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1. miealex
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Every time you post something the_content is shown on your page like this ...

   <p>the_content</p>

   ... even tho you didn't input this into your post.

   How do I remove <p> and </p> from my content? Does anyone know?

   Thanks,
   Alex

2. miealex
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Nobody knows? :/

3. varkenshand
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Two ways:

   the hard way - comment out the autop filter for content in the default filters file. (wp-includes/default-filters.php)

   The better way: install Text Control plugin. Works great for p's and also for quote misery in code. Adds two buttons to your Admin/ Write page.

4. miealex
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   If anyone gets to this post I suggest you go here http://mtdewvirus.com/code/wordpress-plugins/ and get the smallest plugin ever created called Disable WPautop. It is the simplest way it can be done.

   Thanks for replying tho varkenshand ;)

5. waydomatic
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You could always just replace <?php the_content(); ?> with

   <?php echo $wpdb->get_var("SELECT post_content FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = $id");?>.

6. prestogifto
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks for all the suggestions. For the benefit of future users, the waydomatic idea didn't work with the exec-php plugin.

   BUT Disable WPautop works GREAT. Thanks a ton to varkenshand and everyone who gave me input. It was really helpful.

7. spoonervt
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   or if you go into
   wp-includes/default-filters.php

   you can edit around line: 123
   add_filter('the_content', 'wpautop');

   and just comment that out with //
   //add_filter('the_content', 'wpautop');

   voila! no plug in overhead and no more <P> tags messing up your images

8. gspark
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   just curious, why would one want to remove the <p> tags in content ? isn't that the way content should be formated ?

   i've never seen content without the use of paragraph tags or am i missing something here

9. Yeago
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   gspark, you're missing something. =)

   WP inserts Ps in all kinds of places that it just doesn't belong.

10. Yeago
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Another fix.

    http://yeago.net/works/problem-issue-with-wordpress-messing-up-html-with-p-and-br-tags

11. daleyboy50
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    well from this discussion board i tried this
    and just comment that out with //
    //add_filter('the_content', 'wpautop');

    then this..
    http://yeago.net/works/problem-issue-with-wordpress-messing-up-html-with-p-and-br-tags

    then this
    http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/disable-wpautop/

    and still have the problem.. any other suggestions would be appreciated.. one that works with the 2.2 and above?! couple of these are very dated and wordpress has changed since..

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