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1. revje
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hey there :)

   I'm just starting to figure out Wordpress and I already bumped into an oldschool CMS-thing! Paragraphs where I don't want them! ;)

   In 'the_content' there appears to be a <p> tag (and a </p> one of course) and I'd like to know the file where it puts the tags in the var. I've been searching among some files like edit-form.php to post.js

   Goal: If the content would be "Hello world", having <?php the_content(); ?> print "Hello world" rather than "<p>Hello world</p>".

   Might be I'm thinking too complex for it atm, might be it ain't that easy - anyone who wants to help me out? :)

2. TaxPolicy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I want to accomplish exactly the same thing. Have read through the_content() and the functions it calls, and anything they call, ... and I can't find the place where the <p>, </p> get injected. Looking forward to seeing a solution posted...

   - Mike
   [ admin for the tax policy blog on optimalportfolio.net ]

3. RoseCitySister
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You can turn off the visual editor in your profile, but what I would do is enclose the content in div tags. WordPress used to replace <div> with <p> but 2.5 fixed that.

4. revje
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks for the tip RoseCitySister :) Imma try that, 'tho I will keep searching a bit for the part where it's added to the_content. I'm a huge fan of minimalism ^^

   ps: If anyone knows where the <p>-tag is added, please do still reply. Thanks! :)

5. TaxPolicy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   RoseCitySister,

   I looked at the post content in HTML mode - it doesn't have leading <p>'s or trailing </p>'s. They're being injected by either WordPress or the Theme.

   -Mike
   [sig moderated. please don't]

6. revje
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Problem sort of fixed through adding the <div>-tags around <?php the_content() ?>. I guess I'll have to stop being so strict on my sourcecode. I always like to have the smallest bit of HTML in my page, and have it totally designed by CSS. (For obvious reasons and also as a training for myself)

   So, confirmed that the div-fix works (: Thanks again.

   @TaxPolicy, try to add <div></div> around <?php the_content() ?> in your theme's HTML. It's not totally the answer I was looking for tbh, but for the design/looks of it it works like a charm.

   Cheers :)

7. TaxPolicy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Revje,

   I think I know why Wordpress wants (needs) <p> around the content... When you have multiple paragraphs in the post content, you need them delimited from each other. I posted code from index.php and style.css below... Probably need to get control of the spacing before and/or after the content in some other way - the question is how?

   -Mike
   -------------------------------------
   <div class="post-author">
   <?php _e('By '); the_author(); ?>
   </div>

   <div class="post-content">
   <?php the_content(__('Read the rest of this entry »')); ?>
   </div>

   <div class="post-metadata">
   <?php _e('Posted in '); the_category(', '); ?> |
   <?php edit_post_link(__('Edit'),'',' |'); ?>
   <?php comments_popup_link(__('No Comments'), __('1 Comment'), __('% Comments')); ?>
   </div>
   .......................................................................
   the CSS looks like:
   .post-author {
   font-size:8pt;
   color:#003366;
   background-color: #FFFFFF;
   /* margin-bottom:3em; orig - removal has no effect */
   margin-bottom:1em;
   }
   .post-content, .comment-content {
   font-size:10pt;
   color:#333333;
   }
   .post-metadata {
   text-align:center; /* my addition - no effect */
   font-size:8pt;
   color:#003366;
   background-color: #FFFFFF;
   /* padding-left:3em; orig - removal has no effect*/
   }
   .......................................................................
   The resulting code looks like:

   <div class="post-author">By {username}</div>
   <div class="post-content">
   <p>post content paragraph1...</p>
   <p>post content paragraph2...</p>
   </div>
   <div class="post-metadata">
   Posted in ...
   </div>

8. Norke
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I know it's resolved already, but this would have been a better solution:

   In stead of using <?php the_content(); ?> you could have used <?php echo get_the_content(); ?> That returns without the p tag.

9. mynetweblogs
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Does using <?php echo get_the_content(); ?> have any negative effect like extra load time or hitting the server more?

10. kevinlanteri
    Member
    Posted 6 months ago #

    For other peoples that might be looking for a similar solution without having to touch the_content() (for plugin issue or so...),
    open functions.php on your theme, or create one, and put this single line of code:

    remove_filter ('the_content', 'wpautop');

    it'll remove the whole wordpress auto-formatting, but that it's all or nothing, so use carefully

    another (cool and clean) solutions might be to used alex king's WP Unformatted

    hope it'll help...
    KL

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