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1. danielb
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Let's say I have a post with a block of code between two paragraphs. Here's what I see in the editor (WYSIWYG is disabled):
   

   first paragraph text
   
   <pre>do shell script</pre>
   
   second paragraph text

   When I publish the post, it turns to
   

   <p>first paragraph text</p>
   
   <p><pre>do shell script</pre></p>
   
   <p>second paragraph text</p>

   This is bad because XHTML doesn't allow including PRE (and other block-level elements in P tags.
   If I try to remove extra line breaks between paragraphs and code, on the post page I get such markup:
   

   <p>first paragraph text<br />
   <pre>do shell script</pre><br />
   second paragraph text</p>

   .. which is not better.

   Has anybody faced this issue? Is there a way to make WordPress generate valid markup in such cases without hacking its core files?

   Thanks!

2. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Hi

   The wp-unformatted plugin lets you turn off on a post by post basis WP's tendency to wrap things in <p></p>. You must read the instructions.

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-unformatted/
   Although it says only tested through 2.1, it works fine in 2.7.1

3. danielb
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Thanks for the tip.

   The interesting thing is that when installed this plugin I couldn't get it to work. It was very surprising because it's pretty clear and simple. I thought it may be not working because of one of my other plugins, which improves typography (Typo Lite). When I disabled this plugin, not only WP unformatted started to work, but also the issue with incorrect wrapping of P and CODE was gone. So, I'll contact the author of the plugin and ask him to fix it.

   Thanks again )

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