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1. YorkshireLad
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Hello,

   I use
   remove_filter('the_excerpt', 'wpautop');
   on a couple of sites, one of which is no longer needed and no longer updated. On that site, the p tags are correctly removed from the excerpt field like this:

   <div class="entry">
   	<p>	<img src="/wp-content/furniture/Watch_button.png" alt="Watch video" class="watch_inline" />
   	My excerpt</p>
   	</div>

   On another site, with the same images and styles, I get this:

   <div class="entry">
   	<p>	<img src="/wp-content/furniture/Watch_button.png" alt="Watch video" class="watch_inline" />
   	<p>My excerpt</p>
   </p>
   	</div>

   I've noticed this on another site with different markup. Did I miss something? Was there a syttax change?

   Gary

2. YorkshireLad
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Just to expand on this: have a look at http://www.leedsunitedladies.com/category/news

   Notice how the image is above the text; that's because the excerpt is wrapped by unwanted p tags.

   Now look at http://www.leedsunitedladies.com/category/news/page/8 or http://www.leedsunitedladies.com/category/video on the same site - notice how the image and text are in line with each other.

   The image appearance is governed by a bit of php. If the relevant custom field has the value 'yes', show the image; otherwise, carry on and show just the excerpt.

   I'm at a loss as to what has changed, beyond WordPress and my installed plugins (none of which, that I can see, would ever switch wpautop back on).

   Gary

3. YorkshireLad
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Further investigation shows that the errant behaviour is only happening on posts dated later than 18 June 2010.

   I commented out the remove_filter and used the following function:

   `function my_real_excerpt() {
   global $post;
   $bill = $post -> post_excerpt;
   $my_excerpt = substr($bill,3,-5);
   echo $my_excerpt;
   }'

   That works in removing the p tags before and after the excerpt for posts dated later than 18 June, but posts earlier than that don't seem to have any p tags associated with them anymore - so I actually truncate valid characters of my excerpt.

   Coincidentally, WordPress 3.0 came out on 17 June 2010...

   Gary

4. YorkshireLad
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   And yet more investigation - this time of the database itself - shows that all those posts created since the upgrade to 3.0 have paragraph tags inserted into the post_excerpt field in the database. Posts before that time do not.

   Tsk. Will raise a ticket, when I work out how to... it's not wpautop's fault after all...

   Gary

5. m_disseny
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Hey Gary,

   just came across the same problem this morning. I was programming a new template and copied/pasted this function from my notes:

   <?php remove_filter (‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’); ?>

   and it didn't work, I thought it could be a 3.0 bug at first but then I noticed there was a syntax error with the inverted commas. Just changed for this and now works like a charm:

   <?php remove_filter ('the_content', 'wpautop'); ?>

   Maybe too obvious, I guess this is not your issue, but hope this helps.

   Marc

6. YorkshireLad
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Hi Marc,

   Not obvious at all, but I had tried that, just to be on the safe side.

   I'm actually now beginning to wonder if it's related to TinyMCE Excerpt, though I can't see how. Basically, anything created or updated since mid-June is affected. Deactivating the plugin doesn't store the additional paragraph tags, so it's now prime suspect...

   Gary

7. YorkshireLad
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Just to round this off (and not really 'resolved', but I've fixed the problem for me): not having heard from the TinyMCE Excerpt developer, I added the following to my functions.php file, and called it every time I wanted to call the_excerpt()

   function my_real_excerpt() {
   	global $post;
   	$bill = $post -> post_excerpt;
   	$billA = substr($bill,0,3);
   	if ($billA == '<p>') {
   	$my_excerpt = substr($bill,3,-5);
   	echo $my_excerpt; } else { echo $bill; }
   	}

   In other words: get the_excerpt, look at the first three characters; if it's a p tag, strip it and the closing tag, otherwise return what you find.

   Works for me, your mileage may vary.

   Gary

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