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1. andrej1c
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   When you look at the html of your post or page (or what is stored in $wpdb->posts.post_content), you'll notice that there are no <p>'s but instead just double spaces. Somewhere between when WordPress reads the content from the database and when it displays it on the page, it recreates a <p> from double spaces.

   Why do I need to know? I whipped up a little hack/plugin that adds the TinyMCE editor onto the excerpt field to allow for formatting. All works fine, except for the functionality I described above. For example:

   What I put in:
   First line

   Second line

   Third line

   What gets displayed:
   First line Second line Third line

   Thanks! Any help would be appreciated.

2. whooami
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   wpautop

3. andrej1c
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   whoami,

   That filter is run on both Content and Excerpt. I see no change when I disable the filter (/wp-includes/default-filters.php. I wish you were right though.

   Andrej

4. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Sorry to burst your bubble, but whooami is correct. wpautop is the only filter in the code that adds those P tags to the content. If disabling it did not work for you, then you did not actually disable it correctly or something.

   Are you using page caching, perhaps? WP-Super-Cache?

   Also, it doesn't turn "double spaces" into a P. It turns double line breaks into paragraph markers.

5. andrej1c
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Otto42,

   Thanks for your response. I will look into disabling wpautop another way (other than commenting it out in /wp-includes/default-filters.php which I already tried). Any chance you can suggest a specific approach?

   I'm not using any server-side cache and cleared my browser cache, just to be sure.

   You know what I meant by double-spaces so I'm not sure why you feel the need to correct me.

   Andrej

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