Title: Has wpautop changed? Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Has wpautop changed? * Resolved [YorkshireLad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yorkshirelad/) * (@yorkshirelad) * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/has-wpautop-changed/) * Hello, * I use `remove_filter('the_excerpt', 'wpautop');` on a couple of sites, one of which is no longer needed and no longer updated.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: * ```

Watch video My excerpt

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

Watch video

My excerpt

``` * I’ve noticed this on another site with different markup. Did I miss something? Was there a syttax change? * Gary Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Thread Starter [YorkshireLad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yorkshirelad/) * (@yorkshirelad) * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/has-wpautop-changed/#post-1639536) * Just to expand on this: have a look at [http://www.leedsunitedladies.com/category/news](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](http://www.leedsunitedladies.com/category/news/page/8) or [http://www.leedsunitedladies.com/category/video](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 * Thread Starter [YorkshireLad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yorkshirelad/) * (@yorkshirelad) * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/has-wpautop-changed/#post-1639556) * 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 * Thread Starter [YorkshireLad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yorkshirelad/) * (@yorkshirelad) * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/has-wpautop-changed/#post-1639561) * 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 * [m_disseny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/m_disseny/) * (@m_disseny) * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/has-wpautop-changed/#post-1639596) * Hey Gary, * just came across the same problem this morning. I was programming a new template and copied/pasted this function from my notes: * `` * 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: * `` * Maybe too obvious, I guess this is not your issue, but hope this helps. * Marc * Thread Starter [YorkshireLad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yorkshirelad/) * (@yorkshirelad) * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/has-wpautop-changed/#post-1639607) * 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 * Thread Starter [YorkshireLad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yorkshirelad/) * (@yorkshirelad) * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/has-wpautop-changed/#post-1639631) * 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 == '

') { $my_excerpt = substr($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 Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘Has wpautop changed?’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [wpautop](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wpautop/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 6 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [YorkshireLad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yorkshirelad/) * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/has-wpautop-changed/#post-1639631) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics