How to stop auto formatting / p tags?

  • iyasu

    (@iyasu)


    4 years, 9 months ago

    I’ve looked all over the place and tried every solution out there, but I’m still running into this problem.

    Anytime I’m trying to use HTML for my posts and add two <br> tags, WordPress automatically strips the line breaks and wraps my text in <p> tags instead. I’ve already tried adding this code to a custom.php file no avail:

    remove_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop' );
    remove_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'wpautop' );

    I’ve also tried different plugins that claim to fix this issue, and I still can’t seem to get it to work. I’d just like the posts to look exactly how I intend when I use HTML. Nothing added, changed, or stripped.

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by iyasu.
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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    4 years, 9 months ago

    A custom.php file? How and when does that get included? It may be executing too early. You cannot remove something before it had been added 🙂 You may need to place the remove calls in a callback added to a later action. Using “init” with a large priority arg ought to be late enough.

    What editor are you using where you can add break tags? It may be invoking wpautop() before output, which is where “the_content” is applied. There may be another filter to remove.

    FWIW, p tags are more conducive to proper CSS styling than double br tags. IMO you’re better off styling p blocks as you wish than fighting wpautop().

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