Issues with wp-contact-form and WordPress 2.1

Instead of using the plugin to provide the form, I tried entering the form code directly into the page. Then, I get a leading <p> inserted before each label or textarea.

For instance, I enter the following when I edit the page…

<div class="contactleft"><label for="wpcf_your_name">Your Name: </label></div>

But when I visit the page, the code looks like…

<div class="contactleft"><label for="wpcf_email">Your Email:</label></div>

I get the feeling that wp 2.1 is trying to help by reformatting the xhtml for me, but it ain’t working out. (And I did turn off “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically”)

Any thoughts? Is there a way to make wordpress spit out the page untouched?

I have nothing new to add —- wait, no, see below. Additional datapoint — besides the fact that I’m dealing with the same issue.

I’ve been customizing the contact form to make a sign up sheet, with more form elements. I discovered this — in a tweaked version of wp-contact-form v. 1.4.3 But I’ve got a “clean” install of both 1.4.3 and contact form ][ on other sites. Notice the same phenomenon there, too.

Hm. I set this up on a site using an older version of Ryan Duff’s plugin, and also using an older version of WordPress. Same phenom: weird or
tags that don’t seem to belong there.

That’s an argument against it having anything to do with latest wordpress.

The fix, according to the above-linked page, is to put this code below line 66 in your wp-includes/formatting.php file

$pee = preg_replace( '|(</div[>]*>s*)</p>|', "</p>$1", $pee );

I just did that, and now my <p> tags are balanced. heh. Next thing for me to figure out is how to get rid of them altogether.

Also discussed here and here.

I’m having similar issues with WP 2.1 not rendering XHTML correctly, and I don’t have either of these plugins installed.

so I don’t think its the plugin itself thats the problem.