Title: <p> tags Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- #

tags * Anonymous * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltpgt-tags/) * Why does word press add in tags everywhere!! For example, in my latest post, what *I* put was:

some stuff here
blah blah and some more stuff… anyways, WP automatically changed it so now it looks like:
some stuff here
Now my code doesn’t validate and I don’t know how to get rid of those extra and
tags because they aren’t there when I go to edit the post… can someone help me out here? Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltpgt-tags/#post-118408) * Link to your site and the post in question * Thread Starter Anonymous * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltpgt-tags/#post-118409) * … it converted the p tags… here is my post again… Why does word press add in( p) tags everywhere!! For example, in my latest post, what *I* put was:
some stuff here
(p) blah blah (p) and some more stuff… anyways, WP automatically changed it so now it looks like: (p)
some stuff here (/p) Now my code doesn’t validate and I don’t know how to get rid of those extra (p) and
tags because they aren’t there when I go to edit the post… can someone help me out here? * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltpgt-tags/#post-118411) * You must have missed my post: – Link to your site and the post in question ? We can then see the problem in situ and better advise. If you want wp not to do this: [http://wordpress.org/support/?action=search&searchFor=autop](http://wordpress.org/support/?action=search&searchFor=autop) * Thread Starter Anonymous * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltpgt-tags/#post-118416) * [http://blue-starz.net](http://blue-starz.net) and it is the first post on the page. * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltpgt-tags/#post-118422) * I do not think that you can throw the validation faults at WP. You aren’t sending the correct information to the browser. You seem to have done something to The Loop or otherwise altered the output which causes it to fail. Unless the validator can correctly read how to intepret the code, it’s hard to help – that info must be there. That said, it’s a repetition error in the main so the errors will decrease rapidly once the cause is found. * Thread Starter Anonymous * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltpgt-tags/#post-118426) * Well, I just did the auto format hack and that cut down on a lot of my errors… including the one i was questioning… now it’s just a matter of me learning the proper order of nesting tags for XHTML. Thanks for the link! Lindsay * [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/) * (@beel) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltpgt-tags/#post-118427) * The center tag is deprecated, use something like
* [Ryan Duff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanduff/) * (@ryanduff) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltpgt-tags/#post-118443) * Right above the reply box… ” Put code in between `backticks`. “ Must have missed that. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘

tags’ is closed to new replies. * 8 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [Ryan Duff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanduff/) * Last activity: [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltpgt-tags/#post-118443) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics