Title: Remove extra formatting
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Remove extra formatting

 *  [kimiko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kimiko/)
 * (@kimiko)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-extra-formatting/)
 * Hello! (^^ )
 * How do I remove the extra formatting tags that WP adds when displays a post? 
   I want to control the use of the P and BR tags myself inside each of the posts.
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  Thread Starter [kimiko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kimiko/)
 * (@kimiko)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-extra-formatting/#post-162090)
 * I tried installing a plugin called PreFormatted that seems to do more damage 
   than good. Is there any way to make WP not touch the actual text I write?
 * I can’t use WP unless I have complete controll of the HTML used in the post body.
   Added tabs and tags will make my blog look really weird, hard to read and will
   invalidate the HTML ^^; I will write all <P></P> and <BR /> myself.
 *  [takuya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takuya/)
 * (@takuya)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-extra-formatting/#post-162094)
 * In the default post page, I think you do not need ,
    tags make spaces between
   each sentense, or paragraph. You only have to double click ENTER button.
 * Try out the WYSIWYG plugin.
    [http://www.wp-plugin.net](http://www.wp-plugin.net)
   or [http://www.wp-plugin.info](http://www.wp-plugin.info). I hope those links
   are correct…;)
 *  Thread Starter [kimiko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kimiko/)
 * (@kimiko)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-extra-formatting/#post-162099)
 * The whole point is that I want to write the complete HTML myself. WYSIWYG isn’t
   the answer to my problem.
 * In addition to putting <br/> and in places I don’t want it to, I also noticed
   that & ‘ and other special characters are turned into HTML entities.. the developers
   should make this “texturizer” or whatever they call it an option you can turn
   on or off.
 * Anyone know what and where to change this feature in the code?
 *  [iand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iand/)
 * (@iand)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-extra-formatting/#post-162100)
 * This thread might help:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=25067](http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=25067)

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 * Last reply from: [iand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iand/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-extra-formatting/#post-162100)
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