Title: Stop WordPress Messing with code Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Stop WordPress Messing with code * [mattyk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyk/) * (@mattyk) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-wordpress-messing-with-code/) * Hi all * I know that I shouldn’t really have my own code within a post. I know that for every one of my divs that I add I should create a way for content editors to add that div. so PLEASE hear me out before before telling me I’m doing it all wrong (which someone elses post from a few years back degenerated into) * I have a website and I’ve built the HTML in an editor. It’s much easier that way and I was writing / designing on the fly, on a limited budget so could not spend the time planning out adding to the default WP editor features. * This contains code that are basically hooks for CSS to add in call out boxes, pull quotes, columns, change styles etc etc. * What I’d like to be able to do is simply paste that code into the code view of wordpress. Then if the client has a few typos they can change them in the visual view. If they want to move whole sentences around they’d need to call me and I’d do it – otherwise they could delete end and beginning DIVs. * The problem is that whenever I have a DIV, WP enteres an empty P. * Unless I removed all the white space before pasting the code in, is there any way of disabling this. If I disable all

then when the client creates posts they would have to add all those by hand. * Perhaps there is a better way of going about it? Or perhaps its a flat “NO” but I’d appreciated any thoughts on this. * Maybe I can use remove_filter (‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’) on pages but have it enabled for posts? * Much appreciated Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/) * (@vtxyzzy) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-wordpress-messing-with-code/#post-2701695) * The [wpautop control](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpautop-control/) plugin might be useful. * You should also look at the [CKEditor](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ckeditor-for-wordpress/) plugin. Many people find it better than TinyMCE * Thread Starter [mattyk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyk/) * (@mattyk) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-wordpress-messing-with-code/#post-2701743) * Thanks for this – instead of using a plugin I thought I’d look into disabling wpautop for pages only. * However, strangely adding this gets rid of all

s even when I type them in. I’m sure this wasn’t happening yesterday. So if I’m in the code view, I type a

around some text, move to visual editor, then back to html editor the < p>s have been stripped. Am I doing something wrong or is this what the wpautop filter does? * Much appreciated. * [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/) * (@vtxyzzy) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-wordpress-messing-with-code/#post-2701768) * I am not sure why that is happening. I really don’t use TinyMCE very much. I either use [CKEditor](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ckeditor-for-wordpress/) or add [Ultimate TinyMCE](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-tinymce/). Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘Stop WordPress Messing with code’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 3 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/) * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-wordpress-messing-with-code/#post-2701768) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics