Title: Suggestion: remove code rewriting from WP Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Suggestion: remove code rewriting from WP * [Hulk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hulk/) * (@hulk) * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suggestion-remove-code-rewriting-from-wp/) * I’ve dealt with this issue on multiple versions of WP, not just this latest one. WP insists on rewriting code, changing
tags to

tags. The

tag seems to be completely unusable. * I recently fixed the
re-write using the information in this post: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/102799?replies=18](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/102799?replies=18) … but it seems like this kind of fix should be unnecessary. * I realize that many WP users don’t want to deal with code. But CHANGING code makes WP an overly protective nanny. * I create web sites for a living. More and more frequently, clients are asking for web sites that they can edit. There needs to be some way that I can add in code such as
for the formatting power, while still allowing my clients to use the visual editor. Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) * [Rove](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rove/) * (@rove) * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suggestion-remove-code-rewriting-from-wp/#post-587666) * I second that. In my opinion it should be an option to turn code rewrite off completely. Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) The topic ‘Suggestion: remove code rewriting from WP’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [div](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/div/) * In: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/) * 1 reply * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Rove](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rove/) * Last activity: [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suggestion-remove-code-rewriting-from-wp/#post-587666) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics