Title: WordPress hates nice code
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# WordPress hates nice code

 *  [starlight_design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/starlight_design/)
 * (@starlight_design)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-hates-nice-code/)
 * Why does WP constantly change code?
 * We just migrated a site and looking at the pages, I can see all my links have
   lost their format on a large number of pages. Viewing the source shows <p> tags
   around everything, though they’re not there when I edit the page from within 
   WP. Still, regardless of the <p> tags, ALL my links are now unformatted.
 * Example:
 * `<a class="question" name="1"><h4>&nbsp;</h4></a>`
 * is now:
 *     ```
       <a class="question" name="1"></a>
       <h4></h4>
       <a class="question" name="1"></a>
   
       &nbsp;
       ```
   
 * and:
 * `<a class="faq" name="2">Why is distance learning so popular?</a>`
 * has been changed to:
 * `<a class="faq" name="2"></a>Why is distance learning so popular?`
 * I have a plug-in that is supposed to stop WP from changing code, but apparently
   it’s not working. I literally have hundreds of these to fix now.
 * Does anybody have any knowledge about why this is happening and how to prevent
   it?

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-hates-nice-code/#post-5786182)
 * Yeah, WordPress shouldn’t be doing that, and I can’t reproduce the issue on my
   test installation, which leads me to believe that something else is interfering.
 * Try deactivating all plugins. If that resolves the issue, reactivate each one
   individually until you find the cause.
 * If that does not resolve the issue, try switching to the Twenty Fifteen theme
   to rule-out a theme-specific issue (theme functions can interfere like plugins).
 * Also, try upgrading to WordPress 4.1. It’s slim that will be the fix, but my 
   test installation is 4.1 with no problems.

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