Okay, I figured out a scary hack: edit /wp-includes/functions-formatting.php to remove all but the last line of the wpautop function, so it ends up looking like:
function wpautop($pee, $br = 1) {
return $pee;
}
It does really seem like there should be an easier way, though.
I have the same problem. And I found a 3-year old forum post with the same question, and no answers. 🙁
I’ve turned off the WYSIWYG editor both for the default and for my user account and WordPress is still inserting its own BR tags. What gives?
I have the same problem. Has this really been going on for three years and nobody’s responded to it? I’ve turned of the WYSIWYG editor and it doesn’t help.
