Stop WordPress from automatically inserting paragraph tags

You are a SAINT for posting this.

Thank you!

Thank you so much! I spent over five hours searching for answers as to why my perfect XHTML code was failing to validate once included in my WordPress template ‘the_content’ area.

Your one line of code has saved me!

Thanks again
Steven J

awesome thank you!

U r a freggin saint! Searched for this one liner like crazy. Thank you!

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This is brilliant! Can’t say how many times i got my validation messed up because of that!
Thanks a lot.

Thanks. Sometimes the little things make a big difference.

How about only removing the tags surrounding images? Any idea on that?

I think I have a new best friend….

Thank you so much for this advice. I was trying to validate my ‘pages’ and could not figure out why there were random opening tags. I added this code to my page.php template.

Thanks for this post, I googled how to remove tags in wordpress and found your page :D

C’mon… a saint!?

No, this came at a great find in the Google Search…
a demi-God more like :P

nice work, and thanks for the insights, truly helpful, saved one of our latest releases coming out shortly.

great wow super. muchas gracias from BA!
You´re a WP genious. Save my night.
:P

Thanks took me to seconds to find a solution for a 2 hr problem

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! This is the only solution I’ve seen that conditionally allows you to deal with the auto “p” issue. The only other way I’ve seen is to shut it off entirely in wordpress settings, which won’t do as you still want to allow your users to insert paragraphs.

This allows you to address the issue on a per-page/post basis in your theme.

Thanks so much

You are truly amazing! Thank you so much for this post I was looking all over the internet to find the solution to solve this problem but you have helped me in seconds… Thank you so much!

THANK YOU! If there is one thing that drives me about WordPress it was ghost p tags.

This is the best thing since slide bread and two-ply toilet paper.

You sir, are my hero!

You just made my life sooooo much simpler.

Thank you so much! WordPress inserting phantom paragraphs was doing my head in until I found your page.

Thanks for this post. Two years old and it’s still helping!

In case someone else has this problem: I copied directly from the snippet and it didn’t work, because of the quotes. Depending on your editor, you might have to retype the quotes or just type the whole line instead of being lazy (like me).

Benjamin, thank you for your comment. It wasn’t working for me until I deleted and retyped the single quotes in my editor. Now it works.

OMG thank you so much! I was pulling my hair out. And yes, Benjamin is correct. If you cut and paste this code you get “smart” single quotes which will break the code. Replace them with regular single quotes.

Thank you very much … like many others, this has been causing me all kinds of problems. Cheers, Chris

Thank you!! I have been trying to do this for ages.

My problem is that it strips p tags when I’m trying to put them in manually. I’ll try this and maybe since it won’t be putting them in, it will not take mine out?

Thanks