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Stop Wordpress from automatically inserting paragraph tags

Posted in Tips, tricks & tools12 Comments12 Comments

Wordpress paragraph tags

By default, Wordpress automatically inserts paragraph tags all over the place when displaying ‘the_content’ – this often gets in the way when you’re trying to space out your text, and also creates validation issues (inserting implicit <p>). If you want to strip the automatically inserted paragraph tags from your content, simply insert this line in your template file above ‘the_content’ tag:
<?php remove_filter (‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’); ?>
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Comments

Jason

June 9, 2009

You are a SAINT for posting this.

Thank you!

Steven Johnstone

November 25, 2009

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

Bryan

December 5, 2009

awesome thank you!

Chiefs Hockey

December 17, 2009

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

Chiefs Hockey

Phonde

December 28, 2009

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

David Tierney

January 6, 2010

Thanks. Sometimes the little things make a big difference.

Ben Carlson

January 20, 2010

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

JR Oakes

May 7, 2010

I think I have a new best friend….

Shredmistress

May 12, 2010

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.

pete

May 12, 2010

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

Bill

July 10, 2010

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.

Juan Pablo

July 12, 2010

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

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