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Stop Wordpress from automatically inserting paragraph tags

Posted in Tips, tricks & tools on Apr 18th, 2009

7 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’); ?>

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?

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