How to remove the <p>’s from the_content?

  • Hey there ??

    I’m just starting to figure out WordPress and I already bumped into an oldschool CMS-thing! Paragraphs where I don’t want them! ??

    In ‘the_content’ there appears to be a <p> tag (and a </p> one of course) and I’d like to know the file where it puts the tags in the var. I’ve been searching among some files like edit-form.php to post.js

    Goal: If the content would be “Hello world”, having <?php the_content(); ?> print “Hello world” rather than “<p>Hello world</p>”.

    Might be I’m thinking too complex for it atm, might be it ain’t that easy – anyone who wants to help me out? ??

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  • I want to accomplish exactly the same thing. Have read through the_content() and the functions it calls, and anything they call, … and I can’t find the place where the <p>, </p> get injected. Looking forward to seeing a solution posted…

    – Mike
    [ admin for the tax policy blog on optimalportfolio.net ]

    You can turn off the visual editor in your profile, but what I would do is enclose the content in div tags. WordPress used to replace <div> with <p> but 2.5 fixed that.

    Thread Starter Peter Griffin

    (@revje)

    Thanks for the tip RoseCitySister ?? Imma try that, ‘tho I will keep searching a bit for the part where it’s added to the_content. I’m a huge fan of minimalism ^^

    ps: If anyone knows where the <p>-tag is added, please do still reply. Thanks! ??

    RoseCitySister,

    I looked at the post content in HTML mode – it doesn’t have leading <p>’s or trailing </p>’s. They’re being injected by either WordPress or the Theme.

    -Mike
    [sig moderated. please don’t]

    Thread Starter Peter Griffin

    (@revje)

    Problem sort of fixed through adding the <div>-tags around <?php the_content() ?>. I guess I’ll have to stop being so strict on my sourcecode. I always like to have the smallest bit of HTML in my page, and have it totally designed by CSS. (For obvious reasons and also as a training for myself)

    So, confirmed that the div-fix works (: Thanks again.

    @taxpolicy, try to add <div></div> around <?php the_content() ?> in your theme’s HTML. It’s not totally the answer I was looking for tbh, but for the design/looks of it it works like a charm.

    Cheers ??

    Revje,

    I think I know why WordPress wants (needs) <p> around the content… When you have multiple paragraphs in the post content, you need them delimited from each other. I posted code from index.php and style.css below… Probably need to get control of the spacing before and/or after the content in some other way – the question is how?

    -Mike
    ————————————-
    <div class=”post-author”>
    <?php _e(‘By ‘); the_author(); ?>
    </div>

    <div class=”post-content”>
    <?php the_content(__(‘Read the rest of this entry »’)); ?>
    </div>

    <div class=”post-metadata”>
    <?php _e(‘Posted in ‘); the_category(‘, ‘); ?> |
    <?php edit_post_link(__(‘Edit’),”,’ |‘); ?>
    <?php comments_popup_link(__(‘No Comments’), __(‘1 Comment’), __(‘% Comments’)); ?>
    </div>
    ……………………………………………………………..
    the CSS looks like:
    .post-author {
    font-size:8pt;
    color:#003366;
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
    /* margin-bottom:3em; orig – removal has no effect */
    margin-bottom:1em;
    }
    .post-content, .comment-content {
    font-size:10pt;
    color:#333333;
    }
    .post-metadata {
    text-align:center; /* my addition – no effect */
    font-size:8pt;
    color:#003366;
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
    /* padding-left:3em; orig – removal has no effect*/
    }
    ……………………………………………………………..
    The resulting code looks like:

    <div class=”post-author”>By {username}</div>
    <div class=”post-content”>
    <p>post content paragraph1…</p>
    <p>post content paragraph2…</p>
    </div>
    <div class=”post-metadata”>
    Posted in …
    </div>

    I know it’s resolved already, but this would have been a better solution:

    In stead of using <?php the_content(); ?> you could have used <?php echo get_the_content(); ?> That returns without the p tag.

    Does using <?php echo get_the_content(); ?> have any negative effect like extra load time or hitting the server more?

    For other peoples that might be looking for a similar solution without having to touch the_content() (for plugin issue or so…),
    open functions.php on your theme, or create one, and put this single line of code:

    remove_filter ('the_content', 'wpautop');

    it’ll remove the whole wordpress auto-formatting, but that it’s all or nothing, so use carefully

    another (cool and clean) solutions might be to used alex king’s WP Unformatted

    hope it’ll help…
    KL

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