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The real question should be are you writing vaild xhtml? Since WP does try to make valid xhtml.

admin panel > Options > Writing?

Do you mean that you want WordPress to keep your HTML and XHTML from either not working or turning into <p> codes?

First, you can try turning off WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically in Admin > Options > Writing. Just make sure you correctly nest everything. If not, running a valdation on your site will catch it. It happens to everyone. Nested lists are a frequent validation breaker. But I assume you know how to check your stuff.

Second, download and install TextControl plugin as it allows for globally or on a per-post basis allow you to control how WP formats your posts.

I sometimes write quick little posts and I don’t want to put them in tags because there is no reason. I want WordPress to take care of it for me, so I set the TextControl options on THAT post to use wpautop and texturize. But for the serious stuff that has containers and formatting issues, I turn off all formating and character formating. Then the HTML displays the page with no problems.

Until I run a validation on the page and found out that I slipped and wrote <il> instead of <li>, which happens to all of us ?? .

Ok, thanks for the Admin > Options > Writing part, I was actually on that page, but I guess I was looking for something a little bit more pronounced.

However, that didn’t exactly do what I wanted. WordPress will still insert tags at every new line, I don’t want it to do that. Will that TextControl plugin do that?

Apparently it yanked out my < p > tag i wrote.

And by “it”, I mean this board.

You mean WP adds all that <p> and <br> and you don’t want that?

Then I guess if you use that TextControl plugin and set it to no formatting, then your post will not be filtered at all.