Thanks for your quick response Will:
It is difficult to remove the HTML comment tags, line breaks and tabs, since I am actively developing the PHP code and I need to see my code clearly.
We should be able to turn off that feature through-out WP. Tolls that claim to turn them off work only with in the WP page and does not seem to work with the included PHP codes.
I think, I found a work around. I just create a blank WP page called court-types, and I called the associated PHP file at the end of header.php (within the child theme).
Here is the associated code. This does not introduce the unwanted <p> tags.
$currentPage = $post->post_name;
$_POST['currentPage'] = $currentPage;
if ( $currentPage == 'member-types' ) {
require ('app_admin/member_types.php');
} elseif ( $currentPage == 'court-types' ) {
require ('app_admin/court_types.php');
} else {
}
