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Empty P Tag

Description

This plugin remove extra p and br tags from the_content, the_excerpt and widget_text_content.

Installation

To install “empty p tag” using the built-in plugin installer:

1. Go to Plugins > Add New.
2. Type in "empty p tag" in Search Plugins box or click a tag link below the screen.
3. find the "empty p tag Plugin" in the list.
4. Click Install Now to install the WordPress Plugin.

To install empty p tag manually:

  1. Download your WordPress Plugin to your desktop.
  2. If downloaded as a zip archive, extract the Plugin folder to your desktop.
  3. With your FTP program, upload the Plugin folder to the wp-content/plugins folder in your WordPress directory online.
  4. Go to Plugins screen and find the “empty p tag Plugin” in the list.
  5. Click Activate to activate it.

FAQ

How do Plugin turn off automatic p, br for a post?

After plugin activation, WordPress will no longer attempt to add <p> and <br> tags to your posts (so you’ll be responsible for adding these yourself).

I upgraded the plugin and it lost my default settings!

No, it didn’t. Disable and re-enable the plugin and the setting should be updated to the new setting.

Reviews

19 June 2020
I tried this as a last resort to try to improve the formatting of my commenting system, wpDiscuz (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpdiscuz/), which by the way is great! Unfortunately in my case (because I need to select only one or two words sometimes) it kept adding <p> tags to the text, which added line breaks and unwanted spacing. This plugin solved that problem!
11 October 2017 1 reply
I love this plugin. It really work fine.
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Contributors and Developers

“Empty P Tag” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Change Log

2.0.1

  • Thired released
  • Added feature to remove for ‘whitespace’ with p tag.

1.0.1

  • Second released
  • Added ‘preg_replace’ function to remove Empty tag.

1.0.0

  • First released
  • Basic Plugin