WordPress has a bad habit of removing or reformatting br and p tags that are entered into posts and pages. It also does some other funky formatting that can be annoying at times.
Well, here’s a way to fix this issue.
Go into the theme editing area of WP admin. Add this code to your functions.php file, and save it.
<?php
function my_formatter($content) {
$new_content = '';
$pattern_full = '{(\[raw\].*?\[/raw\])}is';
$pattern_contents = '{\[raw\](.*?)\[/raw\]}is';
$pieces = preg_split($pattern_full, $content, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
foreach ($pieces as $piece) {
if (preg_match($pattern_contents, $piece, $matches)) {
$new_content .= $matches[1];
} else {
$new_content .= wptexturize(wpautop($piece));
}
}
return $new_content;
}
remove_filter('the_content', 'wpautop');
remove_filter('the_content', 'wptexturize');
add_filter('the_content', 'my_formatter', 99);
?>
Now, when writing a post/page, use [raw][/raw] tags to surround that parts of the post/page that you do not want formatted.
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Adam, thanks for this. It saved me a lot of work this morning.
that doesn’t work in wp3.0.1… :-/
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I’ve come across several different plugins and suggested solutions but this is the one that works best for me.
The other solutions adversely affected all previously created pages that relied on the automatic tags. I only needed to fix certain sections where wordpress would enter a one sided or and throw off my validation.
Using this solution allows me to fix just the areas where automated tags were not opened or closed properly.
Thank you very much.
For the amateurs out there like me, be sure to enter the code mentioned above on the very next line after the final php.
I originally inserted the code after hitting an extra return (space) after the final php and ended up with a white screen whenever I tried to do execute an action in wordpress.
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Or, the simple solution is to uncomment or add the tags you wish to allow (whitelist) in wp-includes/kses.php
Yeah, that works. But, it upgrades can overwrite your changes in kses.php.