Wordpress - remove <p> tags from the_content

Wordpress automatically ads the <p> tags to the content. So it shows up while loading the content. This is with the filter wpautop. So we will remove this filter for the image post type only. You can manage this by adding the following code in functions.php file.

// Add the filter to manage the p tags
add_filter( 'the_content', 'wti_remove_autop_for_image', 0 );

function wti_remove_autop_for_image( $content )
{
     global $post;

     // Check for single page and image post type and remove
     if ( is_single() && $post->post_type == 'image' )
          remove_filter('the_content', 'wpautop');

     return $content;
}

is_single() checks if a single post is being displayed.

If this post type is called "image", you can create a single template to handle the display of just the image post type.

Just copy your 'single.php' file and rename the copy 'single-image.php'. Now you can control just the image posts. To strip out tags, I like to use the strip_tags() function. If you print the content of the post with the_content() it already applies the content filter, wrapping lines in <p> tags.

Here is an example of how you could get the content of your image without the tags:

$imageContent = get_the_content();
$stripped = strip_tags($imageContent, '<p> <a>'); //replace <p> and <a> with whatever tags you want to keep after the strip
echo $stripped;

Hope this helps!

By default, WordPress adds paragraph

tags to category descriptions. Stop this by adding the following to your functions.php file

// Remove p tags from category description
remove_filter('term_description','wpautop');

Simple and easy (codeless).

Thank you