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July 19, 2016 14:54
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Remove empty <p> tags from Wordpress
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<?php | |
// add this to functions.php | |
//credit goes to: https://gist.github.com/ninnypants/1668216 | |
// removes p tags created by Wordpress | |
add_filter( 'the_content', 'remove_empty_p', 20, 1 ); | |
function remove_empty_p( $content ){ | |
// clean up p tags around block elements | |
$content = preg_replace( array( | |
'#<p>\s*<(div|aside|section|article|header|footer)#', | |
'#</(div|aside|section|article|header|footer)>\s*</p>#', | |
'#</(div|aside|section|article|header|footer)>\s*<br ?/?>#', | |
'#<(div|aside|section|article|header|footer)(.*?)>\s*</p>#', | |
'#<p>\s*</(div|aside|section|article|header|footer)#', | |
), array( | |
'<$1', | |
'</$1>', | |
'</$1>', | |
'<$1$2>', | |
'</$1', | |
), $content ); | |
return preg_replace('#<p>(\s| )*+(<br\s*/*>)*(\s| )*</p>#i', '', $content); | |
} |
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