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Description

This plugin was born out of a very simple need. Back in the day, when the wpautop filter was really sucky, I got annoyed and turned it off for my blog. However, years later, me (but mostly my co-author, Halfgaar) got equally annoyed by having to manually type in all the angle brackets. I wanted to turn on the filter again, but I didn’t want this to affect all my old posts. Hence this plugin. See this blog post for more history.

Installation

  1. Unzip the plugin in the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

FAQ

Installation Instructions
  1. Unzip the plugin in the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
How do I turn off automatic formatting for a post?

Add a custom field called wpautop to any post. When set to false, no or off, WordPress will no longer attempt to add <p> and <br> tags to your posts (so you’ll be responsible for adding these yourself).

How do I turn on automatic formatting for a post?

You can set the field’s value to true, yes or on if you do want WordPress to use its wpautop filter to add <p> and <br> tags for you. (Of course, this only makes sense if you’ve globally disabled wpautop in the included option screen.)

How do I turn of line-end break insertions?

Set the field’s value to ‘-break’ to just disable the conversion of newlines to <br> tags within paragraphs.

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

Séptémber 3, 2016
I have a premium theme with a lot of plugins activated and this plugin worked right out of the box. Thank you!
Séptémber 3, 2016
Needed to remove pesky break tags from a form, the plugin did it in seconds.
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Contributors & Developers

“wpautop control” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Translate “wpautop control” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

1.6

  • Re-enabled some on/off aliases.
  • Upgrade routine to update old boolean option (wpautop_on_by_default) to new option (wpautop_by_default).

1.5

  • Fixed Markdown in readme.txt plugin documentation.

1.4

  • Jesse Jacobson contributed a new feature, which disables only the conversion of newlines into <br> tags within paragraphs. This is useful, for example, when writing Markdown with a text editor like Vim.

1.3

  • Updated description so that it mentions “angle brackets” instead of “curly braces”.

1.2

  • Improved readme.txt so that usage instructions turn up in the FAQ instead of in Other Notes.

1.1

  • Clarified option screen. It seemed to be causing confusion.
  • Instead of just true/false, you can now also use yes/no or on/off in the wpautop custom field.

1.0

  • First release