Stop WordPress automatically showing tags

Question

Wordpress automatically generate lot of unwanted

tags every where. Even the img tag also wrap by these

t

Answer 1

There are lots of plugin to disable autop in WordPress or you can use following filter to remove autop:

remove_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop' );

However, if you need to style and format content from wp-editor, you will not be able to do so if you have removed autop.

If you want to continue using autop functionality but want to remove empty p tag you can do it using jQuery.

I am able to remove unwanted empty p tags using following codes:

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
    $ = jQuery; 
    $('p').each(function() {
    var $this = $(this);
    if($this.html().replace(/\s| /g, '').length == 0)
        $this.remove();
}); 

});