As you know if you’ve been reading One Thing New, yesterday was my birthday, and while I intended to take the weekend off, I wanted to post this quick suggestion for the Wordpress team. With the next release, lets have an easy option for disabling the auto-formatting within posts.
I realize there is a plugin that can disable the wpautop filter for posts, and I have it installed on all of my Wordpress sites. But some unwanted paragraph tags still get through from time to time. I haven’t poked around Wordpress’s guts very much, and I’m not sure how difficult it would be to disable this feature myself. But based on some searches I’ve done in the WP support forums, I know I’m not alone in wanting it done.
Now, before the open source police come to berate me for criticizing a free application, I can assure you that is not what I’m doing. I’m merely suggesting this feature be included in a future release of the platform. I love Wordpress and have started using it on all of my sites. But as a developer who likes to code everything by hand, I would like to see this feature added so that I can have total control over my content.
