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Exclude uploaded files from appearing in the excerpt()

If you manually provide an excerpt for the post WordPress will use the one you provided instead of automatically generating one. Any HTML links you include in your manual excerpt will still be displayed correctly. Or you can leave the links out and just include the text you want. To preserve HTML links in the … Read more

edit formatting.php in a theme so it wont get overwritten

There are no hooks in wpautop(), at all. Given that this is possibly the most complained about function in the WordPress world, it is odd that there are none but there you go. What you will need to do is remove the filter: remove_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’ ); remove_filter( ‘the_excerpt’, ‘wpautop’ ); Create a version that … Read more

return unformatted content in encosing shortcode

The <br /> tags are being added to the content by the wpautop() function. If you run your shortcode before it runs they will not be there. It is added in \wp-includes\default-filters.php with the default priority of 10. add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘myshortcode’, 1 ); function myshortcode( $atts, $content = null ) { return $content; } wpautop() … Read more

How can I prevent WordPress to wrap into a paragragraph

Use shortcode instead of <br class=”clear”>

How can I add custom text styles to the visual text editor?

Assuming that you are using WP 3.2+ and an up-to-date theme, the editor-style.css file should contain the styles for the editor. If you don’t have one, just create it in the same place as style.css The style appear in the Styles dropdown not the paragraph type dropdown that you referenced in the question. This does … Read more

How can I remove line breaks from manually formatted HTML?

Can’t format content of Rich Text Editor in Template

Good question for your first question! Try running the variable through the_contnet Filter – You can use it like this: $editor_value = get_post_meta( $post->ID, “PLUGIN_VALUE”, true ); echo apply_filters( ‘the_content’, htmlspecialchars_decode( $editor_value ) ); I believe what’s happening is that whenever you save your postmeta, it is being escaped as it should and converted to … Read more