It was solved by a coworker. function removebreaks($content) { $content = str_replace(‘<br>’, ”, $content); $content = str_replace(‘<br/>’, ”, $content); $content = str_replace(‘<br />’, ”, $content); $content = str_replace(‘<BR>’, ”, $content); $content = str_replace(‘<BR/>’, ”, $content); $content = str_replace(‘<BR />’, ”, $content); return $content; } add_filter(‘acf_the_content’, ‘removebreaks’);
Why are manually placed paragraph tags being removed? I can’t say for sure. I found one support thread which suggested it was being removed by the editor. My own testing deems this to be untrue. My local development server also doesn’t appear to have any of these problems, except for the insertion of paragraph tags. … Read more
This question has been answered here You need to “add a simple filter function” to functions.php file for the theme via regex.
Since any attribute added to <br> tag, including class names and data-attrs keeps them from stripping, quick and incomplete way could be: function filter_function_name( $content, $post_id ) { $content = str_replace(‘<br>’, ‘<br data-x>’, $content); $content = str_replace(‘<br >’, ‘<br data-x>’, $content); $content = str_replace(‘<br />’, ‘<br data-x>’, $content); $content = str_replace(‘<br/>’, ‘<br data-x>’, $content); return … Read more
You could try this in your functions.php file function disable_wpautop_for_pages(){ if ( is_page()){ remove_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’ ); } } add_action(‘init’, ‘disable_wpautop_for_pages’); I have not tried this. It’s just a guess
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yes, you can deactivate the autop for shortcode via filter add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘shortcode_unautop’ );