Remove auto added <p> from a page that has no literal content (uses shortcodes)

I have a WordPress powered website that on the homepage uses a static page with nothing but shortcodes to generate the content.

The page gets these shortcodes by setting the front page to a static page and using the_content(); on page.php. The page content has no spaces, only shortcodes, so looks something like this:


[content-shortcode blah blah][more content-shortcode blah blah]


It all works fine, except that WordPress adds an empty `<p></p>` before the shortcodes code and another P /P at the end of all the shortcodes code (Nothing in between shortcodes).

How can I remove them? I do not want to disable the global wpautop removal function though, as it can be useful for some users, I only want to remove the first and last P's that appear on the homepage.

There are various functions aside from `wpautop()` that [filter post content][1], such as `force_balance_tags()`, which was designed to balance bad HTML coming in via the editor.

They're mostly defined in [formatting.php][2], where you can see the various code in source.

Removal of these filters can be as simple as one line, as you point out:

`remove_filter('the_content', 'wpautop');`

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3. [Disable wpautop Plugin][4]

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Try this(paste this code somewhere in `functions.php`):

function shortcode_empty_paragraph_fix($content){
$array = array (
'<p>[' => '[',
']</p>' => ']',
']<br />' => ']'
);

$content = strtr($content, $array);
return $content;
}

add_filter('the_content', 'shortcode_empty_paragraph_fix');

Since you want to only remove `<p>` tags on the home page, add the code below to your `functions.php` file:


add_action('pre_get_posts', 'remove_autop_from_home');
function remove_autop_from_home() {
// check to see if we are on the home page
if(is_home()) {
remove_filter('the_content', 'wpautop');
}
}

There are a few things you can try.

You can pospone the `wp_autop` because it processes before the shortcode output:

remove_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop' );
add_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop' , 12);

Or use the [`cleanup_shortcode_fix()`](

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) function that should help with your issue:

function cleanup_shortcode_fix($content) {
$array = array('<p>[' => '[', ']</p>' => ']', ']<br />' => ']', ']<br>' => ']');
$content = strtr($content, $array);
return $content;
}

add_filter('the_content', 'cleanup_shortcode_fix');
$string = preg_replace_('/<p>s*</p>/', '', $string);
add_filter('the_content', 'cleanup_shortcode_fix', 1);

jQuery('p:empty').remove();
Also you can use JS. Above code will help you to remove all empty p tag from the page