Toggle wpautop
Easily disable the default wpautop filter on a post by post basis.
4.9(32 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 4 years agoAs of April 2026, Toggle wpautop is a WordPress editor plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 32 reviews. It has been downloaded 108K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Elementor Website Builder – more than….
4.9/532 reviews
10K+active installs
108K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
Note: This plugin does not support the block editor but should continue to work without issue when using it with custom post types and the Classic Editor Plugin.
Before WordPress displays a post’s content, the content gets passed through multiple filters to ensure that it safely appears how you enter it within the editor.
One of these filters is wpautop, which replaces double line breaks with <p> tags, and single line breaks with <br /> tags. However, this filter sometimes causes issues when you are inputting a lot of HTML markup in the post editor.
This plugin displays a checkbox in the publish meta box of the post edit screen that disables the wpautop filter for that post.
Also adds a ‘wpautop’, or ‘no-wpautop’ class to the post_class filter to…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Top Tier Plugin
by ximbor·4 years ago
Thank you for taking the time to create such an awesome plugin 🙂 finally those auto <p> tags are gone!
Excelente Plugin
by w3573r·5 years ago
Excelente Plugin
I doesn’t work with last wordpress version
by juanmacampora·5 years ago
Plugin need to be updated because it doesn’t work with last wordpress version. I would like to use it but I am not able. Please, let me know how to overcome this problem.
- This topic was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by juanmacampora.
Handy for to prevent HTML from being messed up
by Dave Romsey (goto10)·7 years ago
wpautop adds p and br tags to HTML which can really mess things up. This plugin allows authors to disable the wpautop filter when necessary.
Awesome. Should be builtin to WP.
by neotrope·7 years ago
Solves inherent flaw in WP for editing custom web pages where WP puts in tags you don’t want (try doing a definition list with double line breaks, and see how it breaks that with paragraph tags — this fixes stuff like that).
Allows for clean migration of existing static page HTML to WP, without having to fix the nanny-fixes WP tries to put in without asking and which are then hidden from you.
Simply priceless plugin for webdev.
If you don’t know why this is so awesome, you likely don’t need it.
If you do know, you know why you must have it!
And FYI: works with PHP 7.2 as of May 2018.
Download Trends
Today: 19Yesterday: 20This week: 103Period total: 6K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 5.7.15 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.3
90.5%
v1.2
8.9%
v1.1
0.6%
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Changelog
1.3.0
- Fixed minor sanitization of within the admin
- Fixed minor WPCS and PHPCS notices
- Updated plugin branding for .org
- Updated readme to link to the Classic Editor Plugin
- Updated deployment process to make releases easier
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