HTML Comments Getting Wrapped in P Tag

It’s not a bug. You’d need to create a custom callback for wp_list_comments in your theme.

Thanks. Any links to docs that will tell me how to do that?

Have a look at the page I linked to above.

I don’t think esmi understand the problem. mattzellmer is asking about how to remove the <p> tags around the html comments (not the blog user comments). I sometimes put some html comments saying what the <div> block is like

<!-- start of main content -->
<div id='maincontent'>
some other tags or content

</div>
<!-- end of main content -->

After I save this in the editor within wp-admin, WP render my content like this

<p><!-- start of main content --></p>
<div id='maincontent'>
some other tags or content

</div>
<p><!-- end of main content --></p>

This has caused a problem for the layout

[Please post code snippets between backticks or use the code button.]

OK, I found a solution

It was posted here.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/does-the_content-adds-extra-ltpgt-amp-ltbrgt-to-html-comments?replies=8

you have to edit
wp-includes/default-filters.php
and comment out
add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’ );

Thanks for the help zenserve. I appreciate it!

Matt

Rather than editing a core file – meaning that your change will get overwritten every time you upgrade WordPress – I strongly recommend that you add the filter to functions.php in your theme instead:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/wpautop#Disabling_the_filter