WordPress and the wrath of the <p>

I don’t know a way to change that, but why would you want to?

If you don’t like the margins of the p-tag, feel free to change them. Let’s say, your posts are being displayed within in <div class="post"><p>*post-content*</p></div>… in that case you could add something like .post > p { margin: 0; } to your css-file.

yah but again if i want to put a div in there it now becomes invalid markup you can’t have <p><div> :/ thats why i would want to change that.

And again, why would you want to put divs in there? Just for your sense of aesthetics and because you hate p-tags, or is there some reason why you really need it? If the latter, maybe there’s another workaround, which would not require a div.

you can turn off wpautop completely if you like .. theres a few plugins that do it or you can just edit default-filters.php

assuming you are using 2.2:

add_filter('comment_text', 'wpautop', 30); // comments
add_filter('the_content', 'wpautop'); // content

just comment those out as you see fit.

There is also a text control plugin that lets you do this on a post by post basis and also lets you use textile, etc..

You’ll have to hunt around for the plugins,

keywords:
disable wpautop
text control plugin for wordpress