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Remove the `p` Paragraph Tags From Author Description in WordPress

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Since WordPress 4.9 by default WordPress adds paragraph tags <p></p> to the author descriptions. This sometimes breaks your theme styles.

Stop this by adding the following to your functions.php file.

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UPDATE: Looks like the changes have been reverted. Take a look.

Founder & CEO of ⌘ Command Code, the most used coding agent for open models: 160K+ users, 50K+ paying customers. Founded Langbase (AI cloud for agents with memory & tools).

"What an awesome example for developers." — Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, on my NASA Ingenuity code.

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Ex VP DevRel & DevTools at RapidAPI · Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB) founding member · OpenAPI Business Governing Board, Linux Foundation · SF DevNetwork AI/ML Advisory Board · Angel investor (Replit, Resend, Daytona, Gumroad and you?).

Award-winning open source engineering leader: 300+ projects, 50–100M downloads a year, including Shades of Purple (5M+ developers) and corona-cli (10B+ queries).

Taught 217K+ developers via NodeCLI.com and VSCode.pro. 160+ talks. Blogging since 2000, billions of views.

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Comments 4
  • Jesus Maceira
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    Jesus Maceira Jesus Maceira

    Reply Author

    You are a Jedi Master!
    Thanks for this fix!


  • Sophia
    Posted on

    Sophia Sophia

    Reply Author

    This worked for me. Thanks so much!


  • dert
    Posted on

    dert dert

    Reply Author

    hi,

    how to remove p tags from category description woocommerce

    thanks