No Excerpt P Plugin

 By: Ben Partch » On: August 16th, 2007

A few months back I wanted a way to remove the <p></p> tags from around “the_excerpt” when it is displayed in one of my WordPress blogs.

So I asked Amit who knows just about everything WordPress does, and/or what can be done with it. It took him about 30 seconds to come up with a nifty little plug in that does just what I wanted.

Thanks, Amit!

He did not seem as excited with it as I was, but I see that quite a few people have been asking for this same request at the WordPress support forums so I have decided to just create a page for it in hopes that maybe others will find it as useful, as I have.

Download
no-excerpt-p.zip

Installation

1. Unzip
2. Upload to: http://yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/
3. Goto: http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/plugins.php
4. Activate the plugin

Your good to go.

Of course, if you want the <p> tags around some “excerpts” and not around others you can always add the tags manually.

<p><?php the_excerpt() ?></p>

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23 Responses to “No Excerpt P Plugin”

1. Minnehaha Project » Blog Archive » Plugins Used in Minnehaha  Says:
   November 7th, 2007 at 7:45 pm

   [...] Markup: Cleanly display code examples in a post. Get Recent Comments: Display most recent comments. No-Excerpt P: Removes <p></p> tags from around “the_excerpt” Popularity Contest: List [...]

2. Andrew Bronson  Says:
   November 28th, 2007 at 2:01 am

   haha awesome guys, been trying to work this out for past couple hours

3. Il tag the_excerpt di Wordpress - TomStardust.com  Says:
   June 12th, 2008 at 6:05 am

   [...] <p></p> intorno a the_excerpt per poter gestire tutto dal template. Il plugin si chiama No Excerpt P, e non fa altro che eliminare la funzione wpautop. In questo modo è possibile inserire il testo [...]

4. tom  Says:
   August 9th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

   Cool, that is working like a charme.
   Thankd alot man

5. Yahoo Buzz Traffic Strategy - Manuel Viloria.com  Says:
   August 21st, 2008 at 9:23 pm

   [...] No Excerpt P Plugin — removes those <p> tags that appear in the default WordPress blog excerpts. Based on our tests, those P tags result in blank Yahoo! Buzz submit pages. It will be a hassle for those who want to submit your stories to Yahoo! Go ahead and try the buzz buttons on this page and see how it works. [...]

6. Jonny Wright  Says:
   November 1st, 2008 at 8:19 am

   awesome. simply awesome.

7. guvnrDOTcom  Says:
   February 17th, 2009 at 10:35 am

   Nice plugin but, to keep pageload down, just use …

   … right before …

8. guvnrDOTcom  Says:
   February 17th, 2009 at 10:37 am

   OK … will try again!

   just use …

   remove_filter('the_excerpt', 'wpautop');

   …right before…

   the_excerpt();

   (enclosing the two statements in php tags

9. Ben Partch  Says:
   February 17th, 2009 at 2:11 pm

   @guvnrDOTcom That’s what is inside the plug in, so there is no need to edit the theme files, just upload this plugin and activate it.

10. How to remove html paragraphs tags from the Wordpress excerpt | Icon IT - Computer, PC repair, web design, Drogheda, Ireland  Says:
    May 20th, 2009 at 2:14 pm

    [...] the the fix is simple. There is a wordpress plugin specifically written to remove paragrah tags from the_excerp function. Download it, install it and problem [...]

11. Ian Conrad  Says:
    July 8th, 2009 at 7:38 am

    Thank you! This is exactly what we needed, was driving me nuts.

12. Mary J.  Says:
    September 18th, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    You can also just use:
    the_excerpt_rss()

13. Ben Partch  Says:
    September 18th, 2009 at 5:08 pm

    Hey Mary

    Thanks for the tip!!!

14. Adam  Says:
    October 23rd, 2009 at 1:57 am

    Hey, thanks! this is the simplest method for getting rid of those tags around “the_excerpt”.

15. Mary J.  Says:
    January 28th, 2010 at 2:38 pm

    Cool, glad it worked.

16. Sebastian  Says:
    February 11th, 2010 at 8:55 am

    It’s unbelievable, that this Plugin is needed!
    Why has this tag no parameters?
    Thanx a lot!
    A customer wants to begin the excerpt in the same line as the title – a simple wish, I thought. But it is impossible to do with this paragraph-tag…

17. Steve  Says:
    February 16th, 2010 at 8:49 am

    Your download link is broken!

18. Ben Partch  Says:
    February 16th, 2010 at 8:53 am

    Thanks for letting me know. Should be fixed now.

19. Kambar  Says:
    February 26th, 2010 at 8:10 am

    “OK … will try again!

    just use …

    remove_filter(‘the_excerpt’, ‘wpautop’);

    …right before…

    the_excerpt();

    (enclosing the two statements in php tags “

    It worked for me…!!! Thanks dude!!!

20. RIchard  Says:
    March 26th, 2010 at 11:57 am

    just call…

    echo get_the_excerpt();

    …instead of the_excerpt();

    guvnrDOTcom solution didnt work for me.

21. moose harris  Says:
    April 22nd, 2010 at 4:43 pm

    Sweet. This has been bugging me, but it’s so simple, thanks.

22. Brian Gerald  Says:
    July 7th, 2010 at 8:10 pm

    YES! Thank you!

23. Asim  Says:
    July 14th, 2010 at 9:59 am

    Hi, Ben Partch.

    Thankx for uploading and making a post about it.

    This help me a lot in removing the tags from the description of cu3er slider.

    Once again i thank to you and Amit