I am tired of WordPress's horrible HTML editor and have decided to write all my html in Notepad++ and then just copy it over. However, simple line breaks "\n" that would be normally ignored in html are converted to <br /> tags. I have disabled the visual editor, so everything I save should be the exact html that is presented. But it's not. how do I stop wordpress from converting my html?

I am tired of WordPress's horrible HTML editor and have decided to write all my html in Notepad++ and then just copy it over. However, simple line breaks "\n" that would be normally ignored in html are converted to <br /> tags. I have disabled the visual editor, so everything I save should be the exact html that is presented. But it's not. how do I stop wordpress from converting my html?

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• Well, the <br /> tag is exactly a line break in HTML. If you use line breaks in Notepad++ to create new paragraph just make two line breaks, WordPress will end the previous and begin a new paragraph. If you don't want line breaks in your post then why did you make them when writing the post in Notepad++? – Mateusz Hajdziony Commented Nov 19, 2012 at 1:06

2 Answers 2

That's handled by a filter called wpautop (declared in wp-includes/formatting.php, line 189).

You can remove it with this:

remove_filter('the_content', 'wpautop');

Toggle wpautop plugin.

It's the most-popular solution I found, and works well for me. Above plugin page shows 10,000+ installs and 100% 5-star ratings (23 of them) as of 2016-05-21.

The description of the above plugin page:

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 help with CSS styling.

jlengstorf's answer does not appear to apply to my WordPress 4.x installs.