Topic Tag: Front-end display

Problem:
I am trying to: get my form to display normally with layouts template as page template. The form shortcode is in the post body. A form showing with extra p and br tags

Solution:
1. To remove extra paragraph tags, please add the following code in your theme’s functions.php file:

remove_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop' );
 add_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop' , 12);
  
add_filter('the_content', 'remove_empty_p', 20, 1);
function remove_empty_p($content){
    $content = force_balance_tags($content);
    return preg_replace('#<p>\s*+(<br\s*/*>)?\s*</p>#i', '', $content);
}

2. You can also try [wpv-noautop] shortcode and place all your content inside this:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#wpv-noautop

Alternate solution used by the client: Formidable plugin has an option to minimize HTML. This stops the extra tags from being generated.

Relevant Documentation:
http://sww.nz/solution-to-wordpress-adding-br-and-p-tags-around-shortcodes/
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#wpv-noautop