Contact Form 7 auto added p tags

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1. According to the Contact Form 7 Docs, you can disable “wpautop” for the plugin by placing the following constant in wp-config.php:

   define( 'WPCF7_AUTOP', false );
   

2. If editing wp-config.php is not the solution for you, there’s a handy filter. Put it in your functions.php:

   // Remove <p> and <br/> from Contact Form 7
   add_filter('wpcf7_autop_or_not', '__return_false');
   

3. I would like to say something about this, when we want reduce auto P tag form the we should go with below filter and just write blow code in function.php.

   add_filter('wpcf7_autop_or_not', '__return_false'); 
   

4. I tried many answers but nothing worked so…
   I ended up using simple CSS to specifically target empty P tags
   in the form itself like this:

   .wpcf7-form p:empty { display: none; }
   

   This worked for me and, its a simple solution.

5. Add this in your functions.php file

   function reformat_auto_p_tags($content) {
       $new_content = '';
       $pattern_full = '{([raw].*?[/raw])}is';
       $pattern_contents = '{[raw](.*?)[/raw]}is';
       $pieces = preg_split($pattern_full, $content, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
       foreach ($pieces as $piece) {
           if (preg_match($pattern_contents, $piece, $matches)) {
               $new_content .= $matches[1];
           } else {
               $new_content .= wptexturize(wpautop($piece));
           }
       }
   
       return $new_content;
   }
   
   remove_filter('the_content', 'wpautop');
   remove_filter('the_content', 'wptexturize');
   
   add_filter('the_content', 'reformat_auto_p_tags', 99);
   add_filter('widget_text', 'reformat_auto_p_tags', 99);
   

   Then on your post editor wrap your contact form 7 shortcode with raw shortcode

   e.g.

   [raw][contact-form-7 id="1" title="Contact Us"][/raw]
   

6. This works too. Tested with WordPress 5.7, PHP 7.4, Contact Form 7 v5.4.

   <?php
   add_filter('wpcf7_autop_or_not', false);
   

   Potentially there are situations (old versions of WP, PHP?) where using the __return_false utility function is necessary.

7. There are 2 ways to remove auto added p tags

   1st way is to add constant in wp-config.php file

   define( 'WPCF7_AUTOP', false );
   

   2nd way is to use filter hook. You can add this in functions.php or in the custom plugin.

   add_filter('wpcf7_autop_or_not', '__return_false');
   

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