How to display the content for given page ID withot the <p></p> wrapper?

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1. You can add this in your functions.php file for instance,

   remove_filter ('the_content',  'wpautop');
   

   Which will remove the paragraph formatting from the_content template tag in all cases.

   Should you have a need for it in the future, you can write;

   <?php wpautop(the_content());?> in your template to add formatting without having to add the filter back.

   Using echo get_the_content(); will by pass the WordPress wpautop filter too.

   Here’s a little function I wrote for you that you can use in your template files (paste the snippet into functions.php and see usage instructions below).

   function custom_content($args = '', $allow = ''){
   
   if ($args == 'alltags') {
   
       $type = the_content();
   
   } elseif ($args == 'notags') {
   
       $type = strip_tags(wpautop(get_the_content()), $allow);
   
   } else {
   
       $type = get_the_content();
   
       }
   
   echo $type;
   
   }
   

   Usage:

   <?php custom_content();?> // no <p> tags, but <a>, <strong>, etc are preserved.
   <?php custom_content('notags');?> // strips all tags from content
   <?php custom_content('notags', '<a>');?> // strips all tags except <a> 
   <?php custom_content('notags', '<a><p><etc..>');?> // strips all tags except <a> & <p> 
   <?php custom_content('alltags');?> // all tags uses the_content();
   

   Now some of this might be redundant but it illustrates how you can create a multipurpose function for use within your templates that can give you some, all or no formatting based upon your situation.

   Note: In case anyone is wondering why wpautop is wrapped around get_the_content above, is due to get_the_content not being passed through the wpautop filter, therefore if you want to use <p> tags in a specified list of allowed tags whilst using the custom notags argument you need to add <p> formatting back with wpautop.

   Alternative for getting the content of a page based on ID and without <p> tags;

   function get_content($id) {
   
       $post = get_page($id);
       $content = apply_filters('get_the_content', $post->post_content);
       echo $content;
   
   } 
   

   Usage:

   <?php get_content(21); ?>
   

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2. You need to remove the wpautop filter ex:

   <?php 
   $id=21; 
   $post = get_page($id); 
   //remove auto p filter
   remove_filter ('the_content','wpautop');
   $content = apply_filters('the_content', $post->post_content); 
   //return the filter for other posts/pages down the road
   add_filter ('the_content','wpautop');
   echo $content;  
   ?>
   

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