How to remove extra <p> </p> tags in wordpress post and pages?

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1. Please use this line of code instead of the_content(); / the_excerpt(); then it will works fine.

   for content

   <?php remove_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop' ); the_content(); ?>
   

   for excerpt

   <?php remove_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'wpautop' ); the_content(); ?>
   

   Hope so it will help. Thanks.

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2. In PHP, wherever you have echo get_the_content($params) posted (maybe just content.php, depends on theme), do:

   echo preg_replace(array('<p>','</p>'),array('',''),get_the_content($params),1)
   

   That will replace any occurrences of <p> with the empty string ''; likewise for </p>.

   Doing this will not matter whether you author the content in HTML or Visual modes, if it’s there, it’ll remove it; if not, it won’t break it.

   If you just don’t like the style wherever you have <p></p> tags, then post p{} from style.css, and describe how you want it to look – is it the gap between paragraphs you want smaller or bigger, for example?

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3. Please try with below code:

   remove_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop' );
   
                      OR
   
   remove_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'wpautop' );
   

   It will remove all extra <p> tags from content.

   Thanks!

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