Avoiding admin editors tags strip

• kuraga

• May 6, 2020 at 5:05 pm

For stopping removing <p> tags inside WordPress TinyMCE (classic) editor (during switch Visual and Text editor’s tabs),

I add to ${THEME_FOLDER}/functions.php:

remove_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’ );
remove_filter( ‘the_excerpt’, ‘wpautop’ );
remove_filter( ‘term_decription’, ‘wpautop’ );

function config_tinymce( $config ) {
$config[‘wpautop’] = false;
return $config;
}
add_filter( ‘tiny_mce_before_init’, ‘config_tinymce’, 10 );

But this doesn’t work for ACF’s fields editors.

Help, please? Thanks!

• kuraga

• May 6, 2020 at 5:33 pm

For stopping removing <p> tags inside WordPress TinyMCE (classic) editor (during switch Visual and Text editor’s tabs),

I add to ${THEME_FOLDER}/functions.php:

remove_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’ );
remove_filter( ‘the_excerpt’, ‘wpautop’ );
remove_filter( ‘term_decription’, ‘wpautop’ );

function config_tinymce( $config ) {
$config[‘wpautop’] = false;
return $config;
}
add_filter( ‘tiny_mce_before_init’, ‘config_tinymce’, 10 );

But this doesn’t work for ACF’s fields editors.

Help, please? Thanks!

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Spoiler:

function acf_wysiwyg_remove_wpautop() {
remove_filter( ‘acf_the_content’, ‘wpautop’ );
}
add_action( ‘acf/init’, ‘acf_wysiwyg_remove_wpautop’);

with

remove_filter( ‘acf_the_content’, ‘wpautop’ );

don’t work.

I think, we need something like (analogue of)

function config_tinymce( $config ) {
$config[‘wpautop’] = false;
return $config;
}
add_filter( ‘tiny_mce_before_init’, ‘config_tinymce’, 10 );

• kuraga

• June 6, 2020 at 7:36 pm

Can anybody help? Support doesn’t reply, too.

• Elliot

• June 15, 2020 at 9:54 am

Hi @kuraga

Thanks for the email,
Elliot here – ACF dev​​​.

The PHP filters “the_content”, “the_excerpt” and “term_decription” are run during the output of these values in the theme front-end. They are PHP filters, which won’t affect the WYSIWG field.

The WYSIWYG field uses a similar, but unique filter, named “acf_the_content”. Using this filter will allow you to customize the WYSIWYG output in your theme.

The “tiny_mce_before_init” filter is used to cusotmize the tinymce settings. These will affect how the editor saves the value into the DB. In theory, ACF should inherit these settings, but to be extra sure, please checkout the ACF JS filter: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/javascript-api/#filters-wysiwyg_tinymce_settings

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Elliot

• kuraga

• June 15, 2020 at 7:28 pm

Eliot,

thanks about acf_the_content!

About TinyMCE: fixed after I’ve added as admin script:

acf.add_filter(‘wysiwyg_tinymce_settings’, function( mceInit, id, field ){
// is true before
mceInit[‘wpautop’] = false;

return mceInit;
});

Thanks!