Raw HTML Plugin for WordPress
Introduction
Recently I needed to put some style definitions and a JavaScript function in a post on another blog that I have. I wasted several hours trying to do this, because WordPress insisted on putting backslashes in front of my apostrophes, inserting superfluous <p> or <br /> tags in place of newlines, and generally breaking my HTML in various horrible ways.
In the end I decided to just go and write a plugin that would let me put any code or script (e.g. JavaScript) in my posts and display it to the visitor unmodified.
Download & Installation
raw-html.zip (3 KB)
Requirements :
- WordPress 2.3.1 – 2.7
- Disable visual editor for better results – some characters (e.g. the ampersand) may still be encoded if it’s enabled.
Installation is straightforward – download the zip file, unzip, upload the raw-html folder to /wp-content/plugins and activate it in the Plugins tab.
Usage
There are two ways to use the plugin. First, to turn off “smart quotes” and other built-in filters for an entire post, use the checkboxes that Raw HTML adds to the “Write” screen (requires WP 2.5+) :
If you want to prevent a specific part of your post or page from being processed and “texturized” by WordPress, wrap it in <!–start_raw–>…<!–end_raw–> or [RAW]…[/RAW] tags. The two versions work exactly the same, but the latter may be handy if you’re using the visual editor (not recommended).
Example :
<!--start_raw-->
This
is
a 'test'!
<!--end_raw-->
Result :
This
is
a 'test'!
If you view the source code of this page, you will see that the newlines are still there, and the apostrophes haven’t been converted/escaped.
Other Notes
This plugin is provided AS IS, with no guarantee that it will work on your site. If it works for you, consider yourself lucky 
Hello, thanks for your work on this plugin. I’m having some issues. I’ve got WP 2.6.3 and I don’t get an options box added to my write or manage pages. I’ve used the card code method and that seems to work to a point. WP is still stripping out line breaks and also non breaking spaces in my html. This happens when I paste as html then switch to visual editor, then back to html. I can’t turn off visual editor because eventually I have to hand this over to a client who will want a wysiwyg. I never really got why wordpress is rewriting code anyway.
It strips the paragraph tags out of the raw code as well.
As noted in the post, the plugin isn’t really reliable when used with the visual editor. Unfortunately I’m not sufficiently familiar with the inner workings of the editor to fix this (at least at the moment). Sorry.
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Mike, I had the same issue with missing options before I upgraded to 2.7.1. Now it works great! Thanks for this plug-in. I was so frustrated with WP putting paragraph tags around my images and breaking my layout.
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I am trying to add an affiliate to my site. However, each time I add the code and publish. The code remains there it does not convert to a button. Is this something I need. I am not sure what I need. This is very confusing to me. Can someone please help me.
Tracy, Can you be more specific. Perhaps show the code and the page where this is happening. And firstly, have you determined if the code is working o.k. outside of wordpress…like on a stand alone HTML page?
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Hi, there!
Multiple code blocks of [RAW] … [/RAW] do NOT work well in one passage, would you please fix that?
Thank you!
And by the way it’s a very useful plugin!
Thank you!
it’s a very useful plugin
@ Shane : Fixed in 1.2.2.
One question. Does it remove the “auto p” from images as well?
I haven’t tested it, but I think it would.
@White Shadow
Thanks for your work!
Brilliant!
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What changed on version 1.2.3?
BTW, what plugin do you use to have this “Manage your subscriptions” feature?
I partially replaced regular expressions with simple string manipulation because regexps were hitting some ridiculously low input limit when processing long posts. You won’t notice any difference if you didn’t have this problem.
I use the Subscribe to Comments plugin for that feature.
I would love to see an option that forces RAW on everypost. Or every new post I should say.
Thanks!
Mmm, a settings page with a single option… pretty unlikely.
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Hi Janis,
I think Raw HTML is stripping paragraph tags even on posts/pages where I haven’t told it to. For instance, I’ll add carriage returns in the visual editor, or I’ll add tags by hand using the HTML editor, and they’re always stripped out. I’ve tried deactivating the plugin, but that doesn’t help. This wasn’t happening before I installed Raw HTML.
This is on a new blog running 2.7.1 (and Raw HTML 1.2.3)
Have you seen this before?
If deactivating Raw HTML doesn’t help then the problem probably wasn’t caused by this plugin in the first place. The plugin doesn’t make any persistent changes to a blog – deactivate it and it stops. The plugin-specific tags (e.g. <–start_raw–>) would remain in the post (if you inserted them) but they wouldn’t do anything.
Få din egna HTML-kod att fungera i WordPress-inlägg…
WordPress är inte speciellt bra på att acceptera HTML-kod i inlägg. Koden förvrängs som regel med radbrytningar, taggar och en del försvinner helt enkelt. Om du någon gång provat att klistra in ett par rader Javascript så vet du vad jag menar…….
!RAWBLOCK0!
There is a problem with the latest WP ??
I get this with just
This
is
a ‘test’!
or even just puting
And nothing else.
Are there compatibility issues with other plugins??
I received a similar report a few weeks ago and it turned out to be a compatibility issue with the “Share On Facebook” plugin. It’s probably something similar in your case.
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