W-Shadow.com

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 disable the automatic formatting that WordPress applies to post content. This plugin adds a set of shortcodes that you can use to “protect” specific parts of your post and prevent WP from messing with them.

Download & Installation

• Get the Pro Version
• Download free version

Requirements :

• WordPress 2.8 or later
• If you use the free version, I strongly recommend disabling the visual editor. It (the editor) can mess up your code even if you use this plugin.

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 “Edit Post” screen:

If you want to prevent a specific part of your post or page from being processed and “texturized” by WordPress, wrap it in [raw]…[/raw] or <!–raw–>…<!–/raw–> tags. The two versions work exactly the same, with one exception – the <!–raw–>’s won’t be visible to your visitors even if you deactivate the plugin.

Example :
<!--raw-->
This

a 'test'!
<!--/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.