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 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
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 ... 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
is
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.
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Great Blog…Looking to captilize from blogging as well.
Good plugin.
This is a nice plugin
Thanks…..
Love this plugin. Would love to see 2.5 compatibility.
@gazete oku – I think it’s compatible, though I haven’t tested it extensively. This blog uses WP 2.6 and the example in the post seems to work correctly.
I am not sure if it was the recent WP update or what, but this plug-in doesn’t seem to allow for php to be executed. If you view source, it simply prints the php source code. None of it is parsed. :/
Any advice?
– Esteban
@Esteban – This plugin was never intended for executing PHP. You will need a different plugin like Exec-PHP for that.
(testing possible commenting problem…) (this post can be deleted if it works) (sure wish i had comment previewing…) (btw, the problem was with FF3 and I am trying this on IE 6 now)
@White Shadow – Oh. I didn’t realize that. When I read the description, it said “In the end I decided to just go and write a plugin that would let me put any code or script in my posts and display it to the visitor unmodified.”
I thought any code included php. Did you mean only Java script and html?
As for Exec-PHP, I do use it. however, unless you enclose the whole post in the php brackets, WordPress will add parsing. That is why I was excited about your plug in. Here is an example (curlies instead of brackets):
CODE with Exec-PHP:
——————
line 0: {?php echo “stuff”; ?}
line 1:
line 2: {h1}title{/h1}
line 3:
line 4: {?php echo “more stuff”; ?}
WP output with Exec-PHP:
——————
stuff
TITLE
more stuff
——————
As you can see, there are line breaks added because WP is annoying. lol.
Now, with your plugin, what I had hoped to do because I thought in included php code was the following:
CODE with Exec-PHP and Raw HTML:
——————
line 0: {!–start_raw–}
line 1: {?php echo “stuff”; ?}
line 2:
line 3: {h1}title{/h1}
line 4:
line 5: {?php echo “more stuff”; ?}
line 6: {!–end_raw–}
——————
Desired WP output with Exec-PHP and Raw HTML:
——————
stuff
TITLE
more stuff
——————
Anyway, that is what I expected since you said that we code execute ANY code or script. :/
It’s okay if you don’t want to include this ability. I don’t want to tell you how to right your code and I CAN echo all the html with php (which would be annoying, but possible).
I do hope you can update this post though to better reflect what “any code or script” means.
Thanks for all your work my friend!
Esteban
(Ps – I don’t know what was up with your WP-SpamFree plugin, but I wasn’t able to post this with FireFox3.)
@Esteban – Yes, it was for JS/HTML. And your example might work if you did it like this :
line 1: {?php echo “stuff”; ?}{!–start_raw–}
line 2:
line 3: {h1}title{/h1}
line 4:
line 5: {!–end_raw–}{?php echo “more stuff”; ?}
Though that would likely become tedious in practical situations.
WP-SpamFree might cause problems if you have JS and/or cookies disabled, but there may be other possibilities that I’m not aware of.
@White Shadow – Thanks for the type. Unfortunately, I have tried that as well. I basically used the {!–start/end_raw–} tags to kill WordPress auto-formatting. You simply can’t use RAW HTML with Exec-PHP.
Echoing line by line or even in EXCERPTS can be handy, but when you want to print variables within it, that it turns out to be a problem. :-/
Anyway, thanks for the replies. Also, thanks for plugging the Javascript addition in there. I think it will clear thing up for folks. Now it’s time for me to either find another plug-in or write one myself (which will suck because I know in two weeks I will find out that I just reinvented the wheel and someone else already did it. lol)
As for the WP-SpamFree, it warned me of the exact problems you suggested both of which were not the case. All well. That’s why I use multiple browsers.
@White Shadow – PS, the last post was in FF3 and worked this time. lol. I love the consistency of inconsistency.
@Esteban – Ah well, good luck 😉
Great, works on a 2.6.1 (test, different theme) blog I’m considering migrating to – from 2.3.3 – it allowed me to put html tables into a page, I was pulling what’s left of my hair out before !
Many thanks, Alan.
This is -JUST- what i was looking for. Thank you so much!
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This plugin is a lifesaver. Simple and effective. Just a note, it’s not compatible with the tinymce-advanced plugin. Thanks a million!