Prevent TinyMCE wrapping text in p tags on Wordpress

Question

Sorry for my english, I'm not a native speaker.

I've been trying to solve this problem for hours with no luck so far. The question looks like a duplicate of questions asked previously here on Stack Overflow, but none of the solutions found here worked for me.

TinyMCE wraps anything you put in there inside p tags. I need to change the forced_root_block setting of tinymce to prevent this but I have no idea on how to achieve that on Wordpress.

I tried putting the code found here in my functions.php, but It did not work. Also, the problem doesn't revolve around "wpautop". It's just a TinyMCE problem: it puts the p tags as a default behaviour because it needs a root block. In my case I don't need a root block, because the editor's content is just a plain text whose root block is in my template's code. The added p tags simply break my layout, putting unnecessary html elements.

I tried using the TinyMCE advaced plugin, which has this option:

Stop removing the and tags when saving and show them in the Text editor

but when this is not checked has the effect of "stripping" all the p tags, even the ones I intentionally use in the editor.

All I want to achieve is to prevent the editor from adding unwanted p tags and, at the same time, keep the p tags I intentionally use.

Is there a way to edit the forced_root_block setting of TinyMCE on Wordpress?

You mean that when you press enter in the visual mode, it should add two   instead of a new paragraph? — vard
No, if I typed "Lorem Ipsum" in the editor, it automatically wrapped it in p tags. And that's what I wanted to prevent. Found the solution, edited my post. Thank you — mickmickmick
You better should post the solution as an answer and accept it (after 24h), so your question will be marked as resolved. — vard

mickmickmick mickmickmick · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-21T10:18:23

EDIT: After too many hours I was messing up between two different Wordpress installations I was working on at the same time. The solution of the linked post worked for me, but I was checking the results on the other site. By putting this:

function change_mce_options($init){
    $init["forced_root_block"] = false;
    $init["force_br_newlines"] = true;
    $init["force_p_newlines"] = false;
    $init["convert_newlines_to_brs"] = true;
    return $init;       
}
add_filter('tiny_mce_before_init','change_mce_options');

in my functions.php, TinyMCE stopped putting anything inside p tags. The Stop removing the and tags when saving and show them in the Text editor of TinyMCE Advaced needs to be checked.

Prevent TinyMCE wrapping text in p tags on Wordpress

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