bigsmoke

This plugin was born out of a very simple need. Back in the day, when the wpautop filter was really sucky, I got annoyed and turned it off for my <a href="http://blog.bigsmoke.us/" rel="nofollow ugc">blog</a>. However, years later, me (but mostly my co-author, Halfgaar) got equally annoyed by having to manually type in all the angle brackets. I wanted to turn on the filter again, but I didn’t want this to affect all my old posts. Hence this plugin. See <a href="http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2010/12/09/wpautop" rel="nofollow ugc">this blog post</a> for more history.

wpautop control

Adds a global setting to turn the wpautop filter on and off. It also allows you to override this default for any post by adding a wpautop custom field …

Martyn Chamberlin

If you’ve ever had a WordPress blog post or page in which you found yourself writing more than a little HTML, you’ve experienced the frustration of finding your beautiful markup surrounded in <code></code> tags. The problem only gets worse when you start throwing jQuery into the mix. Who on earth gave WordPress permission to throw in <code> </code> tags inside a <code><script></code>, anyhow?!
Up until now, we’ve only had a couple of options:
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<li>First, we could use conditional logic to require an external PHP file. This was bad for several reasons.
<ul>
<li>It’s not friendly for the end user. Who wants to have to edit a PHP file?</li>
<li>The content is not in the WordPress database, which means it isn’t searchable inside the dashboard, and it isn’t backed up with the rest of the site.</li>
<li>It removes framework functionality. Robust WordPress frameworks have places to add content above and below the main post content area, and an external PHP file destroys this greatly.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The second option is to use the existing plugins to disable WordPress formatting, but none of these plugins empower the user to toggle this setting on a page-by-page basis. After all, most articles don’t have that much <code>HTML</code> in them. Nobody wants to go through 500 old blog posts and manually add <code></code> tags to them, do they? We didn’t think so either.</li>
</ul>
As a web designer that’s used WordPress successfully for several years, I finally decided these shenanigans had to stop once and for good. I built a simple but elegant plugin that lets you disable auto-generated HTML on a page-by-page basis.
I hope you use and enjoy Don’t Muck My Markup as much as I enjoyed building it.
Note: this plugin does not work on all WordPress themes, because some themes don’t handle the filter sequence correctly. This plugin does work for well-programmed themes such as the Twenty Fourteen theme and the Genesis Framework (and child themes).

Don't Muck My Markup

Click disable auto-formatting for this post still allows Visual to be clicked, which generated auto-formatting.

To work in all cases, clicking Visual best also be disabled.

Kind works.

Don't Muck My Markup lets you disable all auto-generated HTML markup from your posts and pages on a page-by-page basis.

wpautop control vs Don't Muck My Markup