Strip Paragraph Tag

Question

In my image.php I am using this code to grab the image caption of each image. The problem is a paragraph tag ( <p> ) is being added around it and I don't want one to be. Could somebody tell me how to strip this tag?

<?php if ( !empty($post->post_excerpt) ) the_excerpt(); ?>

Answer 1

strip_tags — Strip HTML and PHP tags from a string

if (!empty($post->post_excerpt)) {
  $excerpt_raw = strip_tags(get_the_excerpt()); 
  echo $excerpt_raw;
}

Answer 2

You can also use remove_filter('the_excerpt', 'wp_autop') which is how I do it.