the_content is always surrounded by paragraphs (how to disable or remove them)?

Question

the_content is always surrounded by paragraphs, it doesn't matter if I'm in HTML view and there's nothing there. Does WordPress have a function to remove them? IS there any way?

Answer 1

Removing the filter that adds the P is the best option.

remove_filter('the_content','wpautop');
remove_filter('the_content','shortcode_autounp'); // You may want to do this aswell

Answer 2

You can implement your own function in your theme's function.php file and use it instead of "the_content"

function my_content($post){
    $content = apply_filters('the_content', $post->post_content); // added to parse shortcodes
    $content = str_replace(']]>', ']]&gt', $content); // added to parse shortcodes
    echo content;
}