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I want to remove all HTML from a page generated by Wordpress.
It needs to be simple plain text, without any HTML, at all.
When opening the page in the browser, it should not return any HTML code. Therefore, I do not want to edit a post -- I want to completely remove everything.
I have only found ways to replace the post content. However, I do not want to replace the post content. I want to completely remove the entire HTML of a page.
Starting from <!DOCTYPE html> and ending with </html>.
You could make a template for this in your active theme, then assign that page to use the new template file.
null-template.php<?php
/**
* Template Name: Null
*/
if ( have_posts() ) {
while ( have_posts() ) {
the_post();
the_title();
echo( wp_strip_all_tags( get_the_content() ) );
}
}
Then create a new page (or edit the one you want to be HTML-free) and make sure it's using the Null template.
This should result in a page that has no HTML whatever in it.
wp_strip_all_tags() for when you really don't want any tags left behind
html tag and a body tag are still artificially generated, because the editor forces me to enter text in the frontend editor, which, as I understand it, forces a proper HTML file with a body. Could not get the following solution to work. stackoverflow.com/a/20922186/7061105
<html> tag? Or is the dev tools just showing one? Check the Network tab to see the raw data returned by the server.
Oct 4, 2022 at 6:42
curled the link and it actually works. Thanks to both of you for helping me. This solution works great.
header('Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8'); (or whatever Content-Type is required) after the <?php depicted in the answer. For example: <?php header('Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8');