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Description

Changes double line-breaks in the text into HTML paragraphs (<p>...</p>).

Wordpress uses it to filter the content and the excerpt.

Usage

 <?php wpautop( $pee, $br = 1 ); ?> 

Parameters

pee 
(string) The text to be formatted.
br 
(boolean) Preserve line breaks. When set to true, any line breaks remaining after paragraph conversion are converted to HTML <br />. Line breaks within script and style sections are not affected. Default true.

>> It this is accurate, then why ohhhhh why are so many folk in so many places talking about <br /> being stripped? Docs out of step w/reality ... not a good sign. << --bentrem 05:09, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

References

http://photomatt.net/scripts/autop/

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