Description
Copy&Paste Cleaner. If you want to quickly fill a post or a page with content that already exists, copy&paste is often used and it can destroy the layout of a website!
The basic problem is that if you copy&paste content from different sources into the visual editor, any formatting is copied over. Specifically, whether from text documents, other websites, online-shops and cms or even from social media, something comes along everywhere.
As there are often DIVs in addition to harmless HTML elements, these can cause the rendering of your own website to be faulty or interrupted.
To avoid this, this plugin checks the existing formatting and attributes and removes all those that could lead to a problem and then saves it directly.
If you copy and paste into the text editor, there is usually no problem.
Tested with these page builders:
- Classic editor
- Divi 4.27
- WPBakery 8.3
Privacy GDPR
This plugin processes the analyzed and converted HTML only within the respective website. No content is stored or transferred to other servers or services for processing. Data protection in accordance with the GDPR is therefore guaranteed at all times.
Screenshots
Button in Classic Editor 
Button in TinyMCE toolbar 
Button in TinyMCE toolbar with Divi 
Button in TinyMCE toolbar with Gutenberg 
Button in TinyMCE toolbar with WPBakery
Installation
Installation from within WordPress
- Visit Plugins > Add New.
- Search for Remove layout destroying HTML-Tags.
- Install and activate the Remove layout destroying HTML-Tags plugin.
Manual installation
- Upload the entire
remove-layout-destroying-html-tagsfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Visit Plugins.
- Activate the Remove layout destroying HTML-Tags plugin.
FAQ
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Why is the img element also being removed?
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The img element is removed for copyright reasons, as well as performance and security. You should insert any image data regularly and equip it with the appropriate attributes. This is also better for accessibility and SEO.
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Is it working with Beaver, Gutenberg, Divi, Elementor or WPBakery?
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At the moment it works fine with Divi and WPBakery page builder. Integrations for Gutenberg, Beaver and Elementor are in process.
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Why are the alt, aria-* and title attributes removed?
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These attributes are important for accessibility, but should be added and adapted individually so that the context is maintained.
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Why are emojis being removed too?
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Although emojis are based on the international Unicode, they are sometimes displayed differently. This means that an emoji can look completely different on iOS, Android and Windows and have a corresponding effect. These are filtered out to avoid misunderstandings in terms of content and to avoid potential display errors.
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Contributors & Developers
“Remove layout destroying HTML-Tags” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
0.2.4.1 – 2025-04-16
- Tweak: Tested with WordPress 6.8
- Fix: Some filters execute without explicit action on preview and save post
0.2.4 – 2025-04-11
- New: Removing emojis
- Tweak: Further Javascript optimizations
- Tweak: FAQ Info on emojis
- Tweak: Tested with WordPress 6.8-RC3
- Tweak: Javascript error is now translatable
- Tweak: Donate link updated
0.2.3.1 – 2025-04-01
- Tweak: Javascript file renamed
- Tweak: Added update date in changelog
- Tweak: GDPR privacy info added in description
0.2.3
- New: UX – Finally tooltip in TinyMCE toolbar is now translatable
- New: UI – Finally the plugin logo in TinyMCE toolbar integrated
- Tweak: PHP for page builder swap to own folder
- Tweak: Updated screenshots
- Removed: Gutenberg integration needs more testing
- Tweak: Tested with Divi 4.27.4 & WPBakery 8.3.1
0.2.2.1
- Fix: Content of some elements also deleted
0.2.2
- New: align, height, bgcolor, border, cellspacing attributes will be removed
- New: Table elements added (table, tr, td, th)
- New: b, i element added to approved elements
- New: abbr element will be removed
- Fix: Some aria-* und data-* attributes wasn’t removed
0.2.1
- New: data- attributes will be removed
- New: article, figure, picture elements will be removed
- New: aria-setsize, aria-posinset, translate, dir attributes will be removed
- Tweak: Javascript swap to own folder
- Tweak: Installation guide added
0.2.0
- New: WPBakery 8.3 support
0.1.1
- Tweak: Tested with Gutenberg & Divi 4 page builder
- Tweak: Linguistic adjustments
0.1.0
- New: Copy&Paste Cleaner finally in TinyMCE toolbar integrated
0.0.20
- New: Icon & Banner
0.0.19
- New: Exceptions added: blockquote
0.0.18
- New: aria-hidden, title attributes will be removed
- Tweak: some linguistic adaptation for correct translations
0.0.17
- Tweak: Button is now translatable
0.0.16
- New: Icon and banner for the WordPress Plugin Directory
- Tweak: after access in the WordPress Plugin Directory, small corrections of the information
- New: Plugin is now regularly available via WordPress