You’re welcome. Hope it helps others. Sorry for leading you on wild goose chase 😉

I’ll add something to this…many people need the p tag filter or their theme is messed with by the empty Ps inserted by WordPress. I just tried a different filter in functions.php instead of the one above. Fixes empty p tag in theme, doesn’t mess with “+” create project in WP Project Manager Front End plugin:

add_filter('the_content', 'remove_empty_p', 20, 1);
function remove_empty_p($content){
    $content = force_balance_tags($content);
    return preg_replace('#\s*+(<br\s*/*>)?\s*
#i', '', $content);
}

Resolved!

It was the actual filter itself breaking create project functionality in the frontend plugin. The following filter is recommended by the Inceptio theme developer to remove empty p tags inserted by WordPress. There are other such filters out there so beware adding them. They may clean up empty Ps content but can also break plugins.

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Beware: adding empty p tag strippers, such as below, can break the wp front end plugin.

remove_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’ );
add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’ , 99);
add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘shortcode_unautop’, 100);
add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘inc_shortcode_format’, 101);
if (!function_exists(‘inc_shortcode_format’)) {
function inc_shortcode_format($content)
{
$content = preg_replace(‘/(
)\s*(<)/', '<', $content); $content = preg_replace('/()\s*()\s*(<\/p>)/’, ‘‘, $content);
return $content;
}
}

Thanks for your help on this, Nizam.

Nizam…the extra p is only being inserted in the wppm shortcode. In the theme documentation, developer suggests adding the following filter to remove extra p inserted in shortcodes by WordPress. I did this months ago and it works for all the theme shortcodes but does not effect wppm.

remove_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’ );
add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’ , 99);
add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘shortcode_unautop’, 100);
add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘inc_shortcode_format’, 101);
if (!function_exists(‘inc_shortcode_format’)) {
function inc_shortcode_format($content)
{
$content = preg_replace(‘/(
)\s*(<)/', '<', $content); $content = preg_replace('/(

)\s*(

)()\s*(<\/p>)/’, ‘‘, $content);
return $content;
}
}

Thank you Nizam.

Hi Nizam. I did try with 2014 and it does work. (read my previous message please).

There must be a way to debug if there is a conflict? Certainly not everyone wants to use WordPress’s 2012 or 2014. Any suggestions? Thanks.

It does work with 2014 theme activated. I disabled all plugins in the theme I’m using and it still didn’t work.

When I check in Firebug, and click the “+” sign to add a project, Firebug shows me a JQuery error (line 2) in jquery.js (version 1.11.0). Don’t know whether this is your script or the theme’s jquery.

“Error: cannot call methods on dialog prior to initialization; attempted to call method ‘open'”

I’ll check it with plugins deactivated. I’ll let you know. thanks.

Thanks Nizam.

Ahh…you are fast. *That’s* why it worked! Thanks Nizam.

How about the Invoice add-on?