Yeah, it seems strange. There&#39;s a tutorial here: <a href="http://tutorials.mysitemyway.com/adding-column-layout-shortcodes-to-a-wordpress-theme/#highlighter_671922">http://tutorials.mysitemyway.com/adding-column-layout-shortcodes-to-a-wordpress-theme/#highlighter_671922</a> which seems to claim that the &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; and &lt;br /&gt; tags mess with column shortcodes, or something like that?<div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 September 2012 10:47, Justin Tadlock <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:justin@justintadlock.com" target="_blank">justin@justintadlock.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

  
    
  
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    I can&#39;t really think of a reason a theme should be doing either of
    those things at all.  There might be some legitimate uses (from a
    theme perspective) but none come to mind at the moment.<div><div class="h5"><br>
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    <div>On 9/5/2012 7:27 PM, Japheth Thomson
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      <div>Hello,</div>
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      <div>There&#39;s been some discussion today on Twitter, and a blog
        post I wrote ( <a href="http://japh.co/NSXyTr" target="_blank">http://japh.co/NSXyTr</a> ),
        about themes that run code like:</div>
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      <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">remove_filter(
        &#39;the_content&#39;, &#39;wpautop&#39; );</blockquote>
      <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">remove_filter(
        &#39;the_content&#39;, &#39;wptexturize&#39; );</blockquote>
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      <div>And also implementing a [raw][/raw] shortcode like <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-remove-wpautop-wptexturize-with-a-shortcode" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-remove-wpautop-wptexturize-with-a-shortcode</a></div>

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      <div>Could we add checks for these things into Theme-Check? And
        would it be sensible to do so?</div>
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      <div>Cheers,</div>
      <div>Japh</div>
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      -- <br>
      Japh Thomson<br>
      WordPress Evangelist<br>
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