ACF: Extra p tags added to oEmbed field output

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My website uses the Avada theme which includes a bundled version of ACF Pro and has ACF integrations built in. I have some pages that use an ACF repeater oEmbed subfield to add one or more Wistia videos into an Avada post cards element.

It works like I would expect, except the wistia script tag is getting wrapped in a p tag and therefore adding extra spacing above the video.

<p><script src=”https://fast.wistia.com/assets/external/E-v1.js” async></script></p>

WordPress does this with standard WYSIWYG editor oEmbeds and I was able to strip the extra p tags with the code at the very bottom of this post. But, for some reason, that code won’t remove the extra p tags from the ACF oEmbeds.

I found a few possible solution leads but can’t quite figure it out. I think the [acf/format\_value](https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-format_value/) filter might be key since it includes the oEmbed output rather than the field value (wistia url only). But that string doesn’t seem to include the p tags. So I’m guessing the p tags are being added when that string is added into the Avada post card text element. But then why doesn’t my code strip the p tags? Isn’t that part of the\_content?

I also tried adding the oEmbed via WYSIWYG subfield. It seems to do the same thing except it only adds a closing p tag for some reason (</p>) .

<script src=”https://fast.wistia.com/assets/external/E-v1.js” async></script></p>

**functions.php code to remove extra p tags and add wistia oEmbed**

function remove_ptags( $content ) {
$content = preg_replace(‘/<p>\s*(<(div|script|iframe).*>.*)\s*<\/p>/iU’, ‘$1’, $content);
return $content;
}
add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘remove_ptags’ );

wp_oembed_add_provider( ‘/https?:\/\/(.+)?(wistia.com|wi.st)\/(medias|embed)\/.*/’, ‘http://fast.wistia.com/oembed’, true);

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