Title: Exec-PHP plugin not working
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Exec-PHP plugin not working

 *  [spellmankm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spellmankm/)
 * (@spellmankm)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exec-php-plugin-not-working/)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve installed Exec-PHP 3.2 plugin and have fulfilled all the requirements and
   even assigned the proper roles with Role Manager plugin, but it still doesn’t
   work. Any suggestions or thoughts on how to get it to work?
 * Thanks,
    spellmank

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 *  [thepete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thepete/)
 * (@thepete)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exec-php-plugin-not-working/#post-523531)
 * It’s not working for me, either. WordPress, itself, seems to reformat my php 
   code so that it simply displays inside a post with a space in between the “<”
   and the “?php” thus stopping any php from actually executing. Any ideas why this
   is happening?
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exec-php-plugin-not-working/#post-523532)
 * You must have the wysiwyg editor turned off for it to work.
 *  [thepete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thepete/)
 * (@thepete)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exec-php-plugin-not-working/#post-523535)
 * Thanks for your reply, but I do have it turned off. I hate that thing. I like
   to see the actual code.
 * Any other possibilities?
 *  [chinaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chinaman/)
 * (@chinaman)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exec-php-plugin-not-working/#post-523536)
 * I have run into the same problem. There is an extra space between the “<” and
   the “?php”
 * I have turned of WYSIWYG as well as WordPress should correct invalidly nested
   XHTML automatically
 * Any help much appreciated.
 *  [McShelby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcshelby/)
 * (@mcshelby)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exec-php-plugin-not-working/#post-523537)
 * Third requirement a post author must match: The author needs the ‘unfiltered_html’
   capability. By default this is assigned to Administrators and Editors.
 *  [chinaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chinaman/)
 * (@chinaman)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exec-php-plugin-not-working/#post-523538)
 * Thanks McShelby. Also fulfilled that requirement:)
 *  [McShelby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcshelby/)
 * (@mcshelby)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exec-php-plugin-not-working/#post-523539)
 * Hmm, one last point: Which WordPress version are you using?
 *  [dbasulto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dbasulto/)
 * (@dbasulto)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exec-php-plugin-not-working/#post-523540)
 * doesn’t work for me on wp 2.1.1
    it adds <p> tags on the executed result from
   the php.
 *  [chinaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chinaman/)
 * (@chinaman)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exec-php-plugin-not-working/#post-523545)
 * Thanks McShelby. I use 2.0.7 and it seems my problem is not so much with exec-
   php, I updated to the latest version and that extra space was solved. Still have
   a slight problem with the way external rss feeds are displayed within a page 
   but that’s another thread:)
 *  [McShelby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcshelby/)
 * (@mcshelby)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exec-php-plugin-not-working/#post-523546)
 * [@dbasulto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dbasulto/): The <p> tags are 
   added by WP not by the Exec-PHP plugin.
 *  [sniffernet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sniffernet/)
 * (@sniffernet)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exec-php-plugin-not-working/#post-523599)
 * Here is the solution for 9 months of nothing.. I just did it. It’s the initial
   version but works.
 * I will improve it tomorrow.
 * Download it: [http://wysiwyg-php.sniffer.net/](http://wysiwyg-php.sniffer.net/)
 * My PuTTY bash prompt Theme page [http://elite4putty.sniffer.net](http://elite4putty.sniffer.net)
   and my webpage [http://www.sniffer.net/](http://www.sniffer.net/)
 * Best wishes,
    Bruno Ratnieks
 *  [pospiech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pospiech/)
 * (@pospiech)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exec-php-plugin-not-working/#post-523612)
 * I experience the same problem with wp 2.3.2 and version 4.3 of php-exec. The 
   code is output enclosed in `<p>` tags.

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