I want to be able to use my own HTML in the category description, allowing me to add lists, or break paragraphs where I want, while retaining valid (x)HTML.
Eventually, I'll use the description to display it on each category page.
Unfortunately, WP seems to over-write all tags I manually put in there. Most annoying.
Any ideas on how to solve? I've sifted through codex and forum and google, I can't seem to find a solution to this.
Thanks
Posted 1 year ago #
What sort of HTML are we talking about? I use p, strong, and em tags in my category descriptions regularly without problems.
p were stripped out.
ol, ul and li were stripped out.
a href was left intact.
blockquote was stripped out.
Posted 1 year ago #
I also would love to be able to include html and even php code in category description.
Posted 1 year ago #
In wp-includes/default-filters.php, comment out add_filter($filter, 'wp_filter_kses');, like shown below (line 29).
$filters = array('pre_term_description', 'pre_link_description', 'pre_link_notes', 'pre_user_description');
foreach ( $filters as $filter ) {
//add_filter($filter, 'wp_filter_kses');
}A better option might be to write a plugin to do it, but I can't help you there -- yet.
Cheers
Arno
Posted 1 year ago #
OK, so that was easy...
Copy the text below into a text file and save it as html-in-category-descriptions.php in your plugins directory.
Cheers
Arno Esterhuizen
arno.esterhuizen@gmail.com
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: HTML in Category Descriptions
Version: 1.0
Plugin URI:
Description: Allows you to add HTML code in category descriptions
Author: Arno Esterhuizen
Author URI: arno.esterhuizen@gmail.com
*/
$filters = array('pre_term_description', 'pre_link_description', 'pre_link_notes', 'pre_user_description');
foreach ( $filters as $filter ) {
remove_filter($filter, 'wp_filter_kses');
}
?>Thank you *so* much, arno. I actually just pasted your code (including copyright comments ;) ) into my existing "functions.php" inside my template directory, and it works like that too.
Just what I needed!
Posted 1 year ago #
I've got the same problem, I want to find some plugin that will keep the post content in category page with part of html, not part of raw text, expecially I want to keep some pics in the post.
Posted 1 year ago #
I figured out how to hack the default-filters.php file (referred to above) for version 2.6, which has changed what they call category_description. It's now called 'term_description'. I did a hack and slash and commented out anything filtering the term description including the below.
// Kses only for textarea saves
$filters = array(/*'pre_term_description',*/ 'pre_link_description', 'pre_link_notes', 'pre_user_description');
foreach ( $filters as $filter ) {
add_filter($filter, 'wp_filter_kses');
} and this bit:
'code'
// Format text area for display.
//$filters = array('term_description');
//foreach ( $filters as $filter ) {
// add_filter($filter, 'wptexturize');
// add_filter($filter, 'convert_chars');
// add_filter($filter, 'wpautop');
//}Worked for me.
Sophia Kelly
www.sophiakelly.ca
The problem with this is that when you update WordPress, your hack will be overwritten with the newest default-filters.php file.
Using a plugin or a functions.php solution is update-proof. Most of the time :)
Posted 1 year ago #
This broke with 2.6.1 for me, i had to add
pre_term_description, just add the following block to functions.php in your theme.
$filters = array('term_description','category_description','pre_term_description');
foreach ( $filters as $filter ) {
remove_filter($filter, 'wptexturize');
remove_filter($filter, 'convert_chars');
remove_filter($filter, 'wpautop');
remove_filter($filter, 'wp_filter_kses');
remove_filter($filter, 'strip_tags');
}
Posted 1 year ago #
html comments are still filtered out. any idea how to stop this? - i'd like to make my own <!--more--> function for descriptions...
Posted 9 months ago #
arno_esterhuizen solution is preferable. As already said, hacking the core is not a good idea, if you can do it with a plugin. I tried this plugin with 2.7 and it works perfectly. Thanks arno_esterhuizen!
Posted 9 months ago #
OK, I have installed this plug-in and it works as expected, but there's a problem. The Category Description is also used as the TITLE for the category navigation link, so there's now HTML in the link!
Is there a way to extend the plugin so it overrides what is return to the "wp_list_categories" call and strips out the HTML in that situation specifically?
Thanks to arno_esterhuizen for a nice plug-in solution.
--Ed
Posted 9 months ago #
Using arno_esterhuizen's method in 2.7 and it works great.
2 issues:
1. echo rEd86's point: mousover the category in navigation and the whole description, including html markup, pops up.
2. I want to conditionally display the description if it exists. I've tried this:
if (category_description()) { echo category_description(); }
but it doesn't work. If category description is empty, it's still echos a line break.
use wp_list_categories(use_desc_for_title=0)
Shalako: try adding a trim() like this: if (category_description()) { echo trim(category_description()); }
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