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1. uno
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   In the old version of wordpress 1.5x my author description would display html, however, in 2.0 the author profiles no longer parse html. Any suggestions?

2. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   This has been reported on Trac but likely won't be fixed until at least WordPress 2.1:

   http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2272

3. uno
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Anyone know a fix for this so I don't need to wait?

4. ctingom
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Does anyone know a fix for this?

5. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   To quote Trac http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2272

   "...we don't allow HTML in the profile pages."

6. BillyG
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   well that answers that...

   I just added a Page for the first time and was not able to add a picture to it although the clickable link behind it did appear (but I didn't click to see if it worked, it was blue and underlined though so...)

   at least now I know why the picture wouldn't stay (because the box did try to open lol)

   always ready for a new version :-)

7. uno
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   So what is the ETA on version 2.1?

   This was a feature that was very important to one of my sites.

8. ctingom
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Does anyone have a mod to allow this to work?

9. uno
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I sure hope so.

10. ctingom
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I wish instead of disabling it there was an option to have it display html code rendered or not rendered. Weird.

11. BillyG
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    please disregard my msg above, was definitely my cache or host, HTML did post as of me checking again just a minute ago, sorry about the confusion

    but I was talking about an added PAGE to my WP blog, not necessarily the Author profile page... I should've just stayed out of the thread

12. MichaelH
    moderator
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Please note that at patch that fixes this has been suggested at:
    http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2272

13. uno
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    OK I'm a code tard, how can I use that patch to fix this problem? Where should I enter that into that file, etc?

14. ctingom
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I'm confused by the patch. Does anybody know if this patch trims html from the profile or if it renders html?

15. uno
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Any help/clarification here?

16. uno
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    ?

17. romme
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Here's how I fixed the problem in my author.php - template file:

    
<?php

    if(isset($_GET['author_name'])) :
    $curauth = get_userdatabylogin($author_name);
    else :
    $curauth = get_userdata(intval($author));
    endif;

    echo html_entity_decode($curauth->description);

    ?>


    It's actually only the last line that's interresting. The 'html_entity_decode' function in PHP converts entities to plain text, thereby allowing HTML to be used in the author description field.

18. ctingom
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Romme, that looks very promising. I'm trying to integrate it into my template-functions-author.php file.

    Is your example replacing something that already exists? Or did you just drop that into the end of the document somehow? It didn't work when I tried it, that's why I ask.

19. msmeritt
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Anybody ever come up with a definitive answer on this topic?

20. neatnate
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I modified wp-includes/default-filters.php as follows; I believe it has the effect of formatting a user's profile description just like a post (but ignoring smilies):

    Remove the line add_filter('pre_user_description', 'wp_filter_kses');

    Add the lines:
    add_filter('pre_user_description', 'wp_filter_post_kses');
add_filter('pre_user_description', 'wptexturize');
add_filter('pre_user_description', 'wpautop');
add_filter('pre_user_description', 'convert_chars');
add_filter('pre_user_description', 'balanceTags', 50);

    The wp_filter_post_kses filter removes HTML prohibited in posts---it is less restrictive than wp_filter_kses.

21. msmeritt
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Omigosh, that worked beautifully. Thanks so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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