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1. DaveHope
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I'm trying to embed some flash to a page on my site, I'm entering the correct <object> & <enbed> code into the page, which displays fine.

   However, If I goto edit the page at a later date the code gets mangled, wordpress inserts a </object> before the <embed> and replaces me closing /> with ></embed>

   This is a real pain, as it means I have to re-edit my flash every time i alter the page.

   Is there a tag to prevent wordpress altering html, or should this be reported as a bug? - I'm guessing the html tidy process doesn't like <object> & <embed>

   For reference, the page in question can be seen here:

   http://davehope.co.uk/gallery/

   Dave

2. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Turn off the visual editor entirely, then it won't mangle that sort of thing when you edit the post.

   The option is at Users->My Profile.

3. tyost
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I noticed this too with some javascript.
   I've decided to use the "Include Me In That HTML" plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/include-me-in-that-html/). That way I can put the common routines in a directory and just include them.

4. Ryan Paul
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   You could use the FCUK editor plugin. That works html perfectly... not sure how other plugins integrate with it though.

5. DaveHope
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hrm, thanks for the replies guys.

   I think I'll file it as a bug, as this probably need addressing?

6. Ben Tremblay
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   From others' comments in other threads it's clear that TinyMCE imposes its will on the simplest of markup, paragraph and line-breaks. From this material here the wee beast evidently doesn't restrict itself to re-writing just the basics!

   FWIW I'm cobbling together a page relating to this *nasty rotten cussed* editor issue.

7. Ben Tremblay
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Addendum (got caught by "post too old"):
   In "How to stop TinyMCE from pulling MS styles from Word docs" azaozz points to a potent functionality:
   Rich Text Editor Filters states "mce_valid_elements - applied to the comma-delimited list of valid HTML tags for the rich editor. Any elements not in this list will automatically be removed ..." and then *sigh* points to a TinyMCE doc that is 404 at the moment.

8. here
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Further codex work : http://codex.wordpress.org/How_Wordpress_Processes_Entry_Text

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