Title: Event Description to allow HyperLink Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Event Description to allow HyperLink * Resolved [nnguyen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nnguyen/) * (@nnguyen) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/event-description-to-allow-hyperlink/) * When listing event there are event descriptions beneath them. But should the event descriptions have a hyperlink, it is displayed as a regular text.([see image](http://s7.postimg.org/o5jrhwx7v/event_bug.png)) * Here is the event post, notice it has a hyperlink for the word ‘here'([see image](http://s8.postimg.org/k3er1u7np/event_bug2.png)) * Upon investigating, the tribe_events_get_the_excerpt function in general.php seems to filter it out, i have tried to modified it but failed. In addition, im not quite understanding the $allowed_html variable which does include hyperlinks. Any suggestions to allowing hyperlink to show up correctly in event descriptions? * ``` function tribe_events_get_the_excerpt( $post = null, $allowed_html = null ) { // If post is not numeric or instance of WP_Post it defaults to the current Post ID if ( ! is_numeric( $post ) && ! $post instanceof WP_Post ) { $post = get_the_ID(); } // If not a WP_Post we try to fetch it as one if ( is_numeric( $post ) ) { $post = WP_Post::get_instance( $post ); } // Prevent Non usable $post instances if ( ! $post instanceof WP_Post ) { return null; } // Default Allowed HTML if ( ! is_array( $allowed_html ) ) { $base_attrs = array( 'class' => array(), 'id' => array(), 'style' => array(), ); $allowed_html = array( 'a' => array( 'class' => array(), 'id' => array(), 'style' => array(), 'href' => array(), 'rel' => array(), 'target' => array(), ), 'p' => array( 'class' => array(), 'id' => array() ), 'b' => $base_attrs, 'strong' => $base_attrs, 'em' => $base_attrs, 'span' => $base_attrs, 'ul' => $base_attrs, 'li' => $base_attrs, 'ol' => $base_attrs, ); } /** * Allow developers to filter what are the allowed HTML on the Excerpt * * @var array Must be compatible to wp_kses structure * * @link https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_kses */ $allowed_html = apply_filters( 'tribe_events_excerpt_allowed_html', $allowed_html, $post ); /** * Allow shortcodes to be Applied on the Excerpt or not * * @var bool */ $allow_shortcode = apply_filters( 'tribe_events_excerpt_allow_shortcode', false ); // Get the Excerpt or content based on what is available if ( has_excerpt( $post->ID ) ) { $excerpt = $post->post_excerpt; } else { $excerpt = $post->post_content; } // Remove all shortcode Content before removing HTML if ( ! $allow_shortcode ) { $excerpt = preg_replace( '#\[.+\]#u', '', $excerpt ); } // Remove "all" HTML based on what is allowed $excerpt = wp_kses( $excerpt, $allowed_html ); /** * Filter the number of words in an excerpt. * * @param int $number The number of words. Default 55. */ $excerpt_length = apply_filters( 'excerpt_length', 55 ); /** * Filter the string in the "more" link displayed after a trimmed excerpt. * * @param string $more_string The string shown within the more link. */ $excerpt_more = apply_filters( 'excerpt_more', ' […]' ); // Now we actually trim it $excerpt = wp_trim_words( $excerpt, $excerpt_length, $excerpt_more ); return wpautop( $excerpt ); } ``` * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/) Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [nicosantos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicosantos/) * (@nicosantos) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/event-description-to-allow-hyperlink/#post-6879402) * Hi [@nnguyen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nnguyen/), * You are right about this, but from what I could test this doesn’t relate to the_ $allowed\_html_ variable. It seems like _wp\_trim\_words_ is return the text without the html. * You can override the template (take a look at our [Themer’s guide](https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/)) and change the code to use your own excerpt function or just regular WordPress _the\_excerpt_ function. * Please let us know about this, Best, Nico * [nicosantos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicosantos/) * (@nicosantos) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/event-description-to-allow-hyperlink/#post-6879408) * PS: thanks for the report, I’ll mark this for review! * Thread Starter [nnguyen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nnguyen/) * (@nnguyen) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/event-description-to-allow-hyperlink/#post-6879409) * haha yea i figured that out too after half an hour of more researching. I ended up creating my own function that calls the_content function instead of your tribe_events_get_the_excerpt function. It worked out perfect. * Thank you for your time Nicosantos. * Plugin Contributor [Brian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianjessee/) * (@brianjessee) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/event-description-to-allow-hyperlink/#post-6879456) * Great glad it helped you nnguyen. 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