How do you prevent the WordPress editor from stripping out certain HTML tags

landwire
(@landwire)

7 years, 5 months ago

Hi there,
the wordpress editor strips tags when switching from visual to text mode. How do you prevent this from happening? It’s simple tags like
<p><span> that are getting stripped.
It’s a well known issue and I am looking for a non-hacky, non disaple the visual editor, non use this plugin answer.

Thanks,
Sascha

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Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)

WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

6 years, 8 months ago

Alternatively use a plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/dont-muck-my-markup/

Okoth1
(@okoth1)

6 years, 8 months ago

Hey, thanks for that! If the plugin maker keeps the plugin updated I might use that one 😉

a4jp
(@a4jpcom)

6 years, 8 months ago

This is very useful info. Thanks ^^

Okoth1
(@okoth1)

6 years, 8 months ago

I might need to check the script, because someone wrote in the plugin’s comments that something has changed in Visual Editor…

Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)

WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

6 years, 8 months ago

There might be other plugins too:
– https://wordpress.org/plugins/preserve-code-formatting/
– https://wordpress.org/plugins/preserved-html-editor-markup-plus/

FireMyst
(@firemyst)

6 years, 7 months ago

I just came across this issue last week with span tags, especially when span tags are wrapping two – three paragraphs. It is annoying as heck and WP should have it built in that if the user enters valid html, regardless of what the tags are, they should be preserved, especially if one is only staying in the “text” view versus the “visual” view.

Has anyone had any good luck with the plugins mentioned?

Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)

WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

6 years, 7 months ago

@firemyst, I’m going to close this thread. We’ve answered the original poster’s problem and there’s no point re-opening a debate on what WordPress should and should not do. Please use the Requests and Feedback forum for that.