Title: HTML tags
Last modified: August 18, 2016
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# HTML tags
* [WhyNot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whynot/)
* (@whynot)
* [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-tags/)
* I would like to know if there is a setting in WP which allows you to modify the
restriction imposed on HTML tags for visitors and members other than administrators.
* In particular, I notice that the ‘img src=”xxxxx” /’ tag gets sytematically stripped
off any comment except by one made by an Admin member.
* Even tags like ‘Font size=”4″‘ get stripped off as well.
* Is there a way to allow specific HTML taks through for various and/or all comments?
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* [Alex Cragg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/epicalex/)
* (@epicalex)
* [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-tags/#post-568876)
* the tags that are allowed are defined in wp-includes/kses.php
* Thread Starter [WhyNot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whynot/)
* (@whynot)
* [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-tags/#post-569007)
* Epicalex,
* Thank you for answering. If I may, can I pick your brain a bit more, lol:
* I see 2 lines:
* $allowedposttags = array….
$allowedtags = array …
* The first one has millions of tags, so that would be the one that a publishing
member could use, right?
* Wherea the second line only has a restricted number of tags, so that would be
what people commenting can use?
* Am it guessing right? Sorry I’m not very good at PHP stuff.
* The other question I have is:
* Is there any great danger in allowing all tags in comments? Say, for instance,
it I copy paste the first line into the second one, giving effectively any commentor
access to the entire palette of tags an Admin has (assuming I have understood
it right, of course), am I putting myself at some major risk of someone doing
something really nasty?
* So far, the only tags that are actually a pain (because of SPAM) are the URL
tags, and ironically enough they are allowed for commenters. But I am wondering
if some of the `Admin` allowed tags could really screw up the blog if used by
a malicious commenter.
* [ethanklein](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ethanklein/)
* (@ethanklein)
* [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-tags/#post-569359)
* bumping this because i’d love to hear any answer to WhyNot’s query. I’ve modified
$allowedtags in kses.php so that non-admin commenters can post ONE image. Sorrowfully,
if they post any more than one image the whole comment gets stripped! Many of
my commentors are pissed because they previously could post as many images as
they wanted in Moveable Type. They’d also like to post youtube embed links and
can’t within wordpress! WordPress!! why doth you suck!!
* sorry.. just frustrated after hours trying to solve this.
* Thank you kindly for any support!!!
* e
* [Bodhipaksa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haecceity/)
* (@haecceity)
* [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-tags/#post-569361)
* That would be “dost” rather than “doth” (2nd person rather than 3rd). But don’t
you think “Why suckest thou?” would sound better in any case?
* Anyway, I’m afraid that beyond a pedantic knowledge of archaic English grammar
I can’t be of help in this case, although the bump may be of assistance.
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## Tags
* [html](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/html/)
* [tags](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tags/)
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