Title: < and > problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# < and > problems

 *  Resolved [lawtai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lawtai/)
 * (@lawtai)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lt-and-gt-problems/)
 * In WP 1.5 and previous versions, for my site since I had multiple users, I would
   have author pictures. I would do this by using a hook to the author profile, 
   where I had html code used for an image, like the following code:
 * <img alt=”pic” class=”userpic” src=”/wp-images/thumb.jpg” />
 * This worked for the 3 authors I had listed on my site.
 * However, after upgrading to WP 2.0, I now get text appearing instead of the picture.
   However, this only occurs for 2 of the 3 authors. I haven’t changed anything 
   with the html, but it now appears with text. Any ideas as to why this is happening?
   Thanks!

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 *  Thread Starter [lawtai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lawtai/)
 * (@lawtai)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lt-and-gt-problems/#post-306832)
 * Ok, I found that the problem is that WP is for some reason converting the < >
   to &lt ; and &gt ;. Does anyone know how I can prevent it from doing that?
 *  Thread Starter [lawtai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lawtai/)
 * (@lawtai)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lt-and-gt-problems/#post-306851)
 * nevermind. I had to go into the database to fix it.
 *  [mercury](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercury/)
 * (@mercury)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lt-and-gt-problems/#post-307393)
 * could you share with us what you had to do in order to fix the issue ?
 *  Thread Starter [lawtai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lawtai/)
 * (@lawtai)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lt-and-gt-problems/#post-307425)
 * I had to use phpmyadmin and go into the database. I guess WP converted the < 
   > to the ascii codes. So I simply went into the database and found hwere the 
   description for the author profiles were stored, and changed the ascii code to
   < >. That solved the problem.

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 * Last reply from: [lawtai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lawtai/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lt-and-gt-problems/#post-307425)
 * Status: resolved

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