Title: Problem when post title includes html tags
Last modified: January 3, 2017

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# Problem when post title includes html tags

 *  [Michael Ferrier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrferrier/)
 * (@mrferrier)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-when-post-title-includes-html-tags/)
 * My site’s post titles include html tags for formatting. For example:
 * `<b>December Surprises</b></br><span style='font-size: 0.8em'>Late-Year Winners
   from John Legend and Kate Bush </span>`
 * These tags are then included by the AddThis plugin in the posts that it would
   created.
 * For example, here is the title as it appears in the AddThis button code:
 * `addthis:title='<b>December Surprises</b></br><span style='font-size: 0.8em'>
   Late-Year Winners from John Legend and Kate Bush </span>'`
 * …and here is the Twitter post it would create:
 * `bDecember Surprises/b/brspan style='font-size: 0.8em'Late-Year Winners from 
   John Legend and Kate Bush /span http://66.197.98.104/2016/12/06/december-surprises/#.
   WGtMoU43-gc.twitter`
 * Instead, I would like it to create a post like this, lacking the tags:
 * `December Surprises Late-Year Winners from John Legend and Kate Bush http://66.197.98.104/
   2016/12/06/december-surprises/#.WGtMoU43-gc.twitter`
 * Is there any way to have the AddThis plugin drop the html tags from the title
   so that they do not appear in the posts it creates? Thank you.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-when-post-title-includes-html-tags/)
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