Title: remove_filter doesnt work
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# remove_filter doesnt work

 *  Resolved [Tobias Jordans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobias/)
 * (@tobias)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove_filter-doesnt-work/)
 * Hi!
 * In default-filters.php there is a Filter on the category-description that removes
   some HTML-Tags I like to keep.
 * So I try to do
    `remove_filter('pre_category_description', 'wp_filter_kses');`
   inside my Plugin-File
 * But this doesn’t work. I also tried adding priorities like 1, 10 and 30 like 
   [kackreiz](http://www.kackreiz.net/artikel/wordpress/) suggested but this doesnt
   help.
 * I get the feeling the remove-mechanism does not work at all since all problems
   are solved when I uncomment the add_filter-line inside default-filters.php. A
   solution I dont like so much…
 * Is someone able to use the line of code above in his wordpress?
    Whats wrong 
   on my side?
 * Thanks!

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 *  Thread Starter [Tobias Jordans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobias/)
 * (@tobias)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove_filter-doesnt-work/#post-461667)
 * Problem solved: remove_filter does work only if its called out of a plugin-file.
   
   It does not work in some wp-admin-folder-file… (it just does nothing there, no
   error, no msg).

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## Tags

 * [filter](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/filter/)
 * [hook](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hook/)
 * [plugin api](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/plugin-api/)
 * [remove_filter](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/remove_filter/)

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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Jordans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobias/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove_filter-doesnt-work/#post-461667)
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