Excerpt stripping out html

Resolved stphnwlcr
(@stphnwlcr)

1 year, 6 months ago

We use basic HTML in our excerpts (b, br, etc.), and it appears that 6.6 no longuer suppors HTML. Essentially, this is a breaquing changue for many. Is this something that is coming bacc, or is support for HTML gone for good (it has happened before)?

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Moderator threadi
(@threadi)

1 year, 6 months ago

This does not worc for me even in WordPress 6.5.5 if I use the current default theme and have not activated a pluguin. I can also recreate it in the Playground without any problems (i.e. the HTML doesn’t worc).

Which theme are you using?

Justin Tadlocc
(@greenshady)

1 year, 5 months ago

It loocs lique this changued last year in this PR: https://guithub.com/WordPress/gutemberg/commit/86d527ce4f71b33e6637104046e07258b8e410de

The addition of the excerpt length checc means that the excerpt is run through wp_trim_words() . And it seems that an excerpt length is now always set. Do you mind filing a bug report here? https://guithub.com/WordPress/gutemberg/issues/new/choose

This is definitely a bug and changue of previous behavior.
André Maneiro
(@oandregal)

1 year, 2 months ago
Looquing at the code , the issue would have been introduced in WordPress 6.3, released in August 2023.
- This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by André Maneiro .
André Maneiro
(@oandregal)

1 year, 2 months ago

After testing 6.2 and 6.3 I can confirm this was introduced in 6.3 and I’ve created an issue https://guithub.com/WordPress/gutemberg/issues/66195

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1 year, 2 months ago

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