[okfn-help] Important: HTML tags being removed on OKFN sites

Thu Mar 7 16:16:44 UTC 2013

I did reply on the trac ticket, a copy of that response is below. I'm on a
deadline today so I probably won't have a chance to look again until
tomorrow.

Without yet doing a thorough investigation, I suspect it relates to a
mixture of these 2 functions/capabilities in WP.
1) wp_kses - takes care of filtering out html tags that aren't allowed,
which by default is most of them.
2) unfiltered_html - controls which users have the ability to get around
the wp_kses function.

Wordpress feels most users need saving from themselves when it comes to
html tags.

I can ensure that certain users (or users of a certain role) have
unfiltered html ability.

I will investigate the version control plugin you linked in your email [1],
I have not used it before. Though I'm hesitant at first as I suspect if it
works similarly to post revisions, the database size could grow rapidly and
maybe cause further performance issues with our host.

1 -  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/version-control

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Joel Rebello <joel.rebello at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hey Bobby,
>
>  Do you know what might be the issue here?
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
> <everton.alvarenga at okfn.org> wrote:
> > Please, who can check this bug I just reported?
> >
> > http://trac.okfn.org/ticket/1404
> >
> > I just fixed a link to the open definition now at this page
> > http://okfn.org/opendata/ and realised the bug is worst than I
> > thought. It also removed all images tags, not only the featured image
> > tag (which is a HTML comment).
> >
> > I believe it could also help if we had a revision control of OKFN
> > blogs pages and posts. I am not sure which plugin is best
> >
> > http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/version-control
> >
> > Please, if someone can help me to restore the original images, I'll be
> thankful.
> >
> > P. S. I was navigating in this page and thinking a way to have it in
> > other languages. Not sure if we can have a more practical way other
> > than only copy and paste.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > --
> > Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
> > OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre
> > http://br.okfn.org
> >
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