Comments on: Rich Text Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Descriptions for WordPress

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:21:02 +0000

To allow images you need to add this to the functions file
remove_filter( ‘term_description’, ‘wp_kses_data’ ); remove_filter( ‘pre_term_description’, ‘wp_filter_kses’ ); /*added to allow tag images and html*/ I use it and it works on 2.9.2

By: Scot Hacker

Scot Hacker — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:49:24 +0000

Ack – paragraph breaks are being stripped out in 2.9.1 (like JHouse says above). This is a show stopper.
The other plugin with similar functionality:
http://www.laptoptips.ca/projects/category-description-editor/
doesn’t have this problem, but it doesn’t allow direct media upload like yours does. If only the bugs in these two plugins would cancel each other out…

By: Scot Hacker

Scot Hacker — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:16:17 +0000

This plugin isn’t stripping out the IMG tags – you can save and then view source to confirm that your image paths are still there. The problem is that as of WP 2.9, the WP category_description function strips out IMG and other tags.
The fix is here, and it’s simple:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/343659?replies=7
Nutshell: Just use this in your archive.php template instead:
$category = get_the_category();
echo $category[0]->category_description;

By: JHouse

JHouse — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:36:33 +0000

Very cool plugin. I got it working partially, but I couldn’t separate the text into paragraphs. Well, I could in the editor, but it wouldn’t show on the main site. I added the function code you provided as well, but no dice. Also, every time I added pasted text (I was working on text in a text editor), it would oddly add it twice. Any thoughts as to what’s causing this?
Thanks.

By: Sjoerd

Sjoerd — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:07:30 +0000

Hi,
Did you already find a solution for the problem with the

and tags? I’ve used allot of lists in my tag descriptions and WP strips them all.. :S
Bye,
Sjoerd

By: Damiano

Damiano — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:37:16 +0000

Hi,
adding that string doesn’t work, at least for

and image… I also upgraded to Wordpress 2.9.1. If I’ll find something useful, I’ll posti it here.
Bye

By: Zack Katz

Zack Katz — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:55:53 +0000

Hi Damiano, that should have been taking care of automatically when using the plugin...but you can always try adding the same code again to your functions.php file:

remove_filter( 'pre_term_description', 'wp_filter_kses' );

By: Damiano

Damiano — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:31:22 +0000

Hi! Great plugin, but seems that category_description() strips the html tags out from descriptions… Any hints? I’m using Wordpress 2.9. Thank you however!

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By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:31:52 +0000

Help! I am using Thesis with open hook and when I enter the code you give to to my archives.php page to allow my category descriptions to appear on my site like the Anderson Windows example it doesn’t work.

Any idea what I could be doing wrong?