Comments on: WordPress Strips Classnames, And How To Fix It

By: Data Unbound » How WordPress Sanitizes Tags and Attributes

Data Unbound » How WordPress Sanitizes Tags and Attributes — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:51:36 +0000

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Unfilter MU’s Filters | Page 2 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:02:53 +0000

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By: dieselboi

dieselboi — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:30:05 +0000

woo hooo. that totally worked!

By: Alpha

Alpha — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:43:46 +0000

Wordpress should replaces their kses code with the code used in this modified version of kses — http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1752954&group_id=81853&atid=564260

The modified kses produces better HTML, fixes bugs, allows CSS usage, etc.

By: Casey Bisson

Casey Bisson — Thu, 17 May 2007 00:42:13 +0000

Yeah, it’s pretty frustrating when you don’t know what’s going on. And only a little less frustrating once you do.

Still, it helps those who don’t know what they’re doing (and those who do, but have malicious intent) from breaking things.

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Tue, 15 May 2007 20:18:07 +0000

So this is why WP stripped out so many classes and IDs when I switched platforms and imported my old MT posts? Good to know. Man, that pissed me off, but by the time I’d realized what happened it seemed too late to go back and try again. Besides, I had no idea how to fix it.