Comments on: Tag descriptions in WordPress 2.8

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:52:50 +0000

hey I got it..
I had to use a combination of a couple of functions for tags and get the description.

Thanks

-Dave

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:00:45 +0000

Hi,

Your post was very helpful. But I need to get the formatting done to the description. Right now its showing all in a single line and omitting all new lines and other formatting.
Can you pls advise how I can format the description?

Awaiting your reply!
-Dave.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:21:28 +0000

Oh nevermind, I just had the smashing idea of using trim:

And the evil new line is removed! Yay.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:56:56 +0000

One small problem I’ve encountered is that in the source code, there’s a new line after description generated by the PHP. Like this:

Just a minor annoyance, but I wonder what’s up with that?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:51:22 +0000

Awesome tip. I’ve just been looking for a way to use tag descriptions as meta descriptions for tag pages. The problem was Wordpress kept wrapping the description in p tags But your tip fixed it.

By: Will

Will — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:36:27 +0000

Is it possible to use Javascript in tag descriptions?

Perhaps this can be achieved by adding a line to functions.php?
(like the solution to use full HTML)

Thank you

By: KnockOut

KnockOut — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:20:42 +0000

You can use full HTML in your tag descriptions by adding the following to functions.php

remove_filter( 'pre_term_description', 'wp_filter_kses' );
remove_filter( 'term_description', 'wp_kses_data' );

It worked for me!

By: Matt Halfhill

Matt Halfhill — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:15:22 +0000

I have been building out my tag.php in my template to offer as much relevant content as possible when an incoming reader lands on this page. Something I wanted to do was provide a picture as well as brief writeup about the topic of the tag. I hacked the functions.php so that I could input images, links, paragraphs, and other HTML into this field, but when I call it via , all i get is just the stripped down text. I have added the remove_filter( 'term_description', 'wp_kses_data' );, but no dice.

By: Ste

Ste — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:02:09 +0000

Hi,

I use tag descriptions on my site to great effect. The one problem i do have, however, is that it seems to strip some of the html tags.

If the text is more than one paragraph it strips all the tags except for the first and last, and replaces them with instead.

Do you know any way around this?

Thanks!

By: Ralf

Ralf — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:51:23 +0000

Hi,

remove_filter( ‘term_description’, ‘wp_kses_data’ )
is working well for strong or italic, but I like to use in the description. Do you see any way to manage this?

Ralf