[Plugin: Facebook] social publisher : remove html tags

Same question here, because this looks awful. :p

Actually, I solved the problem, you have to add strip_tags() to the 'caption' and 'description' rows in fb-social-publisher.php.

So from this:

'caption' => apply_filters( 'the_excerpt', get_the_excerpt() ),
'description' => fb_strip_and_format_desc( $post ),

you’ll get this at 6 occurrences:

'caption' => strip_tags( apply_filters( 'the_excerpt', get_the_excerpt() ) ),
'description' => strip_tags( fb_strip_and_format_desc( $post ) ),

Don’t forget the ‘)’-s before the commas. ??

I still couldn’t fix that hyphens are not to be converted to #&8211; in the published post.

Thank you for your solution. It works fine

Note : Facebook is also preparing a fix for next version of the extension (see this message).

Oh, great, thanks!

Thanks @agig112! Would you mind contributing the code to https://github.com/facebook/wordpress?

Yeah, sure. ??

How do you get hyphens to show as #&8211;? They work fine on my site

@agig112, did you submit a pull request at https://github.com/facebook/wordpress? Thanks!

Task at https://github.com/facebook/wordpress/issues/193

@agig112 thank you so much! I am not technical at all but I managed to follow your fix and it workes!!!

thanks, you’re ace.
worked perfectly!

ALSO, to *stop thee weird #&8211;* you can use this character:
“?”

do not use this character:
“-” (yes, it’s different! this one fails while the top one works)

Yes, I figured this out too, you have to paste special characters directly in the title and the beginning of the post. From here (Column “Display”).