HTML stripped on home page – want it active

The Raw HTML plugin might do what you want.

I am giving that a shot as we speak – thank you for taking the time to read my post vtxyzzy.

No luck with that plugin.

I’m thinking this has to be related to my theme; for whatever reason it is not written in a way that allows pairing with a excerpt-controlling plugin.

For those with more knowledge than myself, is this something I can fix via only the excerpt.php code or are other theme files going to need to be altered as well?

see if you can locate the function content_limit():
<?php content_limit(400); ?>
which seems to generate your content.

and maybe post it here?

from my excerpt.php file, starting with the line of code you asked for:

<?php content_limit(400); ?>
        </div>
        <div class="clear"></div>
        <div class="excerpt_data">

            <div class="excerpt_right">
                <div class="excerpt_but">
                    <?php comments_popup_link('Comment', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?>
                </div>

            </div>
        <div class="clear"></div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Toying with the ‘400’ number makes my excerpts longer but the html is still stripped. No links, no font formatting, all text smushed together etc. I have tried changing the word ‘excerpt_data’ to ‘content_data’ and this has made no visible changes.

I’m sure a fix isn’t far off, but at the same time me playing around with the code and trying any number of permutations is like likely to result in a positive result.

Any and all help appreciated thank you.

thanks. i found the function in functions.php, and it contains:

$content = strip_tags($content);

which removes all html tags from the shortened content.
there is no workaround for it, as it would otherwise result in invalid code and could lead to browser problems.

you could try and replace <?php content_limit(400); ?> in your posted code with <?php the_content('...'); ?> and put a more tag into all your articles at the right position.
and see if/how this works with the theme.

Wow alchymyth I cannot thank you enough. With your advice here’s what I’ve done to keep the html from being stripped from my posts:

I removed $content = strip_tags($content); entirely from my template.php file, as an experiment. To my surprise my pages load just fine without it and the html is not stripped! I haven’t clicked through my whole site but so far so good.

Further helping my problem, I changed the number in <?php content_limit(400); to a value of 2000, which essentially means that I am now in total control of any “Read More” links should they be needed.

Now all of my html shows on my homepage: images, links, formatting etc.

Thank you for taking the time to look at my site and digging through my php files. I didn’t even post my template.php code so it says a lot that you were willing to go the extra mile in helping me with my question.

To show my gratitude and if you’re interested, I would be glad to exchange a reciprocal link with you between our sites.

Re-reading this and i want to clarify for those looking for this solution for their own theme:

I removed $content = strip_tags($content); entirely from my FUNCTIONS.php file, not template.php.

I changed the number in <?php content_limit(400); to a value of 2000, which essentially means that I am now in total control of any “Read More” links should they be needed. This code was edited within my excerpt.php file.