html tags showing up on website

What were the last updates/changes you made before the issue occurred?

I was having issues with wp catalogue plug in and was advised to deactivate then reactive all plugins. I did not add anything new, just reactivated what was already in use. Somehow it affected just the Featured pages links on the home page but not the full article pages. Im at a loss.

I’m having the same issue. HTML tags appear on the Featured Pages.

Keep seeing similar posts. I think there is a BUG for Nic to sort out.

I had the same problem just by updating the theme from 3.0.5 to 3.0.8, html tags are shown inside the featured pages both on the customizr screen and on the frontpage. I’m not an expert on php or wordpress but I saw a change into \customizr\inc\admin\class-admin-customize.php the function tc_sanitize_textarea was using esc_textarea and now has been changed to use esc_html. From my understanding the first function strips tags leaving just plain text whereas the latter escape html tags so they can be displayed in clear (like in source view). The change was made on purpose in version 3.0.7 but I don’t think this was the desired behavior:

= 3.0.7 =
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* improved : use esc_html tags in featured page text and slider captions