[Plugin: WP Photo Album Plus] Lost HTML which was working, on 16 albums

I have figured out what is wrong with the HTML in descriptions. It appears that the only tag that is currently working is the line break tag
.

Can you use other tags in yours? Like <div> and <p>?

I don’t know about those, but I know that <i></i> and <b> and </b> work.

If anybody could please finally tell me what is wrong there, i might be able to help.

As far as i can see the example div above works. The text is white (rgb255,255,255), the fontsize.. all specs in the div are working.
https://beta.opajaap.nl/test/?lang=nl&wppa-album=23&wppa-slide&wppa-occur=1&wppa-photo=220px-Marco_Porcio_Caton_Major.jpg

If you use the New photo desc (Table IX-B3,4), and upload a photo straight from the camera (not manipulated before with a simple program) you will see that even a table and anchor tags with js in the onclick work with embedded shortcodes to exif data…
https://wppa.opajaap.nl/photo-album-test-post/?wppa-album=60&wppa-slide&wppa-occur=1&wppa-photo=HPIM0687.JPG
press the Camera info link

Thank you for response.
What is going on here is that
was tested and worked
so you saw the result. No html to start or end was used.

Before that, I had standard html on the 16 albums done and working.
However, after an upgrade, html was not working.
Tried everything, read thru some pages of your Forum,
checked all that had to be checked, as far as I knew.
Had some help but nothing worked,
except the
and before that the longer version, as in my first post.

Since I have about 80 albums up on WPPA in my Archives,
and all have to have html, some with long text and lots of
credits, I hope the
will function long term
because I will have about 100 albums up there eventually,
some with over 20 photos in each. Very time-consuming to
do html in the first place and will be more so if I have to
change later!
(Perhaps now you can realize my pleas for an Edit more clearly!!)

FYI, all photos are Photoshop manipulated and I add them all by .zip,
a very fast easy process, some odd ones are added singly.

The Archives are very important to me, a serious endeavor, my life’s
work, a lot of work, so hope the
is the answer??????
Thank you for your help.

br with back ticks is what worked, just br with backticks. Didn’t show in above post.

Edit album page:
wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wppa_admin_menu&tab=edit&edit_id=40&wppa_nonce=ca0ad7fb5a

Screenshot

We have hundreds of photo descriptions that used to display correctly with <p> tags like this one:

<em>Original description that used to work with HTML tags:</em>

<p>The scene, with Peter Gray in action at the Betsey Johnson show, hairties worn as bracelets, at the ready.  He used a lot of Redken products to help make the hair great - Redken Outshine 01 Anti-Frizz, Polishing Milk Full Frame 07, Protective Volumizing Mousse, Wool Shake 08, last but not least - Gel-Slush Texturizer.Hair: Peter Gray for Redken 5th Avenue, NYCMakeup: Sarah Lucero, Stila for Beauty.comFashions: Betsey JohnsonPhoto: Helen Oppenheim</p>
<p>ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ? HELEN OPPENHEIM 2012c

Now it appears that the <p> tags do not work any more and if you try to use them it will break the <br> tags from working as well.
<em>
New description that works with <br> and will not work with <p> tags added:</em>

The scene, with Peter Gray in action at the Betsey Johnson show, hairties worn as bracelets, at the ready.  He used a lot of Redken products to help make the hair great - Redken Outshine 01 Anti-Frizz, Polishing Milk Full Frame 07, Protective Volumizing Mousse, Wool Shake 08, last but not least - Gel-Slush Texturizer.
<br>
Hair: Peter Gray for Redken 5th Avenue, NYC
<br>
Makeup: Sarah Lucero, Stila for Beauty.com
<br>
Fashions: Betsey Johnson
<br>
Photo: Helen Oppenheim
<br>
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ? HELEN OPPENHEIM 2012

These images have been edited and input via FTP without using the “New Image” upload functions.

Thanks,

Ralph

I found this old post about fixing an html coding error in 3.0 and could not find the snippet of code in the new plugin files.

Maybe something similar needs to be implemented in the code to get HTML to work again??

Good luck,
Ralph

It looks as if i finally understand the problem!! HurraH.

Edit wppa-functions.php and remove line 1066:

$desc = str_replace(array("<p>", "</p>", "<br>"), " ", $desc);

This filter, to remove (usually) unwanted tags, will be optionally in the next version, so please report if this solves your problem…

I commented out line 2111 but there was no change.

// $desc = str_replace(array("<p>", "</p>", "<br />"), " ", $desc); // commented out to fix HTML in photo descriptions

Thanks,
Ralph

You can now uncheck Table IV-B10

Don’t have a “Table IV-B10”

I fixed all the descriptions by hacking the database and removing over one hundred thousand HTML tags that do not work anymore.

For others that are having the same problem and are comfortable editing your SQL database in a text editor I recommend these steps.

1. Download your database and open it in Notepad++. Save as a copy to edit so you have the original to fall back on!

2. Replace all </p><p> combinations with
for a next line continuation of text and
</br> for a double line.

3. Find and replace remaining <p> tags with nothing.

4. 3. Find and replace remaining </p> tags with nothing.

Example before:
<p>BIKER TRIP HAIR "The hair was intentionally chaotic! Multi-textured dreadlocks with colored ties" Peter Gray said at the Betsey Johnson show during Fashion Week SS11.</p><p> Nails by Nomie Crème, Butter London. (Betsey Pink, Royal Navy, Cheeky Chops Yellow.)</p><p>Hair: Peter Gray for Redken 5th Avenue, NYC</p><p>Makeup: Sarah Lucero, Stila for Beauty.com</p><p>Nails: Nomie Crème, Butter London</p><p>Fashions: Betsey Johnson</p><p>Photo: Helen Oppenheim</p><p> All rights reserved ? Helen Oppenheim 2012 </p>

Example after:
BIKER TRIP HAIR "The hair was intentionally chaotic! Multi-textured dreadlocks with colored ties" Peter Gray said at the Betsey Johnson show during Fashion Week SS11.<br> Nails by Nomie Crème, Butter London. (Betsey Pink, Royal Navy, Cheeky Chops Yellow.)<br></br>Hair: Peter Gray for Redken 5th Avenue, NYC<br>Makeup: Sarah Lucero, Stila for Beauty.com<br>Nails: Nomie Crème, Butter London<br>Fashions: Betsey Johnson<br>Photo: Helen Oppenheim<br> All rights reserved ? Helen Oppenheim 2012

Special characters that need to be replaced (or text will fail to display anything after special character:

?			(copyright)
Replace with:
??

?			(trademark)
Replace with:
a€?

“			(left quote)
Replace with:
a€?“

”			(right quote)
Replace with:
a€”

é			(e acute accent)
Replace with:
?é

è			(e grave accent )
?è

There are others that are not listed here. If you find text that has suddenly stopped or disapeared, check your backup for the text and see if ther is a special charater in place and copy it the the new edited database.

Be careful not to edit any “code” just description html and keep a backup!

Good luck,

Ralph

Wow, Ralph, you’re a genius. And so kind. What a nightmare!!!! Putting me so far behind. I’m suffering.

Well, give opajaap some time to figure it out. I’m sure he is going nuts trying to fix the problem and if he could create the very complex plugin in the first place, I have no doubt that he will find the answers to the problem.

Time is on the side of he who has patience… Unfortunately, most people don’t!

OK, thanks. I found a lot more of html that had been done is missing today. Very distressed. I am sure he will fix it very soon. I’ll try to be patient.

12Buckle

Update plugin and uncheck Table IV-B10 in WPPA settings.

After update and re-importing original database everything seams to be working again.

Thanks opajaap… I knew you would get it!

Ralph