Preserving HTML in Excerpt when "Enable More Tag Protection" is on

Hi have you tried testing one of WordPress default themes like Twenty Fifteen? Can you share your URL?

Thanks for the reply. I just activated Twenty Fifteen and get the same result. I then deactivated all plugins, one by one, and tested after each deactivation. Also get the same result.

This site is under construction and protected by a plugin preventing public access. I have just sent a message via the Contact form on your website with information on how I can give you access to view it.

The site is now live to the public, so I can share the URL. And I really want to get something figured out!

A view-source on the below example will show there are actually 5 “paragraphs” in the teaser content but there is only whitespace between them and no <p> or any HTML at all, resulting in one large text block.

This is just one example but all teasers on protected content are formatting the same:

https://www.markmontieth.com/one-on-one/larry-bird/

Can you add the following <p> </p> tags to each paragraph? Let me know if that works for you.

Thanks for the reply. Yes, that works. I added the tags to the same article linked above and now it’s formatting properly.

The goal, of course, is to not have to manually do that if at all possible since we have over 300 pieces of protected content. What is stripping out the <p> tags when logged out, that isn’t doing the same thing when logged in?

You might like to install a plugin to prevent WordPress from removing <p> and
tags from post and pages. There is one plugin I recommend WP Edit.

If your issue is resolved can you mark this support thread as resolved.

Thank you

I installed WP Edit on a test site but cannot find any setting that accomplishes what I am seeking. I realize it’s not your plugin, but what setting are you recommending that I change?

There is one setting for “Disable wpautop() – Disable the filter responsible for removing p and br tags.” but I do not get any change whether it is on or off.

Since I installed your plugin on a totally separate test site and am getting the same results, are there any other users that have encountered this issue and arrived at a solution?

Unfortunately the plugin does not control this factor in WordPress. As I mentioned above you will have to add the <p> tags for now until a better solutions shows up. You might need to search in the WordPress repository for a different plugin that controls the excerpt.

Thank you for your continued responses. I have tried several plugins and several functions that I’ve found on other support forums and blogs and nothing is working.

The issue seems to be that plugins are designed to alter a WP-generated excerpt, but in this case a ‘more tag’ is being used.

Further information that might help to shed light on the problem:

On my test site, I created a new post utilizing a More tag. I did not add any <p> tags manually, just typed the post in Visual view in the editor. When I set the protection to “No, do not protect this content”, the paragraphs are preserved. When I change the protection to “Yes, Protect this Content” and refresh, the tags are stripped resulting in the one single block of text.

Thank you for reporting back and providing more information about this issue. The plugin developers will investigate further your issue.

Regards

Hey guys.

Thanks for a wonderful plugin. Much appreciated.

Just wondering if any solution was ever found to this problem. Having to put the tags manually for every post is kinda tedious.

Thanks.

@kusaziva you might want to start a new support thread. This thread is 1 year old.

Regards

Original poster here. @kusaziva, I never heard anything back so I believe the issue is still unresolved.

@matt6303, sorry about this. This is probably one of those questions that sometimes gets lost. I have sent a message to the developers to look into this issue.

Thank you

If you are showing the excerpt, then I am pretty sure it strips all HTML content from there (that’s how the excerpt is created by wordpress).

The more tag feature of this plugin doesn’t intentionally remove any HTML code. This plugin woks with whatever content is given to it by WordPress via the filter hook.