Arno Esterhuizen

Yes, as far as I know newlines are automatically used to split the text into paragraphs. Is this your experience as well?

Can you send me some samples or a place to view it?

Cheers
Arno

OK, the plugin’s SVN source has been updated. Please test and see if it works for everyone?

Cheers
Arno

OK, so that was easy…

Copy the text below into a text file and save it as html-in-category-descriptions.php in your plugins directory.

Cheers
Arno Esterhuizen

<?php
/*
  Plugin Name: HTML in Category Descriptions
  Version: 1.0
  Plugin URI:
  Description: Allows you to add HTML code in category descriptions
  Author: Arno Esterhuizen
  Author URI: ****
*/

$filters = array('pre_term_description', 'pre_link_description', 'pre_link_notes', 'pre_user_description');
foreach ( $filters as $filter ) {
    remove_filter($filter, 'wp_filter_kses');
}

?>

In wp-includes/default-filters.php, comment out add_filter($filter, 'wp_filter_kses');, like shown below (line 29).

$filters = array('pre_term_description', 'pre_link_description', 'pre_link_notes', 'pre_user_description');
foreach ( $filters as $filter ) {
      //add_filter($filter, 'wp_filter_kses');
}

A better option might be to write a plugin to do it, but I can’t help you there — yet.

Cheers
Arno