jfriedl

Same problem…. suddenly with the new update (6.1.1, from something a few months ago) non-logged-in users can’t enter into comments HTML like <span class=”> that they could before. I look at kses.php and see that <span> and class=” seem to be allowed, and hours of digging through code hasn’t been fruitful.

I’d very much appreciate an idea where to look. I particularly need to allow the CLASS attribute for <p>, <div>, and <span>….

I figured out that the plugin seems to require such a post to exist, so deleting it only sees it created again. I want wp_posts to be nothing but articles, with IDs increasing by 1 so that it shows a count, but it seems with WordPress’ recent desire to create “revision” and “draft” posts up the wazoo, this is a fight I’m destined to lose.

FWIW, one can undo the dorkage by adding a one-line plugin:

remove_filter(‘comment_text’, ‘wp_kses_data’);

The “delete all spam” thing is apparently new in 2.7, so you’ll want to upgrade.

I, too, wonder how to automatically delete items that get marked as spam. I have a vanilla WordPress 2.7 install with no spam-related plugins except one I wrote myself that simply aborts if a CAPTCHA test fails. Yet, the DB still fills up with hundreds of comments in the “spam” category each day. They’re never visible to the public, nor to me unless I look for them in the dashboard, so it’s not a big deal (I go and delete them every so often), but I’m perplexed as to what is marking them as spam in the first place.

As I said, I have only the one comment-related plugin, and comments that it blocks never make it to the database, period (as spam or otherwise), so something else is marking the comments as spam. I’m appreciative, but perplexed.

If I can find out what is marking them as spam, then perhaps I can figure out a way to tell it “just delete the comments; don’t even insert into the DB as spam”…..