Editing Event Descriptions Shows HTML

[Jonathan Goldford]

Hi,

We recently turned off the visual editor for adding new events and editing events. It looks like once you create a description, then try to edit it, HTML is shown. For example, if the original description is:

“This is a test.”

Then upon editing the description will say:

“This is a test.”

Since the community doesn’t know HTML is there any way to avoid them seeing HTML?

Thanks a ton.

Jonathan

[Jonathan Goldford]

Sorry, but it looks like when I submitted the request the HTML was actually used in my post. When editing the description will look like:

“This is a test.”

Thanks.

Jonathan

[Jonathan Goldford]

Haha. It looks like it happened again even with spaces in the HTML. There should be p tags just outside “This” and “test.”.

Thanks.

[Casey]

Jonathan,
Yes, that’s because when those events were initially created using the visual editor, the description was saved as HTML. If you continue to use the non-Visual editor for adding/editing events, then I would suggest editing out the HTML for existing events. You should only have to do this for events that were submitted with the Visual Editor, since no HTML will be submitted using the non-visual editor.

I hope that helps to answer your question. Thanks!

[Jonathan Goldford]

Got it. Thanks a lot Casey. Is there an easy way to remove the HTML if we have hundreds of events that used the visual editor? I assume we could use some kind of PHP script, but I’d rather not take the risk with the database if possible.

Thanks a lot.

Jonathan

[Casey]

Jonathan,
The only way to do something like this would be to edit the plugin files, which I don’t recommend. If you only wanted to display plain text when editing an event that has an HTML description, you could change line 2109 of ‘lib/tribe-community-events.class.php’ to something like this:


echo strip_tags($post_content);


This would basically strip out all HTML tags before displaying them in the textarea field.

Keep in mind that these changes will be lost when you update the plugin, so consider that your warning. 😉

Good luck!

[Jonathan Goldford]

Got it Casey. Thanks a lot for the quick responses. I’ll talk with our client and we’ll move forward. Feel free to mark closed.

[Casey]

Great! Glad to help! Feel free to start another thread if you have further questions.

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