http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-09-11/a-note-about-your-wordpress-blogs-tagline The personal weblog of Peter Hosey. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:03:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-09-11/a-note-about-your-wordpress-blogs-tagline#comment-120936 Jeff Johnson Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:04:01 +0000 http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-09-11/a-note-about-your-wordpress-blogs-tagline#comment-120936 I think that the tagline is intended to be plain text, not HTML. In WordPress 2.2 they specify type="text" for the field. My suspicion is that strip_tags() is called to remove XML tags for the purpose of preparing the tagline to appear in the feed XML. The problem is that strip_tags() doesn't take care of other characters that would be problematic in XML, such as the ampersand. So that may be a bug which still exists in WordPress 2.2. In general, though, support for syndication seems to be much improved in 2.2. It's pretty bad in 2.1; for example, Atom 0.3 was deprecated years ago. I think that the tagline is intended to be plain text, not HTML. In WordPress 2.2 they specify type="text" for the field. My suspicion is that strip_tags() is called to remove XML tags for the purpose of preparing the tagline to appear in the feed XML. The problem is that strip_tags() doesn't take care of other characters that would be problematic in XML, such as the ampersand. So that may be a bug which still exists in WordPress 2.2. In general, though, support for syndication seems to be much improved in 2.2. It's pretty bad in 2.1; for example, Atom 0.3 was deprecated years ago.

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