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can someone explain the wpautop function please? (4 posts)

  1. Ovidiu
    Member
    Posted 17 years ago #

    hello,

    I thought I had understood what it was doing, but recently discovered I was completely wrong so knowing that there are a ton of plugins out there that disable this wpautop function, could someone please explain a bit what exactly it is doing?

  2. quenting
    Member
    Posted 17 years ago #

    format paragraphs, remove dup or empty tags, filter out all but authorized tags and attributes.
    I wouldn't remove it.

  3. Ovidiu
    Member
    Posted 17 years ago #

    how would this be related, if at all, to the kses.php file which removes tags that are not allowed? in which order do these to apply?

  4. quenting
    Member
    Posted 17 years ago #

    I think wp-autop is more of a markup /unnecessary tags check while kses is really security-oriented. I can't be 100% positive though.

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