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The plugin card block and the embed template printed the excerpt as HTML, while every other consumer of the value (the meta description tags, the JSON-LD, the API) treats it as text, and the readme parser only ever stores text in it. The two templates now strip and escape what they print. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Reviewed this against the branch, and against a WordPress checkout where the behaviour was load-bearing rather than from memory. The change looks right, and the reasoning in the description checks out:
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strip_tags( 'Do this.<br>Then that.' ) === 'Do this.Then that.'The description says the 43 affected excerpts use Smaller notes
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…in excerpt as text. Follow-up to the previous commit. Excerpts that still carry markup from an old plugin file header can hold `<br />` between sentences; stripping the tag alone left the words on either side glued together. The three call sites now share a theme template tag that texturizes, turns line breaks into spaces, strips the remaining tags and collapses whitespace. The escape stays at the point of output. For the record, replacing the_excerpt() drops all seven of core's filters on it: wptexturize (kept via the helper), convert_smilies, convert_chars, wpautop, shortcode_unautop, wp_replace_insecure_home_url and wp_filter_content_tags. The last two are no-ops on text without tags. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Line 825: Update get_plugin_excerpt_text() to normalize structural HTML
boundaries to spaces before calling wp_strip_all_tags(), including
attribute-bearing br tags and adjacent block tags such as p elements. Preserve
the existing remove_breaks behavior and ensure separated text remains separated
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| function get_plugin_excerpt_text() { | ||
| $excerpt = wptexturize( get_the_excerpt() ); | ||
| $excerpt = preg_replace( '#<br\s*/?>#i', ' ', $excerpt ); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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printf '\n--- wp_strip_all_tags bindings ---\n'
rg -n --glob '*.php' 'wp_strip_all_tags\s*\(' .
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rg -n --glob 'version.php' --glob 'composer.json' --glob 'package.json' --glob 'wp-config*.php' 'wp_version|wordpress|WordPress' . | head -80Repository: WordPress/wordpress.org
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find . -type f \( -name 'formatting.php' -o -name 'functions.php' \) -print | head -80
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site:developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_strip_all_tags/ wp_strip_all_tags remove_breaks strip_tags separator behavior
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The wp_strip_all_tags function in WordPress is designed to remove all HTML tags from a string, including the contents of <script> and <style> tags, which distinguishes it from the native PHP strip_tags function [1][2]. Regarding the parameters and behavior: 1. remove_breaks Parameter: This is an optional boolean parameter that defaults to false [1][2]. When set to true, the function uses a regular expression (preg_replace('/[\r\n\t ]+/', ' ', $text)) to replace sequences of line breaks, tabs, and spaces with a single space character [1][2]. 2. strip_tags Behavior: The function internally calls PHP's native strip_tags function after first stripping <script> and <style> blocks [1][2]. 3. Separator Behavior: The function does not use a separator parameter. When $remove_breaks is true, it effectively uses a single space (' ') as a replacement for the matched whitespace sequences [1][2]. 4. Final Output: Regardless of the $remove_breaks setting, the function always returns the result of trim on the final string, ensuring leading and trailing whitespace is removed [1][2].
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- 1: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_strip_all_tags/
- 2: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_strip_all_tags/?output_format=md
Preserve separators before stripping HTML.
get_plugin_excerpt_text() replaces only bare <br> tags. Attribute-bearing tags, such as <br class="...">, reach wp_strip_all_tags() and are removed without adding whitespace. The remove_breaks parameter only normalizes existing whitespace, so the result is FirstSecond. Adjacent block tags, such as <p>First</p><p>Second</p>, have the same issue. Normalize supported structural boundaries to spaces before stripping markup.
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In
`@wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/pub/wporg-plugins-2024/inc/template-tags.php`
at line 825, Update get_plugin_excerpt_text() to normalize structural HTML
boundaries to spaces before calling wp_strip_all_tags(), including
attribute-bearing br tags and adjacent block tags such as p elements. Preserve
the existing remove_breaks behavior and ensure separated text remains separated
after markup stripping.
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Re-reviewed at d9ec459 (plus the trunk merge). The fix I asked for landed and does the job:
Do this.<br>Then that. => Do this. Then that.
A<br />B => A B
A<BR>B => A B
Extracting the helper was the right call too, it keeps the card and the embed provably identical rather than incidentally so.
Everything I verified previously still holds on this head: those are the only three the_excerpt() call sites in the theme, the translation filter survives because class-plugin-directory.php:454 hooks get_the_excerpt rather than the_excerpt, esc_html() does not double-encode so the "identical output" rows in your table stand, the <p> wrapper is load-bearing for .entry-excerpt p { margin: 0 }, and src/ and build/ are in sync. I also checked that nothing in wp-content hooks the_excerpt, the only other reference is wporg-main/front-page.php:244 applying it for a different theme, so dropping the filter chain drops core's callbacks and nothing else, exactly as the description says.
One residual, same class as the original
Leaving this as a comment rather than an approval only because it is a one-liner, and cheaper to fix now than to have a committer land it and find a glued excerpt afterwards. See the inline note.
I would skip CodeRabbit's related point about adjacent block tags (<p>a</p><p>b</p>). Those tags do not occur in this data, and widening the substitution to all tags would insert a space mid-word for foo<strong>bar</strong>, which is a worse trade.
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trim() around wp_strip_all_tags() is redundant, that function already trims its return value.
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| function get_plugin_excerpt_text() { | ||
| $excerpt = wptexturize( get_the_excerpt() ); | ||
| $excerpt = preg_replace( '#<br\s*/?>#i', ' ', $excerpt ); |
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#<br\s*/?>#i only matches bare tags, so an attribute-bearing break still glues the words on either side:
A<br class="clear" />B => AB
which is the case this line exists to prevent. \b[^>]* closes it without affecting anything else:
| $excerpt = preg_replace( '#<br\s*/?>#i', ' ', $excerpt ); | |
| $excerpt = preg_replace( '#<br\b[^>]*>#i', ' ', $excerpt ); |
Whether any of the 43 affected excerpts actually carries an attribute on a <br> I cannot check from here, so this may well be theoretical. It costs one token to rule out.
… plugin excerpt as text. `<br class="…">` was not matched by the bare-tag pattern and still glued the words on either side. Also drop a trim() that wp_strip_all_tags() already does. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Re-reviewed at db7b5715f, checked against the branch rather than from my notes on the previous round.
Both items from the last round landed, and the helper now reads:
$excerpt = wptexturize( get_the_excerpt() );
$excerpt = preg_replace( '#<br\b[^>]*>#i', ' ', $excerpt );
return wp_strip_all_tags( $excerpt, true );I ran that pattern plus core's wp_strip_all_tags() body over the cases that motivated it:
| input | output |
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A<br class="clear" />B |
A B |
A<br/>B |
A B |
A<BR>B |
A B |
<br with a newline before its attributes |
A B |
A<brx>B |
AB (correctly not matched) |
one two\n\nthree |
one two three |
5 < 6 and <p>x |
5 < 6 and x |
\b sits between r and / as well as between r and >, so the bare forms still match and <brx> stays untouched. Dropping the explicit trim() was right too: wp_strip_all_tags() trims unconditionally on its way out, so it was dead code.
Verified on this head
git grep the_excerptacross the theme now returns onlyget_the_excerpt(), the two meta tags infunctions.php:332-333, and the doc comment. Everythe_excerpt()call site in the theme is gone.- Nothing in
wp-contenthooksthe_excerpt, so dropping the filter chain drops core's callbacks and nothing else, exactly as the description says. - The only
get_the_excerpthook in the estate is the translation filter atclass-plugin-directory.php:454, priority 1. Nowptexturizeis attached there, so the manual call is not a double texturize. embed-plugin.phpsits in the sameWordPressdotorg\Plugin_Directory\Themenamespace as the helper, so it resolves without an import, and the card'srender.phphas theuse functionline it needs.src/andbuild/render.php are byte-identical..wp-embed-excerpt(inline CSS atembed-plugin.php:84) has noprule of its own, andthe_excerpt()pluswpautopalready emitted a<p>there, so the embed markup is unchanged. The card still needs its<p>for.entry-excerpt p { margin: 0 }.
One follow-up, not for this PR
functions.php:332-333 build og:description and meta description from a bare strip_tags( get_the_excerpt() ), so they still glue words together across a <br>, the same case this PR just fixed for the card and the embed. Now that a shared helper exists, those two are the obvious next callers. Not worth holding this up for.
LGTM.
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The plugin card block and the plugin embed template print the excerpt with
the_excerpt(), as HTML. Every other consumer of the same value treats it as text: theog:descriptionandmeta descriptiontags (esc_attr( strip_tags( get_the_excerpt() ) )), the JSON-LD (wp_json_encode), and the API'sshort_description. The readme parser only ever stores plain text in the excerpt; the 43 published plugins that still carry tags in it all predate readme short descriptions.What changed
esc_html( get_plugin_excerpt_text() )inside a<p>instead of callingthe_excerpt(). The new template tag ininc/template-tags.phptexturizes, turns<br />into a space, strips the remaining tags and collapses whitespace.get_the_excerpt()keeps the translation filter and the empty-excerpt fallback;wptexturizeruns first so text inside<code>keeps its straight quotes as it does today; the<p>keeps the existing CSS working.the_excerpt()'s filter chain on purpose:convert_smilies,convert_chars,wpautop,shortcode_unautop,wp_replace_insecure_home_urlandwp_filter_content_tags. The last two are no-ops on text without tags.<a>,<strong>,<em>,<code>or<br />render as plain sentences, with a space where a line break was and runs of spaces collapsed. A literal<followed by a word now drops the rest of the excerpt, which is what the readme parser does with the same input.Testing
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environments/plugin-directory(WP trunk), the same four plugin posts on trunk and on this branch, container restarted between the two. The card (search results) and the embed print the same string in both cases.Tools for A & B -- it's "done"...Tools for A & B — it’s “done”…Use <code><?php getRSS('…', '5');?></code> to fetch a <a href="…">feed</a>.<code>and<a>rendered as elements, straight quotes inside<code>Use <?php getRSS('…', '5');?> to fetch a feed.(<p>,<div>,<span) and 5 < 6(then the browser closes the paragraph(,,…aleatoriamente.<br />Uma forma…<br />No admin…(random-thumbs)…aleatoriamente. Uma forma… No admin……of the blog. To these…(nine spaces)START <a id="x" data-x="y" href="#">PCLICK</a> ENDSTART PCLICK ENDProduction: the info API lists 71,547 published plugins, 43 with a tag in
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