Excerpt stripping out html

This does not work for me even in WordPress 6.5.5 if I use the current default theme and have not activated a plugin. I can also recreate it in the Playground without any problems (i.e. the HTML doesn’t work).

Which theme are you using?

It looks like this changed last year in this PR: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/commit/86d527ce4f71b33e6637104046e07258b8e410de

The addition of the excerpt length check means that the excerpt is run through wp_trim_words(). And it seems that an excerpt length is now always set. Do you mind filing a bug report here? https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/new/choose

This is definitely a bug and change of previous behavior.

Looking at the code, the issue would have been introduced in WordPress 6.3, released in August 2023.

• This reply was modified 5 days, 1 hour ago by André Maneiro.

After testing 6.2 and 6.3 I can confirm this was introduced in 6.3 and I’ve created an issue https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/66195