link is being stripped, how to stop?

adding asterisks to try to fool the editor …

When I try to post this:
*<*a class=”post-handle” href=”#” data-timestamp=”2.09″*>*my link*<*/a*>*

The post ends up as:
*<*a class=”post-handle” href=”#”*>*my link*<*/a*>*

How can I stop WP from swallowing the data-timestamp=”2.16″ portion?

Thanks,

ted

Depending a the user’s permissions, WordPress will whitelist certain html elements and attributes and then remove those elements/attributes not found in the whitelist before it saves to the database.

To add a “data-timestamp” attribute to an anchor (link) tag try adding this code to your theme’s functions.php:

function add_data_timestamp_attribute_to_anchor( $tags, $context ) {
        if ( 'post' !== $context && ! in_array( 'post', $context ) ) {
                return $tags;
        }

        $tags['a']['data-timestamp'] = true;

        return $tags;
}
add_filter( 'wp_kses_allowed_html', 'add_data_timestamp_attribute_to_anchor', 10, 2 );

PS To have your code appear as text you need to surround the code with a “backtick” mark on each side (press the code button on top of the textarea to add one automatically).

ended up using the solution here.

Fair notice, I actually went back to jkovis’ solution, “add_data_timestamp_attribute_to_anchor”. Thank you again to jkovis.