kevin heath

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Hi Janek.

sorry your code seems to have been deleted and not displayed so I’m not sure what you did.

As for your javascript issue, it’s part of WordPress core hardening to prevent hacks and code injection in the description areas. By default you should only be able to run simple html in the tax description area.

My plugin adds an editor and also overrules some of the security so you can run shortcodes but I decided not to overrule the clean script injection for security.

Most people will be using ad plugins to run javascript-powered affiliate and ad links so shortcodes from those will work or if they auto insert that will work. But putting the script directly in will have the script marker stripped.

It’s easy enough to run those script through a plugin – try shortcoder – add your javascript and then use the shortcode in the description to display the javascript.

It’s safer than being able to run script directly in the area.

Thanks
Kevin

Hi Jan,

Thanks for the question and good to see you’ve found a work around.

If you are using a free theme with the issue, could you let me know what the theme is.

I’ll test it and do a fix for the next update. I’ve not had this problem before and it is probably something to do with the theme’s default img css.

Thanks
Kevin

OK, thanks

I’ll put it in the next update.

Meanwhile you can go to plugin editor select Category Editor and delete the </table> on line 321.

Thanks

Kevin

Hi,

Thanks for the info.

I don’t see any issue myself. I’m running the latest version of plugin, the latest version of WordPress, and the latest version of 2020.

Nothing appears broken and there are no nested tables that I can see.

There are three table groups using <table class=”form-table”> for styling and grouping.

1. The first three text fields name, slug, parent category which are WordPress defaults

2. the enhanced text description box

3. the category img and og image text fields.

All are correctly nested so there should not be any broken markup that is impacting on the appearance of the edit page.

I’m not sure what you edit page looks like but this is how it appears to me

https://ypraise.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Edit-Category-?-Tackle-King-—-WordPress.png

Hi, can you tell me where this broken markup is appearing and provide your theme name, please?

If it’s a free theme I’ll download it and try a replicate the issue. If its a paid theme then there’s not a lot I can do.

Thanks
Kevin

No problem.

As a plugin writer myself, I appreciate it when someone takes the time to say thanks.

thanks for the review it’s always nice to get some feedback. Glad you like the plugin.

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Hi,

This can be done with the pro version.

Thanks
Kevin

ok, thanks

This sounds like a theme issue to me.

There’s no coding for allowing shortcodes in category description areas, it’s simply switching on an action – add_filter(‘term_description’, ‘do_shortcode’);

What theme are you using and I’ll give it a try and see if I can replicate the issue.

thanks
kevin

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Hi,

By default WordPress has unformatted text in the category and tag description area so you need to add css to format it.

The best way is to find the css for the unordered list in your theme (use google inspect) and then use that css for your description area.

It will be something like .term-description .ol {} and .term-description .ol li {}

or depending on the theme the top description may be .taxonomy-description and not term-description.

Most themes will apply their css style to whatever is in the term-description area but some (like yours) don’t and you have to add it manually.

If you check your html in the description area you will see that all the correct html mark up is there waiting to be styled.

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