id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
21753,Feed excerpts are missing important filter formatting,mdgl,,"Excerpts included in feeds are missing important formatting because the relevant filters are not applied (e.g. wpautop).

In file wp-includes/feed.php, function the_excerpt_rss() does not apply the same filters as the_excerpt() whilst results in lost formatting instructions.  By comparison, function the_content_feed() ensures that the same filters declared for the_content() are applied.

A suggested patch is attached. Note that for symmetry between the_excerpt_rss() and the_content_feed() this patch also removes the (unnecessary?) filter ent2ncr() from the_excerpt_rss() and retains the (controversial?) escaping for CDATA blocks (see #3670).

A few related issues are worth mentioning. Firstly, shortcodes are still not applied to excerpts (see #7093). Also, the (obsolete?) RDF feed does not make use of a CDATA block unlike those for RSS, RSS2 and Atom (see #20888). Finally, a similar problem occurs with comment text in feeds (see #16466).",defect (bug),new,normal,Awaiting Review,Feeds,3.4.1,normal,,,