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