wp_insert_post is stripping target="_blank" in version 3.8te

[wpmate]

When using the wp_insert_post function in php code it strips out the 'target="_blank"' tag from the $post_data[\'post_content\']. This is occurring in version 3.8

When manually creating a post the tags are not stripped.

[bcworkz]

I'm unable to replicate this. In what context are you calling wp_insert_post()?

[wpmate]

It occurs programmatically ie in a php script. If you compose a post containing target="_blank" and use a script something like below to create the post, the target="_blank" 'disappears'

$post_data = compact('post_content','post_title','post_date','post_date_gmt','post_author','post_category', 'post_status', 'tags_input','post_parent','post_type','post_mime_type','guid','tax_input');

$post_data = add_magic_quotes($post_data);

$post_ID = wp_insert_post($post_data);
return $post_ID;

[nacin]

Unfiltered versus filtered HTML, perhaps?

[chriscct7]

Replying to nacin:

Unfiltered versus filtered HTML, perhaps?

My thoughts as well.

No reporter feedback in 2 years. Closing as worksforme