Excerpts Not Showing Bold Text ...

[hmnvtn]

The text itself shows, but it does not show the bold attributes as it did up until 6.2.2.

[khokansardar]

@hmnvtn yes, I have also checked, the issue is coming due to this line of code which actually filter excerpt based on excerpt length attributes applied in excerpt block.

<?php
$excerpt = wp_trim_words( $excerpt, $excerpt_length );

[sabernhardt]

Thanks for the report!

The tag removal in the Post Excerpt blocks was already mentioned in a ​comment on the pull request GB44964. However, I did not find a follow-up issue (or pull request) on the Gutenberg repository to fix it. If you would like, you could ​create a new issue there.

[mdxfr]

related to ​https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/15117
and declared there ​https://github.com/lightbulbheaduk/wordpress/issues/1 also

see also https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/59043

[frzsombor]

Coming from similar: #59348

It looks like the "block_type_metadata" filter gives us ability to modify original Gutenberg block settings, and this way it is possible to completely remove the "excerptLength" key from the metadata attributes array. This way we can bypass wp_trim_words() and only get the untrimmed excerpt with HTML content.

function fzs_filter_metadata_registration( $metadata ) {
    if ($metadata['name'] === 'core/post-excerpt') {
        unset($metadata['attributes']['excerptLength']);
    }
    return $metadata;
};
add_filter( 'block_type_metadata', 'fzs_filter_metadata_registration' );

[audrasjb]

As we're getting close to the 6.3.2 release candidate, let's move this ticket to the next release.

[nicolefurlan]

Per ​this comment in Slack it looks like this is still being reproduced in the latest Gutenberg trunk, so this will need a patch.

[nicolefurlan]

Bumping this to 6.5 since this bug is yet to be patched.

[nhrrob]

It has no movement in the last few months (and releases).
Moving to the next milestone (then future release if still doesn't receive any movement).

Still requires patch.

Trac ticket:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/59270
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As wp_trim_words function strips all HTML tags this won't allow doing any formatting to excerpt. I have used wp_kses() here with specific allowed HTML tags.

### Allowed tag list

$allowed_tags = array(
                'a'      => array(
                        'class' => array(),
                        'style' => array(),
                        'href'  => array(),
                        'id'    => array(),
                ),
                'strong' => array(),
                'b'      => array(),
                'em'     => array(),
                'img'    => array(
                        'class'  => array(),
                        'style'  => array(),
                        'src'    => array(),
                        'alt'    => array(),
                        'width'  => array(),
                        'height' => array(),
                ),
                'mark'   => array(
                        'class' => array(),
                        'style' => array(),
                ),
                'code'   => array(
                        'class' => array(),
                        'style' => array(),
                ),
                'kbd'    => array(
                        'class' => array(),
                        'style' => array(),
                ),
                'bdo'    => array(
                        'class' => array(),
                        'style' => array(),
                        'dir'   => array(),
                        'lang'  => array(),

                ),
                'span'   => array(
                        'class' => array(),
                        'style' => array(),
                ),
                'sup'    => array(
                        'class' => array(),
                        'style' => array(),
                ),
                'sub'    => array(
                        'class' => array(),
                        'style' => array(),
                ),
                's'      => array(
                        'class' => array(),
                        'style' => array(),
                ),
        );

### Example output

​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/assets/75293077/da21500c-1176-4ae9-86d0-d6d636a499b3

Hi @swissspidy can you please review this PR?

Hi, thanks for the PR!

I think we should consider passing $allowed_tags as an argument of wp_trim_words() so we can 1) make it optional (and maybe disabled by default? 2) allow extenders to customize it their way.

What do you think?

@audrasjb we can definitely do that.

@mukeshpanchal27 @audrasjb any update for this PR?

@swissspidy can you please review this PR?

Why me specifically? 😅 I am on vacation

@swissspidy Sorry for disturbing you.

[peterwilsoncc]

I've posted some notes on the associated pull request.

I think this is an enhancement to the function wp_trim_words() rather than a bug, so I've changed the ticket type and removed it from the WordPress 6.7 milestone as it's now in a bug fix phase.