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Is there a way to prevent WP from stripping the HTML from the author bio? I need it to keep my paragraphs.

Thanks in advance! :)

Edit - Although this question has been answered, I will clarify that I was referring to the Bio textarea when editing individual users.

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The WYSIWYG editor allows html in WordPress so are you referring to some author bio input elsewhere? Please be a bit more specific where you mean. – Brady♦ Jun 28 '11 at 16:00

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remove the filter that formats the description. put this in your theme's functions.php:

remove_filter('pre_user_description', 'wp_filter_kses');

EDIT - I should mention, if you allow random people to register and add their own bio for display on the site, not filtering that text could enable bad things.

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Oh, excellent! The solutions I was finding were about editing the core, and this will be much better! Thanks! – 5t3ph Jun 28 '11 at 16:09
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Why not add a more permissive filter after removing the default filter? e.g. add_filter( 'pre_user_description', 'wp_filter_post_kses' ); that way, user-input content isn't completely unsanitized. – Chip Bennett Jun 28 '11 at 16:31

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