Wordpress RSS feed showing HTML tags on front page:

[Roz Townsend]

Hello again - this is a different issue to our other thing going on with the RSS feeds in our dev environment, so I thought it was appropriate to open a new thread.

We have a Wordpress RSS feed that displays on the front page. Wordpress wraps the description tag in the RSS feed in CDATA, which I understand is used to render special characters. 

Because of this, the description section on our blog posts is rendering the HTML code as characters on the front page. Is there a way to have the HTML render on the front page while keeping the CDATA that is automatically generated by Wordpress? Screencap for reference:

[Graeme Porteous]

Looks like this is rendering the frontpage blog posts, in which case the partial used is `app/views/general/_frontpage_blog.html.erb` [1]

If you trust the external content and you want to rendered HTML in the post descriptions, this can be done by changing the line:

<%= post.description %>

to:

<%= raw post.description %>

The alternative is to sanitize tags to stripping all but known-safe tags and attributes, done by:

<%= sanitize post.description %>

[1] https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/blob/develop/app/views/general/_frontpage_blog.html.erb

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