Title: Missing formatting?
Last modified: October 10, 2019

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# Missing formatting?

 *  [vecerama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vecerama/)
 * (@vecerama)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-formatting/)
 * The wordpress feed delivers content with formatting
    [https://simplybetterliving.sharpusa.com/feed/](https://simplybetterliving.sharpusa.com/feed/)
   ======================================================= <p>One of my favorite
   uses for open shelves is to section off a separate space in the kitchen for a
   tea and coffee bar. I love to start our morning with a cup of hazelnut coffee.
   Having a different section of my kitchen for all my tea and coffee must-haves
   is not only convenient but also adds a café feeling to my kitchen. The whole 
   space gives off a cozy feel that makes me want to curl up with a big cup of coffee
   and a good book!</p> <h2>Small Spaces</h2> ==================================
   =====================
 * But when I call the same content with CSRSS, I lose all P and BR tags.
    [https://simplybetterliving.sharpusa.com/?call_custom_simple_rss=1](https://simplybetterliving.sharpusa.com/?call_custom_simple_rss=1)
   ======================================================= One of my favorite uses
   for open shelves is to section off a separate space in the kitchen for a tea 
   and coffee bar. I love to start our morning with a cup of hazelnut coffee . Having
   a different section of my kitchen for all my tea and coffee must-haves is not
   only convenient but also adds a café feeling to my kitchen. The whole space gives
   off a cozy feel that makes me want to curl up with a big cup of coffee and a 
   good book! <h2>Small Spaces</h2> ============================================
   ===========
 * I currently have “SHOW CONTENT AS IS” enabled, so I am not sure why P and BR 
   tags are being dropped. How can I get them back?
 * Please let me know.
 * Matthew
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fmissing-formatting%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [danikoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danikoo/)
 * (@danikoo)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-formatting/#post-12019229)
 * Hi Matthew,
    try using ‘show clean html’ and make sure the tags you aish to show
   are in the allowed html tags list
 * please let me know if that helped
 *  Thread Starter [vecerama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vecerama/)
 * (@vecerama)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-formatting/#post-12020974)
 * Chrome doesn’t seem to want to validate it with “show clean html”
    ==========
   ============================================= This page contains the following
   errors: error on line 61 at column 34: Encoding error Below is a rendering of
   the page up to the first error.
 * Simply Better Living SHARP | Simply Better Living [https://simplybetterliving.sharpusa.com](https://simplybetterliving.sharpusa.com)
   Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:34:20 +0000 Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:34:20 +0000 Matthew Vecera
   11524 2019-10-10 15:34:20 2019-10-10 15:34:20 111
    ==========================
   =============================
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by [vecerama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vecerama/).
 *  Thread Starter [vecerama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vecerama/)
 * (@vecerama)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-formatting/#post-12020988)
 * Firefox doesn’t care for it, either.
    =======================================
   ================ XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: [https://simplybetterliving.sharpusa.com/?call_custom_simple_rss=1](https://simplybetterliving.sharpusa.com/?call_custom_simple_rss=1)
   Line Number 61, Column 277: <content:encoded><![CDATA[
 *  Plugin Author [danikoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danikoo/)
 * (@danikoo)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-formatting/#post-12030288)
 * Hi
    it opens for me fine
 * if you are having issues – try to change – xml by dom – in plugin settings.
    
   let me know if it solved the issue please
 * best regards
    danikoo
 *  Thread Starter [vecerama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vecerama/)
 * (@vecerama)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-formatting/#post-12031704)
 * Oh, wow. That blew up in my face… I am removing anything that looks like a tag
   now… 🙁
 * As I was saying… 🙂
 * I’m sorry. The only reason that it works now is because I had to re-set it. to
   NOT use CLEAN HTML… sorry. This is a production environment. You will notice 
   that the formatting, specifically the (P) tags are not present.
    ============
   ========= [CDATA[ We are so excited that our… =====================
 * I will reset it for you.
 * I’m leaving it as:
    ===================== Default: post Default post_status: 
   publish posts_per_page: 25 show post_meta in feed: Yes show post thumbnail in
   feed:Yes show post content in feed: show clean html allowed html tags: All the
   defaults including [p], plus I added [description]. Then I tried to include [
   content:encoded] and CDATA tags, but any tag that included punctuation, like :,[,],
   or !, get dropped in the editor.
 * Build output xml with: BY STRING
    ***Both options will not render in Firefox 
   and Chrome
 * pubDate date format: RFC 2282
 * protect my feeds with a key: NONE
 * Please let me know. I am really in a bit of a bind here.
 * THANK YOU!
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by [vecerama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vecerama/).
 *  Thread Starter [vecerama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vecerama/)
 * (@vecerama)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-formatting/#post-12031720)
 * Oh, wow. That blew up in my face… I am removing anything that looks like a tag
   now… 🙁
 * As I was saying… 🙂
 * I’m sorry. The only reason that it works now is because I had to re-set it. to
   NOT use CLEAN HTML… sorry. This is a production environment. You will notice 
   that the formatting, specifically the (P) tags are not present.
    ============
   ========= [CDATA[ We are so excited that our… =====================
 * I will reset it for you.
 * I’m leaving it as:
    ===================== Default: post Default post_status: 
   publish posts_per_page: 25 show post_meta in feed: Yes show post thumbnail in
   feed:Yes show post content in feed: show clean html allowed html tags: All the
   defaults including [p], plus I added [description]. Then I tried to include [
   content:encoded] and CDATA tags, but any tag that included punctuation, like :,[,],
   or !, get dropped in the editor.
 * Build output xml with: BY STRING
    ***Both options will not render in Firefox 
   and Chrome
 * pubDate date format: RFC 2282
 * protect my feeds with a key: NONE
 * Please let me know. I am really in a bit of a bind here.
 * THANK YOU!
 *  Thread Starter [vecerama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vecerama/)
 * (@vecerama)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-formatting/#post-12031732)
 * Here is the link again.
    [https://simplybetterliving.sharpusa.com/?call_custom_simple_rss=1](https://simplybetterliving.sharpusa.com/?call_custom_simple_rss=1)
 *  Plugin Author [danikoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danikoo/)
 * (@danikoo)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-formatting/#post-12031849)
 * Hi
    you do not need to add [description] or [content:encoded] – these are xml
   tags.
 * the problem with your feed – is that you have invalid chars in your content. 
   did you copy it from word or pdf?
 * please see here
    [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-dS-heN325HBIpXYp_b_DDpp5Uv6tqol/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-dS-heN325HBIpXYp_b_DDpp5Uv6tqol/view?usp=sharing)
 * i will try to solve it on my end, but that will require plugin version upload.
 * sorry i couldn’t help more
 *  Thread Starter [vecerama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vecerama/)
 * (@vecerama)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-formatting/#post-12031888)
 * INTERESTING!!! I see now! 🙂
 * I will clean up an article and test again. Does a plugin exist that will change
   the text encoding that you are aware of?
 * By the way, I thought that ANYTHING, any encoding, would work as long as it was
   inside a CDATA tag. Is that not true?
 * Thank you!
 *  Plugin Author [danikoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danikoo/)
 * (@danikoo)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-formatting/#post-12032054)
 * _By the way, I thought that ANYTHING, any encoding, would work as long as it 
   was inside a CDATA tag. Is that not true?_
 * If only life were simple 🙂
    some chars will break any xml even in CDATA
 * i am already working on a solution
    hope i will have good news soon
 *  Thread Starter [vecerama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vecerama/)
 * (@vecerama)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-formatting/#post-12032304)
 * Yes, Please! It seems that choosing FILTERED HTML and debugging all the content
   for non-ascii characters is BRUTAL manually. I’m hoping that it will be easier
   to just retain the (P) tags in the unfiltered view. 🙂
 * THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
 *  Thread Starter [vecerama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vecerama/)
 * (@vecerama)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-formatting/#post-12037369)
 * I’m sorry [@danikoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danikoo/). I had to 
   revert the settings back to UNFILTERED. We are working on an app that retrieves
   a block of XML in the rss feed. Although the ALLOWED TAGS does contain (CODE),
   it does not work with a comment (!–), so the below package was blank:
 * (content:encoded)
    (![CDATA[ (code) (!– (collection name=”general”) (image url
   =”spotlight_icons/general/cooking_graphic.png” name=”Cooking”/) (image url=”spotlight_icons/
   general/ideas_graphic.png” name=”Ideas”/) (image url=”spotlight_icons/general/
   safety_graphic.png” name=”Safety”/) (image url=”spotlight_icons/general/tips_graphic.
   png” name=”Tips”/) (/collection) –) (/code) ]]) (/content:encoded)
 * They are doing the testing now, so I have to keep it like this for a little while.
   Is that OK?
 * SETTINGS:
    ===================== Default: post Default post_status: publish posts_per_page:
   25 show post_meta in feed: Yes show post thumbnail in feed:Yes show post content
   in feed: SHOW UNFILTERED CONTENT
 * Sorry, I know you were testing too.
 * Matthew
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by [vecerama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vecerama/).
 *  Plugin Author [danikoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danikoo/)
 * (@danikoo)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-formatting/#post-12057636)
 * hi
    Must say i lost you there
 * if you are still having issues because of bad encoding and have access to the
   plugin code files
    try changing line 713 on custom-simple-rss.php
 * from
    $the_content = apply_filters(‘the_content’,get_the_content($post_id)); 
   to $the_content = apply_filters(‘the_content_feed’, get_the_content($post_id));
 * let me know if that solved the issue of text encoding
 * best regards
    danny
 *  [arcintermedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arcintermedia/)
 * (@arcintermedia)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-formatting/#post-12096204)
 * Hi [@danikoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danikoo/).
 * We are the company that developed the blog that [@vecerama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vecerama/)
   has been discussing with you.
 * We attempted the latest fix you suggested but it did not solve the problem.
 * To help troubleshoot this issue, we’d like to establish a few items:
 * 1. The plugin is stripping out the {p}{/p} tags in the output of the RSS. We 
   see the tags in our HTML so are originally there.
 * 2. We are attempting to feed this RSS data into an external app. With the missing
   tags, the formatting is messed up and the content is difficult for user to consume.
 * Please review our blog and the implementation of your plugin:
    [https://simplybetterliving.sharpusa.com/](https://simplybetterliving.sharpusa.com/)
 * Does your plugin require a certain version of:
    – WordPress? – PHP? – mySQL?
 * Upon looking at the blog, reviewing tech requirements, are there any other solutions
   that come to mind?
 * We appreciate your help troubleshooting this. Thank you!
 *  Plugin Author [danikoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danikoo/)
 * (@danikoo)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-formatting/#post-12101703)
 * Hi
    the plugin is definitely DOES NOT strip p tags ! I am using it myself for
   several of my clients sites and it works perfectly 🙂 you can see example here
   [https://www.danikoo.com/?call_custom_simple_rss=1&csrp_tag=test](https://www.danikoo.com/?call_custom_simple_rss=1&csrp_tag=test)
 * * please make sure that the p tag is in the list of allowed html tags inside 
   the plugin settings – maybe someone removed it from the list by accident
 * Hope that helps
    let me know Best Regards Danny

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