Use the content option & limit the length instead of using the excerpt. WP strips all html tags out of the excerpt.
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Jessie
(@jjohns)
I am using content — not excerpt.
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Jessie
(@jjohns)
Sure, http://readingapprenticeship.org — client is trying to add em tag around some text in the slideshow for slide “Do you have your copy”, and the text is “Reading for Understanding” is a one-stop…
Are you using a custom excerpt? The text in the slider area is usually pulled from the page text. When I click thru to the actual post the text there is not the same as in the slider.
(which it should be)
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Jessie
(@jjohns)
Nope, just body text. But I’m using Custom Redirect URL to take the user elsewhere, not to the post.
That might be the issue.
You can upload an image to a post for the slider without actually having the image in the post itself.
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Jessie
(@jjohns)
Why would a redirect have anything to do with the stripping of html elements from the body?
Can you rule it out first?
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Jessie
(@jjohns)
Took out the redirect, didn’t change anything.
Can we see a screenshot of the Content Settings section?
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Jessie
(@jjohns)
I just got mine to work. Just selecting display post content wasn’t enough. I had to delete the “Limit content to # of characters” value.
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Jessie
(@jjohns)
Crazy, that worked, we now have italics! Very strange. Thank you.
Your welcome. It was driving me crazy too.
