[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #7746: add wpautop filter to the_author_description() (and its own filter)

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#7746: add wpautop filter to the_author_description() (and its own filter)
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 Reporter:  jeremyclarke  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect        |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  low           |   Milestone:  2.7      
Component:  General       |     Version:  2.6.1    
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:           
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 There is currently no filter on the_author_description(), which prints out
 author bios within the loop. On the backend you can add html to it, but
 <br>'s and  <p>'s are removed. Line breaks are kept though, just like in
 the post content, but then on display there is no use of wpautop to make
 the line breaks actually display (they're just html whitespace).

 So we should either add wpautop to the output or stop stripping BR from
 the content.

 Further, it seems like a good idea to add it's own filter in case people
 want to do special things with author bios.

 For bonus points, could we add an optional argument to both functions
 (get_author_description() and the_author_description()) so that people
 could call them with filters active from outside the loop, specifically in
 author.php pages where it makes a lot more sense to show the user bio than
 inside the loop.

 I can write a patch if someone indicates it will be welcome.

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