[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21753: Feed excerpts are missing important filter formatting

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#21753: Feed excerpts are missing important filter formatting
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 Reporter:  mdgl          |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Feeds         |    Version:  3.4.1
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
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 Excerpts included in feeds are missing important formatting because the
 relevant filters are not applied (e.g. wpautop).

 In file wp-includes/feed.php, function the_excerpt_rss() does not apply
 the same filters as the_excerpt() whilst results in lost formatting
 instructions.  By comparison, function the_content_feed() ensures that the
 same filters declared for the_content() are applied.

 A suggested patch is attached. Note that for symmetry between
 the_excerpt_rss() and the_content_feed() this patch also removes the
 (unnecessary?) filter ent2ncr() from the_excerpt_rss() and retains the
 (controversial?) escaping for CDATA blocks (see #3670).

 A few related issues are worth mentioning. Firstly, shortcodes are still
 not applied to excerpts (see #7093). Also, the (obsolete?) RDF feed does
 not make use of a CDATA block unlike those for RSS, RSS2 and Atom (see
 #20888). Finally, a similar problem occurs with comment text in feeds (see
 #16466).

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