[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #26335: Twenty Fourteen: Ephemera Widget caches plugin filtering (and lack of plugin filtering) of the_content

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#26335: Twenty Fourteen: Ephemera Widget caches plugin filtering (and lack of
plugin filtering) of the_content
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 Reporter:  celloexpressions  |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)      |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Bundled Theme     |    Version:
 Severity:  normal            |   Keywords:
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 Many plugins filter `the_content()` to add things like social sharing
 buttons.

 The Twenty Fourteen Ephemera Widget currently ignores the potential for
 plugins to change the contents of the widget. For plugins that rely on
 external css/js files for their functionality, deactivating the plugin
 will remove those assets but leave the html markup displayed. This creates
 a bad user experience because the plugin appears to not be removed even
 after deleting all of its files.

 Example steps to reproduce:
 1. Install & activate a plugin such as
 [http://wordpress.org/plugins/quickshare QuickShare]
 2. Add the Twenty Fourteen Ephemera Widget to a sidebar
 3. Uninstall QuickShare
 The html needed by QuickShare is still present in the widget. Removing and
 re-adding the widget fixes it.

 One solution would be to prevent plugins' filters from ever applying to
 the widget's `the_content`, as they are almost never desirable for display
 in a widget. I'm currently hiding QuickShare from the widget with css.

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