HTML Purified
| Download: | html-purified.zip |
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| Version: | 0.2.9 |
| Updated: | March 5, 2008 |
| Size: | 258.14 KB |
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HTML Purified replaces the default WordPress comments filters with HTML Purifier, a super HTML filtering library.
HTML Purifier is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP. HTML Purifier will not only remove all malicious code (better known as XSS) with a thoroughly audited, secure yet permissive whitelist, it will also make sure your documents are standards compliant, something only achievable with a comprehensive knowledge of W3C's specifications. HTML Purifier
Why would you want to do this? There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the way WordPress filters comments, and in fact there has been no security alert related to this. However, this doesn't detract from the desire to make things better, and the fact that HTML Purifier is much more thorough and exhaustive.
A comparison of HTML Purifier and KSES (the default WordPress filtering library) is shown below and taken from a fuller description at the HTML Purifier site.
| Library | Whitelist | Removal | Well-formed | Nesting | Attributes | XSS safe | Standards safe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kses | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial | Probably | No |
| HTML Purifier | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
An additional feature of HTML Purifier is that it will produce valid well-formed XHTML code, something which KSES does not do.
Features:
- Configurable KSES or HTML Purifier
- Configurable list of HTML elements and attributes for both KSES and HTML purifier
- Additionally process comments with HTML Tidy
- URL blacklist
- Works in bbPress!
The plugin is available in the following languages:
- English
- Español - translated by José Cuesta
Version History
- 0.2.9 - Update plugin library. Now works in bbPress
- 0.2.7 - Add option for bbcode-style tags, update to HTML Purifier 2.1.3
- 0.2.5 - Add Spanish localization
- 0.2.4 - Fix cache directory write error
- 0.2.2 - Update HTML purifier to 2.1.1
Installation
The plugin is simple to install:
- Download html-purified.zip
- Unzip
- Upload
html-purifieddirectory to your/wp-content/pluginsdirectory - Go to the plugin management page and enable the plugin
- Configure the options from the Options/HTML Purified page
You can find full details of installing a plugin on the plugin installation page.
General Options
General options apply to both the default KSES filter, as well as HTML Purifier:
Allowed Tags
The allowed tags is a list of HTML tags and attributes that are allowed in comments. The list will be populated with defaults, and you can modify it as you see fit. One feature of the HTML Purified plugin is that any changes to this list will affect both KSES and HTML Purifier, and will be visible on your site (if displaying allowed tags is enabled in your comments form).
Filter admin users
WordPress does not normally filter comments by an administrator, and you can change this by enabling the 'filter admin users' option.
Footer display
Finally there is an option to display the number of purified comments in the footer of your site. Use of this is entirely optional, and provides some nice statistics and an incoming link for both myself and the author of HTML Purifier.
HTML Purifier Options
These options are specific to HTML Purifier:
Caching
HTML Purifier performs a deeper analysis of HTML than KSES, and this results in increased processing time. However, as this increase only happens when a comment is submitted it is not a problem. Should you want to, you can enable the HTML Purifier cache, which attempts to reduce the processing time by caching internal data structures. The purifier cache is stored in a subdirectory of the standard WordPress cache directory wp-content/cache/html-purified/. If you enable the cache you must make sure the web server has write-permissions to this directory. Caching is advised in most situations.
Document type
The document type should match the document type of your chosen theme. Most themes will be 'XHTML transitional', but you can verify this by viewing the HTML source of your site and looking at the first line:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
Tidy
As well as validating comments, HTML Purifier can also Tidy them. If you are unfamiliar, HTML Tidy is a popular tool that attempts to correct invalid, poorly formatted, and deprecated HTML. There are three levels of tidying that can be applied, and this reflects the amount of manipulation of the incoming comment. Select a level that suits the complexity of your comments, bearing in mind that the heavier the level the more likely a comment will be modified.
Note that this option does not require Tidy to be installed on your server, although the pretty-printing of HTML does. If you do not have Tidy installed on your server then pretty-printing will be silently ignored.
Blacklist
Finally, a URL blacklist is available. Any text entered into this blacklist will be used to filter the URLs contained within comments. For example, if you enter 'viagra', then any URL containing 'viagra' will be removed.
Support
Please direct all support questions to the HTML Purified support forum. Any support questions left on this page may not be answered.
Bugs & New Features
A full list of all bugs can be found in the HTML Purified issue tracker.
| Date | Current requested features |
|---|---|
| 05 Mar 2008 | Add htmlLawed |
| 05 Mar 2008 | Make HTML Purified work with WP-IDS |
A full list of all requested features can be found in the HTML Purified feature tracker.
Help me to save time by reading these instructions!
Please report bugs in the HTML Purified issue tracker.
Please make feature suggestions in the HTML Purified feature tracker.
Please direct all support questions to the HTML Purified support forum.
Comments (page 1 of 6)
Jul 1, 2007 11:58 am
thx for all the help, everything is working great now
Jul 1, 2007 5:55 am
The information about the location of the cache is correct. The full directory (including WordPress location) is:
YOUR_WORDPRESS_DIRECTORY/wp-content/cache/html-purified/
The previous version of the plugin had the incorrect path.
Jul 1, 2007 5:00 am
ok with the new version I have no errors when saving a post like posted above, but I now get again the cache directory is not writeable error again.
btw. I had kept the old version renamed the folder from html-purified to purified and the cache worked, now after installing the new version the directory seems not writeable again?
did you change again the name of the cache dir? what should its name be? wp-content/cache/?
Jul 1, 2007 4:49 am
ok, regarding the cache folder:
so the info here on this site is misleading or maybe I am just mis-reading it. will rename the folder and re-download the plugin.
Jul 1, 2007 12:48 am
Ovidiu, I meant comments. By default WordPress does not filter any comments made by an administrator (it does filter other people). The option in question forces all comments to be filtered, including those of an administrator.
Pross, thanks for pointing that out. Plugin updated.
Trisha, latest version allows no tags.
Thanks Edward, I've updated the plugin to contain the latest version.
Jun 30, 2007 3:20 pm
I get the same "not writeable" error even though I have verified that the folder is writeable.
Also - I don't want ANY HTML tags allowed in my comments but when I delete what is in the "allowed tags" box they come back when I save it - how can I be sure NO tags are allowed?
Thanks!
Jun 30, 2007 10:52 am
Hi, Ovidiu; the HTML Purifier that is packaged with this extension is version 2.0.0, and the error you're seeing sometimes shows up (not always though, I never figured out why). Try upgrading the contents of the library to 2.0.1, you can download it from the HTML Purifier website.
Jun 30, 2007 8:55 am
function cache_directory (){
$dir = dirname (__FILE__).'/../../cache/purifier';
if (function_exists ('realpath'))
$dir = realpath ($dir);
return $dir;
}
the folder is called purifier NOT html-purified
Jun 30, 2007 1:50 am
and besides, the
/wp-content/cache/html-purified/is writeable but your plugin still reports an error...its nagging me about this directory not being writeable !?and when I edit a post and click save, I get this error:
'Fatal error: Class htmlpurifier_definitioncache_decorator_memory: Cannot inherit from undefined class htmlpurifier_definitioncache_decorator in /var/www/web40/web/wp-content/plugins/html-purified/lib/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Decorator/Memory.php on line 11'Jun 30, 2007 1:32 am
above you say:
do you mean it does not filter comments or it does not filter posts? I guess you meant posts, otherwise this does not make much sense to me !?
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