CUNY Academic Commons

I'll take a closer look.

Chances are I am not applying a filter for bbPress to strip element tags that are not supported in the BPGES plugin.

After looking at this a bit more, it appears that Maura copied the frontend blog content from the CUNY Games Network post - https://games.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/07/31/2018-cuny-games-conference-call-for-proposals-is-open/

And pasted it into the group forum "Visual" editor and submitted the post. The forum post and the email notification that went out contained the HTML markup. Next, I'm guessing Maura saw the HTML markup and edited the post later to remove the offending tags. The post_modified date shows that the forum topic was edited five minutes later, which kind of confirms my suspicions.

If the forum post was live-previewed, then the mistake would have been caught.

This is an issue when people copy and paste things into the Visual editor. We could maybe whitelist the bold element (<b>), but not the rest of the tags. Or perhaps install or write some code that strips various HTML tags from the TinyMCE editor before the post is submitted.

Something like this:
http://jonathannicol.com/blog/2015/02/19/clean-pasted-text-in-wordpress/

A thought - maybe too complex to implement just for the Commons, but maybe worth it if integrated into bbPress or whatever.

- You paste some junk into the Visual tab
- After TinyMCE has finished rendering, look at the content for what looks like unrendered markup -

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Ray, have you ever done anything like this? I assume it's possible but I have no idea how hard it'd be :)

great to hear this, Ray -- thank you. After it is live, I'll let you know whether the problem reappears

That's exciting -- thank you!