RSS Block: Decode HTML entities in feed titles before display #70491
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LGTM!
A similar fix was applied to the wp_widget_rss_output() function in the core PR: WordPress/wordpress-develop#9042
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What?
Closes #70477
Follows the implementation of: WordPress/wordpress-develop#9042 by @Infinite-Null
Related Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63611
Fixes RSS Block to properly handle HTML entities in feed titles by decoding them before stripping tags and escaping for display.
Why?
RSS feeds from third-party sources sometimes include HTML entities in their titles. Currently, these entities are displayed as literal text instead of being properly decoded and stripped, resulting in unsightly
<em>appearing in the rendered titles on the frontend.How?
Modified the title processing in
packages/block-library/src/rss/index.phpto:html_entity_decode()with appropriate flagsTesting Instructions
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