# Wordpress posts published to Discourse include HTML?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-posts-published-to-discourse-include-html/246439>\
**Category:** WordPress\
**Created:** [November 22, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-posts-published-to-discourse-include-html/246439 "2022-11-22T16:47:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 22, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-posts-published-to-discourse-include-html/246439/1 "2022-11-22T16:47:56Z")

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I just tried my first manual push of a WP post into a Discourse topic. It worked, but ended up adding HTML that makes the post not look great, and I don’t like that HTML I didn’t specify is being added to my content. Here’s what it posted:

```plaintext
<small>Originally published at: https://original/post/url/
        </small><br>Here&#8217;s the excerpt . It&#8217;s valid&hellip;

```

So it’s adding some formatting tags as well as HTML entities I guess. Not preferable at all… is there a way to prevent this? I just want it to post the exact excerpt content straight from WP, with a clean link back to the original post.

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