Smarter Sheep

Wordpress likes to strip out your embed tags for security purposes, but if your hosting yourself on WordPress MU and aren’t concerned about the security issues, you can work around this with a simple modification.

Login to your hosting server and edit kses.php file in the wp-includes directory.
Search for “Post filtering” and then comment out the following lines:

// Post filtering
//add_filter(’content_save_pre’, ‘wp_filter_post_kses’);

And that’s all there is too it. You should now be able to embed tags even with scribefire and other remote blogging tools.

We have been having a bit of problem with the most recent release of WordPress-MU and getting the xmlrpc functionality to work for remote blogging. Some of us use ScribeFire for our blogging and when we upgraded wordpress we were getting an error authenticating to our account. The issue is apparently related to a missing function call in the xmlrpc.php file. You can follow the details and the fix here. Consequently I am posting this ScribeFire now that we have the fix in place