Question Content-plugins in Kunena

Apparently Kunena also triggers Content-plugins for the "Last Post" link in the category index view. Is this intentional or should I create a bug report for this. In my opinion there shouldn't be any trigger there.

Content plugins in Joomla 1.5 are a mess as they were meant to be used in articles only.

Plugins can be used to many different tasks, including bad words filtering.

What is the ill-effect you're seeing?

I though that content plugins should only be triggered for Topics but not the Subject of Topics etc.

For example the following functions trigger content plugins.

function parseText
function parseBBCode
function stripBBCode

But if you look at the template code, you can see that these functions are used on pretty much every text. So the content plugin is executed in unexpected areas. Problem is that some content plugins (for examples "html tidy") add <p> tags, which don't look good in text fields like like "Last Post".

You're right. Plugin support was originally added into FireBoard to filter bad words and people were complaining that topic titles and a few other places were excluded. Times have changed since that and content plugins are now used for everything and even more. I will be glad that Joomla 1.6 finally fixed those, but in the mean time there's really no easy solution that fits to everyone.

Those are the only functions where content plugins gets triggered. So for you I would remove the plugin support from parseText and stripBBCode..

Actually this is exactly what I did already

This issue could be solved by adding onre more flag to the configuration (for example "Run plugin everywhere, not only Topics"). Of course the default should be the current behavior (otherwise users would complain after upgrades Just a suggestion. I understand that you can not make every user happy.