Having HTML on Author Pages

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I know by default, WordPress restricts html on author pages for security purposes. However, even when I tried to over ride this limitation, I still seem to have trouble with my author pages displaying html correctly.

Is it possible to redirect and author page to a regular wordpress page about that author, and still show all the posts that the author has written?

Does this create any problems? I am not worried about security, as I don't allow guest registration.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

The example URL almost looks correct, but there are too many problems overall using the regular (strip html) author template.

http://www.felixandfingers.com/author/emily/

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I'm going to answer my own question. Most people could add this to their functions.php file:

remove_filter('pre_user_description', 'wp_filter_kses');
add sanitization for WordPress posts
add_filter( 'pre_user_description', 'wp_filter_post_kses');

If you use that, you should be aware of security issues, if you allow guest bloggers.

This didn't fix my problem, as I discovered the culprit was a database error. When I scanned the database I found multiple entries of the sanitized content, and it was reading the wrong one. I deleted the erroneous entries, and the problem was solved.

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