[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #49189: Term description cannot be filtered in admin area

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#49189: Term description cannot be filtered in admin area
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 Reporter:  theMikeD            |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement         |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal              |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Taxonomy            |    Version:  5.3.2
 Severity:  normal              |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  ui, administration  |
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 There are many cases where the term description is used for more than just
 a simple one-line description of what a term is. I have several clients
 for whom the term description can be hundreds or words long.

 Since there is no filter on the term description shown in the admin UI for
 manual adjustment, nor is there code to shorten it automatically, the
 entire term description is put into the description cell of the term
 table.

 When the description is long, we get this:

 [[Image(https://i.ibb.co/xjNFxYb/aa.png)]]

 This is something that can easily be handled. Given that automatically
 trimming the term description is probably not what users expect, I suggest
 adding a filter here [https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master
 /wp-admin/includes/class-wp-terms-list-table.php#L536] to allow a
 user/developer to limit the term description if needed.

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