Is there a way to have the Pathologic module work with short URL's in Site information > Footer message?

I am not able to get this to work at the moment.

I searched the issues and http://drupal.org/node/361785 refers to a footer but I don't think this the Site information > Footer message because as far as I can tell there is no way to set a filter for the footer message.

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Garrett Albright’s picture

Garrett Albright commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

there is no way to set a filter for the footer message.

And thus, there is no way to run Pathologic on the footer message, short of silly hacks. Sorry, but it sort of falls out of the use case Pathologic was intended for.

medrupalfan’s picture

medrupalfan commented

Hi Garrett,

Thanks for your comments, no need to apologize, I totally understand that the footer would not be handled by the module. It's a great module for the use cases it is intended for.

Garrett Albright’s picture

Garrett Albright commented

By the way, there is one simple work-around I just remembered. Just don't use the footer message, and instead create a custom block with the footer text and put it in the footer region of your theme. Since custom blocks do use input filters, Pathologic will be able to work on that text just fine.

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medrupalfan commented

That works great! Thanks!

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feo commented

Thanks. This tip works for Drupal 7 also.