[howtogeek]

I’d think it would work out much better to use something other than blockquote… that’s the whole idea behind the

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tag… it should be accepted by bbpress perfectly fine, and not used for any other reason.

There’s no reason to have full bbcode support if you don’t need it, all we need is the

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tag.

One of the problems with using blockquote is that somebody might already use blockquote in their posts. It would also make any old posts using blockquote completely incompatible with the new plugin.

Otherwise you could use another tag, but then you have to modify the bbpress allowed tags list.

And the issue here is that we are trying to indicate to the system that we are quoting something, not just trying to format the display. It’s this that gives us the ability to filter out the first quote in a multiple-quote scenario that probably happens very often.