diff --git a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
index d193b73..07e41ad 100644
--- a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
@@ -1401,7 +1401,7 @@ module ApplicationHelper
   end
 
   def filter_html(html, source)
-    if @plugins
+    if @plugins && source.has_macro?
       html = convert_macro(html, source)
       #TODO This parse should be done through the macro infra, but since there
       #     are old things that do not support it we are keeping this hot spot.
diff --git a/app/helpers/boxes_helper.rb b/app/helpers/boxes_helper.rb
index 7bf7a74..6f08a83 100644
--- a/app/helpers/boxes_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/boxes_helper.rb
@@ -100,9 +100,7 @@ module BoxesHelper
       options[:title] = _("This block is invisible. Your visitors will not see it.")
     end
 
-    if @controller.send(:content_editor?)
-      result = filter_html(result, block)
-    end
+    result = filter_html(result, block)
 
     box_decorator.block_target(block.box, block) +
       content_tag('div',
diff --git a/app/models/article.rb b/app/models/article.rb
index 3bb49c6..4f564d8 100644
--- a/app/models/article.rb
+++ b/app/models/article.rb
@@ -673,6 +673,10 @@ class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
 
   delegate :region, :region_id, :environment, :environment_id, :to => :profile, :allow_nil => true
 
+  def has_macro?
+    true
+  end
+
   private
 
   def sanitize_tag_list
diff --git a/app/models/block.rb b/app/models/block.rb
index 9fab33b..5231153 100644
--- a/app/models/block.rb
+++ b/app/models/block.rb
@@ -138,4 +138,8 @@ class Block < ActiveRecord::Base
     4.hours
   end
 
+  def has_macro?
+    false
+  end
+
 end
diff --git a/app/models/raw_html_block.rb b/app/models/raw_html_block.rb
index a403b51..f370077 100644
--- a/app/models/raw_html_block.rb
+++ b/app/models/raw_html_block.rb
@@ -10,4 +10,7 @@ class RawHTMLBlock < Block
     (title.blank? ? '' : block_title(title)).html_safe + html.to_s.html_safe
   end
 
+  def has_macro?
+    true
+  end
 end
diff --git a/test/unit/application_helper_test.rb b/test/unit/application_helper_test.rb
index e96507e..bc28cd3 100644
--- a/test/unit/application_helper_test.rb
+++ b/test/unit/application_helper_test.rb
@@ -791,6 +791,29 @@ class ApplicationHelperTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
                  '<br style=\'clear: left;\' /></div>', result
   end
 
+  should 'not filter html if source does not have macros' do
+    class Plugin1 < Noosfero::Plugin
+    end
+
+    class Plugin1::Macro1 < Noosfero::Plugin::Macro
+      def parse(params, inner_html, source)
+        'Test1'
+      end
+    end
+
+    environment = Environment.default
+    environment.enable_plugin(Plugin1)
+    @plugins = Noosfero::Plugin::Manager.new(environment, self)
+    macro1_name = Plugin1::Macro1.identifier
+    source = mock
+    source.stubs(:has_macro?).returns(false)
+
+    html = "<div class='macro nonEdit' data-macro='#{macro1_name}' data-macro-param='123'></div>"
+    parsed_html = filter_html(html, source)
+
+    assert_no_match /Test1/, parsed_html
+  end
+
   protected
   include NoosferoTestHelper
 
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