diff --git a/src/components/site-picker/site-picker.ts b/src/components/site-picker/site-picker.ts
index dca537560..60bfd17e5 100644
--- a/src/components/site-picker/site-picker.ts
+++ b/src/components/site-picker/site-picker.ts
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ export class CoreSitePickerComponent implements OnInit {
             sites.forEach((site: any) => {
                 // Format the site name.
                 promises.push(this.filterProvider.formatText(site.siteName, {clean: true, singleLine: true, filter: false}, [],
-                        site.getId()).catch(() => {
+                        site.id).catch(() => {
                     return site.siteName;
                 }).then((siteName) => {
                     site.fullNameAndSiteName = this.translate.instant('core.fullnameandsitename',
diff --git a/src/directives/format-text.ts b/src/directives/format-text.ts
index 54e627c9f..9c4a8c314 100644
--- a/src/directives/format-text.ts
+++ b/src/directives/format-text.ts
@@ -404,7 +404,10 @@ export class CoreFormatTextDirective implements OnChanges {
             // Error getting the site. This probably means that there is no current site and no siteId was supplied.
         }).then((siteInstance: CoreSite) => {
             site = siteInstance;
-            result.siteId = site.getId();
+
+            if (site) {
+                result.siteId = site.getId();
+            }
 
             if (this.contextLevel == 'course' && this.contextInstanceId <= 0) {
                 this.contextInstanceId = site.getSiteHomeId();
@@ -422,14 +425,14 @@ export class CoreFormatTextDirective implements OnChanges {
 
             if (this.filter) {
                 return this.filterHelper.getFiltersAndFormatText(this.text, this.contextLevel, this.contextInstanceId,
-                        result.options, site.getId()).then((res) => {
+                        result.options, result.siteId).then((res) => {
 
                     result.filters = res.filters;
 
                     return res.text;
                 });
             } else {
-                return this.filterProvider.formatText(this.text, result.options, [], site.getId());
+                return this.filterProvider.formatText(this.text, result.options, [], result.siteId);
             }
 
         }).then((formatted) => {