Do links containing nonalphanumeric characters work?

  • Resolved wp-MeMeMe

    (@wp-mememe)


    4 years, 1 month ago

    On my site, I had keywords containing (), and the link wasnt created. I then replace the () with a hyphen -, and the link still wasnt created. I then removed the non-alphanumeric characters, and the link was created properly.

    Is there are a list of characters that the plugin doesn’t work with? I saw an earlier thread using a special character that didn’t work, but was then fixed to work. So is this unintended behaviour?

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by wp-MeMeMe.
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  • Plugin Contributor Internal Links

    (@internallinkjuicer)

    4 years ago

    Can you please give us a concrete example, that we can replicate on our end?

    In general:

    • Post the keywords you have configured (the ones with the special characters
    • Post a small excerpt of content where you expect the linking happening

    There are indeed some “protected” characters, that we use to internally separate keywords or which we use for our keyword-related features (like the gap feature).

    With your examples, we can have a look at which characters you want to use and tell you exactly whether what will work or may not (and what we can maybe enable by our next releases).

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter wp-MeMeMe

    (@wp-mememe)

    4 years ago

    I had a keyword like:
    character sheet (HTML)
    and tried again with
    character sheet - HTML Example

    The place they were supposed to be linked was an unordered list where those were followed by a colon, like this:

    * character sheet (HTML):

    I’m now wondering if it’s not the linking characters, but the word HTML that is the issue.

    • This reply was modified 4 years ago by wp-MeMeMe.
    Plugin Contributor Internal Links

    (@internallinkjuicer)

    4 years ago

    Thanks for providing your example.

    With our recent release of version 1.3.9 we made it possible to use nearly all special characters (beside comma, curly braces, and +/- as these are reserved for internal usage).

    May I ask you to update to the latest version? Afterward a linking of character sheet (HTML) should be possible.

    Thread Starter wp-MeMeMe

    (@wp-mememe)

    3 years, 12 months ago

    I have tried the upgrade, and it doesn’t appear to be working.

    I have text that I want to be turned into a link:
    Character Sheet – HTML Example

    And I have added exactly that as a keyword in the post I want to be linked to. It’s still not creating a link.

    I have also tried
    Character Sheet (HTML)
    still no automatic linking.

    I am using v1.3.9

    In case its relevant, the page being linked is named Character Sheet - HTML Example and has the slug character-sheet-html-example

    Manual linking to the sheet does work, naturally. But when I remove the manual link, and try to use internal link juicer, it doesn’t work.

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