Title: Escape html characters
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Escape html characters

 *  [Trevor Gehman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trevorgehman/)
 * (@trevorgehman)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/escape-html-characters/)
 * Can you update the plugin to automatically escape HTML characters? For instance,–
   is showing when I use the shortcode to display a GET variable with a dash in 
   it.
 * Maybe wrapping the output with htmlentities() would work.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mindvalley-post-get-variable/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mindvalley-post-get-variable/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Trevor Gehman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trevorgehman/)
 * (@trevorgehman)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/escape-html-characters/#post-3284218)
 * Sorry, that’s supposed to be & #8211;

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