Title: Great Plugin! Quick question…
Last modified: October 17, 2016

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# Great Plugin! Quick question…

 *  [JanPaul999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janpaul999/)
 * (@janpaul999)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-quick-question-2/)
 * Hi, first of all, thanks for this great plugin. It’s super useful for my PPC 
   campaigns.
 * My quick question:
 * In Adwords I like to use broad match modified, which gives me the a query string
   format like this:
 * ?utm_term=%2Bword1%2Bword2
 * (the %2B is the html encoded + character. The + character in front of a keyword
   indicates it’s a “broad match modified” keyword in Adowrds)
 * The problem is: the 2 word query string phrase includes the + signs when I output
   it on my landing page.
 * Any chance you could point me to how I could filter out the + signs when outputting
   the contents of the query string on my page?
 * Would really help me greatly, thanks.
 * P.S. I’m comfortable with php so feel free to point me to where and how to change/
   modify it myself.
 * Cheers, Paul

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 *  Thread Starter [JanPaul999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janpaul999/)
 * (@janpaul999)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-quick-question-2/#post-8321234)
 * Figured something out.
 * I added this line:
 *     ```
       //Filters out special characters passed along with Adwords keywords
       $return = ucwords(trim(preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/', ' ', $return)));
       ```
   
 * I placed it just before this line:
 *     ```
       return $return;
       ```
   
 * It works.
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by [JanPaul999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janpaul999/).
 *  Thread Starter [JanPaul999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janpaul999/)
 * (@janpaul999)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-quick-question-2/#post-8321323)
 * Or this code works also:
 *     ```
       $return = str_replace('+', ' ', $return);
       $return = str_replace('[', ' ', $return);
       $return = str_replace(']', ' ', $return);
       $return = ucwords(trim($return));
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [JanPaul999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janpaul999/)
 * (@janpaul999)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-quick-question-2/#post-8322316)
 * Actually, the + sign is the only sign that needs to be filtered from what Adwords
   passes in the URL. Other match types don’t pass special characters.
 * Here is the final code I ended up with after some testing:
 *     ```
       //Filters out the + characters passed along with Adwords keywords set to "broad match modified".
       $return = ucwords(str_replace('+', ' ', $return));
       ```
   
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by [JanPaul999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janpaul999/).
 *  [mready](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mready/)
 * (@mready)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-quick-question-2/#post-8342472)
 * Thanks Paul,
 * Do you worry about the code being overwritten when the plugin is updated?
 * Marc
 *  Thread Starter [JanPaul999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janpaul999/)
 * (@janpaul999)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-quick-question-2/#post-8391120)
 * Yes that’s an area of concern. I might accidentally do this at some point.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-quick-question-2/#post-8391120)
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