Title: html encoding issue with link title
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# html encoding issue with link title

 *  [pravdamien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pravdamien/)
 * (@pravdamien)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-encoding-issue-with-link-title/)
 * Awesome plugin, as all by wpmudev.
    I would juste like to point out one small
   issue that should be fixed. When posting a link, if the destination title happens
   to have “[” “]” in it, wordpress will confuse that with the shortcut and html
   output is cut off.
 * For instance this link : [http://www.ugict.cgt.fr/articles/actus/revue-de-presse-17-juin](http://www.ugict.cgt.fr/articles/actus/revue-de-presse-17-juin)
   
   will work fine in preview, but when posted, the output will be :
 * > read this !
   > [http://www.ugict.cgt.fr/articles/actus/revue-de-presse-17-juin](http://www.ugict.cgt.fr/articles/actus/revue-de-presse-17-juin)
   > 
   > Les ingénieurs, cadres et techniciens organisent leur Défense’ image=’http://
   > www.ugict.cgt.fr/media/k2/items/cache/d23c6c4ffcb8aba8c60fb49fbdd9a263_XL.jpg’]
   > L’Ugict-CGT a réuni 1 200 cadres sur le site symbolique de La Défense, la presse
   > en parle…
 * when checking through dashboard, the content is :
 * > read this !
   >  [bpfb_link url=’[http://www.ugict.cgt.fr/articles/actus/revue-de-presse-17-juin&#8217](http://www.ugict.cgt.fr/articles/actus/revue-de-presse-17-juin&#8217);
   > title='[REVUE DE PRESSE] Les ingénieurs, cadres et techniciens organisent leur
   > Défense’ image=’[http://www.ugict.cgt.fr/media/k2/items/cache/d23c6c4ffcb8aba8c60fb49fbdd9a263_XL.jpg’%5DL’Ugict-CGT](http://www.ugict.cgt.fr/media/k2/items/cache/d23c6c4ffcb8aba8c60fb49fbdd9a263_XL.jpg’%5DL’Ugict-CGT)
   > a réuni 1 200 cadres sur le site symbolique de La Défense, la presse en parle…[/
   > bpfb_link]
 * Si i’m guessing the [ and ] are being read as shortcuts beginning and end.
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 *  Plugin Author [Bojan Radonic – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support4/)
 * (@wpmudev-support4)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-encoding-issue-with-link-title/#post-6331098)
 * Hey there pravdamien,
 * Hope you’re well today!
 * I’ve tested this on my end and I can confirm the issue, using square brackets
   in post/page title is messing with the output of the link.
 * I’ll report this to our developer so he can investigate this further and fix 
   in one of the following plugin update releases.
 * Thank you for reporting this 🙂
 * Have a great day!
 * Cheers,
    Bojan
 *  Thread Starter [pravdamien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pravdamien/)
 * (@pravdamien)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-encoding-issue-with-link-title/#post-6331103)
 * Thank you WPMU DEV team !

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-encoding-issue-with-link-title/#post-6331103)
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