Title: [Plugin: Link Library] escaped characters
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Link Library] escaped characters

 *  Resolved [dking64](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dking64/)
 * (@dking64)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-link-library-escaped-characters/)
 * In the “Additional Link Parameters” on the “Edit Link” screen, special characters
   are escaped when you save. If you go back and edit that link, the escaped characters
   will be escaped again when you save the changes. So you have to “un-escape” special
   characters every time you edit a link, otherwise you accumulate the “\” character
   before each instance of special characters.
 * Perhaps this is part of the “Link” functionality and not specific to Link Library.
   But, if not, it would be great if the system checked whether special characters
   are already escaped instead of re-escaping them.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/link-library/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/link-library/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Yannick Lefebvre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackdewey/)
 * (@jackdewey)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-link-library-escaped-characters/#post-2155359)
 * Version 5.0.3 will contain the appropriates updates to un-escape the special 
   charcaters. It will be available a bit later today.
 *  Thread Starter [dking64](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dking64/)
 * (@dking64)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-link-library-escaped-characters/#post-2155362)
 * Seems to be working. Thanks!
 * I also like the display-category-as-select-list option. Nice work!
 *  Plugin Author [Yannick Lefebvre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackdewey/)
 * (@jackdewey)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-link-library-escaped-characters/#post-2155363)
 * Thanks 🙂 That select list idea came from a user and I don’t know why I never
   thought about it before. It does look pretty slick.

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