Title: Processing malformatted bbcode
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Processing malformatted bbcode

 *  Resolved [alex2k5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alex2k5/)
 * (@alex2k5)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/processing-malformatted-bbcode/)
 * Hey, I was wondering if it was possible to do the following.
 * I use this in regular WordPress, to allow vBulletin bbcode, copied from the vBulletin
   forums we use, to be pasted into posts and rendered as HTML.
 * vBulletin is way more forgiving with formatting than this plugin is, so at times
   it will not process. Example:
 * [url=”LINK”]text{/url]
    [url=LINK]text[/url] [URL=”LINK”]text[/URL] [URL=LINK]
   text[/URL] [URL=”LINK”]text[/url] <-upper/lower mixed [URL=LINK”]text[/url] <-
   upper/lower mixed [url=”LINK”]text[/URL] <-upper/lower mixed [url=LINK]text[/
   URL] <-upper/lower mixed
 * If what I paste into wordpress isn’t wrapped in quotes, doesn’t parse right.
 * If what I paste into wordpress isn’t both uppercase, or both lowercase, then 
   it doesn’t parse right.
 * This goes for any code, not just url.
 * Would it be possible to address those situations?
 * It’s otherwise a great plugin and super useful when writing for both wordpress
   and the forums.
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-bbcode/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-bbcode/)

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 *  Plugin Author [antonchanning](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antonchanning/)
 * (@antonchanning)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/processing-malformatted-bbcode/#post-5650826)
 * This plugin uses wordpresses inbuilt shortcode detection, which is presumably
   case sensitive. I could see if it can be overridden, but I can’t promise any 
   time frame.
 * I’m surprised about the quote issue though, as I pretty much always use [url=
   http://wordpress.org]Wordpress[/url] format, and have experienced no problems.
 *  Thread Starter [alex2k5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alex2k5/)
 * (@alex2k5)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/processing-malformatted-bbcode/#post-5650834)
 * I noticed this after my post above, so I’d like to clarify.
 * Seems like this was 2 issues. The upper/lower case is an issue, I appreciate 
   the attempt at looking into it. I’ve cleansed my database manually and reinserted
   by searching for all known bbcodes, replacing with lowercase. Just need to stay
   on top of it going forward.
 * The quotes thing – it happened when a url ends in a slash, but was not wrapped
   in quotes. So…
 * [url=http://wordpress.com/]Wordpress[/url] stops. Looks like thats a shortcode
   processing issue.
 * To alleviate that in old posts, I ran a search for /] in the database, replaced
   with ]. Not perfect, but bbcode parsing won’t break. Most servers can handle 
   it either way.
 * So, just need to clarify these things to my team, to make sure that if they copy/
   paste from forums, and it’s broken, to look at these as potential causes, adjust
   appropriately.
 *  Plugin Author [antonchanning](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antonchanning/)
 * (@antonchanning)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/processing-malformatted-bbcode/#post-5650836)
 * Okay makes sense. I imagine that if a shortcode ends in /], wordpress treats 
   as closing the shortcode, so it isn’t a container. Sounds like I’d be opening
   up a large can of worms if I tried to recode that.
 * I’ll put looking into case sensitivity on my ‘to do’ list, (already in backlog),
   and close this issue for now, as its more of a feature request than a bug.

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 * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/bbpress-bbcode.svg)
 * [bbPress2 BBCode](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-bbcode/)
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 * Last reply from: [antonchanning](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antonchanning/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/processing-malformatted-bbcode/#post-5650836)
 * Status: resolved