Title: Template code editor is reverting html brackets to entity codes
Last modified: August 21, 2016
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# Template code editor is reverting html brackets to entity codes
* Resolved [maiki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maiki/)
* (@maiki)
* [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-code-editor-is-reverting-html-brackets-to-entity-codes/)
* I have a fresh install, latest Pods (and I just double checked by diff), creating
or importing templates. When I update the template, it reverts brackets into
their lesser than/greater than entity codes (and funnily enough, if I save it
again, it turns the ampersands into the amp code, on and on and on…).
* I made a [screenshot showing the reversion](https://guild.works/file/data/2pkqulhn3wd57fhb5eic/PHID-FILE-yu6d2guzlfqxbcsax5km/Pods_export_test).
* I’ve turned off all plugins, and cleared the cache in Pods, as well as for WPEngine,
and I’ve tested in Firefox and Chromium (with cleared caches as well). I found
[issue #2207](https://github.com/pods-framework/pods/issues/2207), but I am not
have the same issue as that (my template box is showing). [Debug info is up as a paste](https://guild.works/P2).
* I’ve checked it against other instances of CodeMirror, such as with the Code
Snippets plugin, and it works correctly. I’ve also checked, and there isn’t a
second instance of CodeMirror being loaded on the template pages.
* I am stumped. What else can I check?
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/pods/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pods/)
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* Plugin Contributor [Josh Pollock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shelob9/)
* (@shelob9)
* [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-code-editor-is-reverting-html-brackets-to-entity-codes/#post-5122933)
* The next thing left to check is that this is not a theme issue. Try switching
to the default theme and then see if it still happens.
* Also, do you get the same behavior with [Pods Frontier](https://github.com/pods-framework/pods-frontier)
activated?
* Thread Starter [maiki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maiki/)
* (@maiki)
* [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-code-editor-is-reverting-html-brackets-to-entity-codes/#post-5122960)
* Sidenote (first!): I didn’t know the Frontier and Frontier Auto Template were
two different plugins. That seems like it could be named differently, or the
connection made more apparent in their respective docs. ^_^
* I was hoping that was it, but neither of those worked. TwentyFourteen with/without
Pods Frontier, still stripping my HTML out. Curly brackets are fine, though (
I noticed in a different template).
* There haven’t been any other reports of this, ne? Bummer, I always seem to get
weird outlier issues. T_T
* Any other thoughts, Josh? If it is worth your time, I can create admin/SFTP accounts
for ya. Right now I am going to reproduce the site elsewhere and see if that
changes anything. If you’d like to play along at home, the deployment repo is
at [https://allthecod.es/westview-press/wp-deploy](https://allthecod.es/westview-press/wp-deploy).
* Thread Starter [maiki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maiki/)
* (@maiki)
* [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-code-editor-is-reverting-html-brackets-to-entity-codes/#post-5122969)
* I spun up a Digital Ocean server and cloned the deployment repo, and the code
editor is working. Next I will try spinning up another instance on WPEngine.
Blah.
* Plugin Contributor [Josh Pollock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shelob9/)
* (@shelob9)
* [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-code-editor-is-reverting-html-brackets-to-entity-codes/#post-5122973)
* I’m honestly stumped as to why this is happening to you. If you can’t reproduce
it in any other environments and I can’t reproduce it here, which I can’t it
is impossible to know what’s up. Let’s hope it goes away and stays away on its
own.
* RE: Frontier/ Frontier Auto Template- Yah, good point, but too late now. Auto
Template will probably eventually become part of Frontier at some point, but
since it was a simple thing we could get done before finishing Frontier it made
sense to release it on its own. It was originally called Omega Pods, which was
just dumb…
* Thread Starter [maiki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maiki/)
* (@maiki)
* [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-code-editor-is-reverting-html-brackets-to-entity-codes/#post-5123010)
* I am gonna resolve this thread, though I never figured out what the issue was.
I deployed from that repo to a non-WPE server, and it worked fine. And I provisioned
a new WPE instance, and Pods worked fine there, but if I use WPE’s copy install
feature, the new instance also has the issue. So something got messed up that
is copied over, but I don’t have time to resolve it (we are going to deploy elsewhere).
* Thanks for your assistance, Josh. ^_^
* Plugin Contributor [Josh Pollock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shelob9/)
* (@shelob9)
* [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-code-editor-is-reverting-html-brackets-to-entity-codes/#post-5123020)
* Yah, that’s very weird, but if you decide to track down the cause, I think you’d
be better off talking with WPEngine support.
* [Sqeze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sqeze/)
* (@sqeze)
* [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-code-editor-is-reverting-html-brackets-to-entity-codes/#post-5123137)
* For what it’s worth, I have the same problem as Maiki had.
* I’m using 1&1 in Spain for hosting. Right now I don’t have any spare time to
investigate it further – it happens on a test site I have, and I can copy the
template back from production when it gets corrupted. Every time I save it, it
is displayed corrupted, but seems to continue working just fine (!). But just
so you are aware that there does seem to still be a latent problem lurking here,
Josh.
* Here’s a template which got corrupted after saving on the test site:
`| {@category.course_code} | {@start_date, format_date_jSFY}
| {
@tutor.display_name} | {@towncity} | {@cost} |
`
* [Sqeze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sqeze/)
* (@sqeze)
* [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-code-editor-is-reverting-html-brackets-to-entity-codes/#post-5123138)
* Wow – the code has been pasted here in re-constructed form. Didn’t expect that…
* Plugin Contributor [Josh Pollock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shelob9/)
* (@shelob9)
* [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-code-editor-is-reverting-html-brackets-to-entity-codes/#post-5123139)
* [@sqeze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sqeze/) – This should be fixed in
Pods 2.5.2
* [Sqeze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sqeze/)
* (@sqeze)
* [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-code-editor-is-reverting-html-brackets-to-entity-codes/#post-5123140)
* Many thanks, Josh!
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