WordPress is now encoding ampersands in my urls or links in posts and it is causing problems.
Willy
Any ideas, I think this is a bug or a change in behavior with 4.2.3
The post content is correct in the database.
Willy
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Does the issue persist with all plugins deactivated? Where are you putting these URLs? Can you link to a page with the issue?
Thanks:
Search for link directly after, working
id=”evp-f20660315cea03d4b82db69b7138ef51-wrap”
in http://www.jewelheart.org/
Search for link directly after with entities, not working
id=”evp-00fd017c54bbd3fb912ed33d84cfbdfd-wrap”
http://www.jewelheart.org/digital-dharma/sundays-with-gelek-rimpoche-1/
One is in a post and one is not. This worked before the 4.2.3 update.
Willy
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Not sure I see the link with the issue. What is the text of the link on that page: http://www.jewelheart.org/ ?
Thanks:
This is the first object embed.
<div id=”evp-f20660315cea03d4b82db69b7138ef51-wrap” class=”evp-video-wrap”></div><script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://jewelheart.org/video/framework.php?div_id=evp-f20660315cea03d4b82db69b7138ef51&id=MjAxNWdyc3QyMy0xLm1wNA%3D%3D&v=1437583421&profile=default”></script><script type=”text/javascript”><!–
_evpInit(‘MjAxNWdyc3QyMy0xLm1wNA==[evp-f20660315cea03d4b82db69b7138ef51]’);//–></script>
The link is the framework.php link.
Here is the second one.
<div id=”evp-00fd017c54bbd3fb912ed33d84cfbdfd-wrap” class=”evp-video-wrap”></div><script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://jewelheart.org/video/framework.php?div_id=evp-00fd017c54bbd3fb912ed33d84cfbdfd&id=MjAxNWdyc3QwMS0yLm1wNA%3D%3D&v=1426085386&profile=default”></script><script type=”text/javascript”><!– _evpInit(‘MjAxNWdyc3QwMS0yLm1wNA==[evp-00fd017c54bbd3fb912ed33d84cfbdfd]’);//–></script>
In the last post I left links out since the forum inserts entities. You have to look at the source to see the difference.
Willy
Andrew:
Just to be clear, this is a real problem. Link tags are also having the ampersands turned into entities. So when you use the WordPress editor to render a link with a querystring the ampersands in the url are being transformed to entities.
Most browsers will look past this, but I wouldn’t call it desired behavior.
As I said, a link
So http://www.url.com/i=1&j=2
will render
http://www.url.com/i=1#038;j=2
in the source.
In a WordPress post:
<a href="http://www.url.com/i=1&j=2">Link Text</a>
will render in the source
<a href="http://www.url.com/i=1#038;j=2">Link Text</a>
Imagine the ampersand, the forum applies entities.
Willy
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Urls are supposed to have entities escaped by the way. Otherwise it fails the W3C validator
Andrew:
Thank you, my concerns were alleviated by trying a $_GET on both url styles.
A plugin broke with this update, but its actually something I need to attend to anyway.
Willy
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Do you know which plugin broke? Maybe we can forward you onto the right people
Andrew:
It’s ezvideo player. It could be that I need to update it, I believe it is not free, I inherited it.
I just looked, and I am not sure which ezvideo player it is. There could be more than one.
Thanks, Willy
