WordPress messes up CSS class names

  • Resolved barq

    (@barq)


    14 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m having problems with WordPress rewriting certain CSS class names on WordPress pages when uploading the pages to my webhost. The pages work just fine locally on my machine running Mamp 1.9.6.

    For instance:

    <h2 class="type">

    becomes
    <h2 class="\"type\"">

    When uploaded to my web-host.I’ve been writing the code in the HTML editor. Any idea why this happens?

    See this page for instance:
    blog.barq.dk/services

    This also happened with WordPress 3.0, but still happens after upgrading to WP 3.0.

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    That sounds like a server issue – specifically to do with mysql_escape… sorry… mind’s gone blank. Can’t recall the exact PHP module name but contact your hosts and ask them to look into it for you.

    Thread Starter barq

    (@barq)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks a lot for your reply esmi! I told my webhost. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to now what exactly mysql_escape is and how to fix it. They turned off Magic Quotes, but it didn’t make any difference.

    Any ideas on what exact PHP module it is, or what else to do?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Magic Quotes! That’s it! Ask them if they’ve turned off magic_quotes_gpc, magic_quotes_runtime and magic_quotes_sybase.

    (The mysql_escape came from a php function that’s supposed to check to for magic quotes).

    Thread Starter barq

    (@barq)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks! It still hasn’t fixed the problem. Is there anything I can do to manually fix the problem?

    Thread Starter barq

    (@barq)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    To followup, I just tested my localhost (where the code works perfectly) and there Magic Quotes ARE enabled. So magic quotes aren’t the problem.

    Anybody has any idea on what else could be causing these “\problems?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Can you check the content of a sample post in your local database and in your remote server? It might help to pinpoint where the slashes are being added – at the input stage or when the content is displayed.

    Also try:

    – deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    – switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

    Thread Starter barq

    (@barq)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Esmi,

    Thanks a lot for your kind help. After following your tips I found out that it was SEO Smartlinks that added the slashes. Disabling it fixed the problem!

    Thanks again for your help!

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    No problem 🙂

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