1) For escaping content of textarea you should use esc_textarea and not esc_attr. 2) You should not escape things when storing them in the DB, escaping should be done only at output time. (I assume that you can find an edge case in which it might be needed, but as a general rule, just don’t … Read more
Avoid glitchy characters – my own version of the problem
How to properly encode url with parameters for redirect_to
Here’s the answer: Load wp_get_document_title(); into a variable. Use ‘rawurlencode’ on the variable. Also, apparently one can use a ” , ” to join to strings and not just ” . “ global $wp; $url = home_url( $wp->request ); $page_title = wp_get_document_title(); ?> <?php echo ‘<p class=”side-bar-buttons”><i class=”fa fa-envelope” aria-hidden=”true”></i> ‘; echo ‘<a href=mailto:?subject=” , … Read more
You need to filter ‘sanitize_title’ and use the second argument, the raw title. See my plugin Germanix for an example.
Consider this function as a rough placeholder. It has more flaws than you might imagine … 🙂 There are many plugins to improve the conversion for different languages and needs. You may take a look at my plugin Germanix to see how this could be done.
No, it is not entirely possible. WordPress is using Percent encoding to sanitise the slug. You could undo this, and it would deliver nonlatin characters, but the browser would immediately swap these out for percent encoded characters when you tried to visit the page. Wether your database will store these characters, and the table encoding … Read more
EDIT: Disable magic_quotes_gpc in your server. try adding in .HTACCESS file (if you on shared hosting): php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off If you’ll get 500 server error after you added it – delete it and put this: ini_set (‘magic_quotes_gpc’, 0); in theme’s functions.php file. And with function bellow check is it on. You can create php file … Read more
Using a snippet of code like this: $hook_name=”the_content”; global $wp_filter; var_dump($wp_filter[$hook_name]); I was able to find a list of all hooked callback functions to the WordPress filter: the_content. I then located a few possible culprits, then searched for their function existence. After narrowing down my list, I came to the conclusion on the hooked callback … Read more
Turns out that this specific issue was caused by someone on the IT team who wasn’t very experienced with WordPress adding some code that they found on a poorly written WordPress blog that literally starts out with an unmarked example of what not to do. According to the IT team, this line added to wp-config.php … Read more