The Code Block is to display things just as you typed them, so it may encode to ensure no code actually executes. The HTML block is the reverse – it is to execute code exactly as you typed it, so it doesn’t encode. This is intentional, so you can either show or execute code, depending … Read more
Why does the usermeta table contain html entities?
I have checked with 4.9.1 as well as 5.0-alpha there is no problem with ‘\’. Please check it after deactivating all plugins and activating the default theme of WordPress.
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
Your update_option should be inside a hook callback and should check to see if $_POST[‘custom_welcome_panel’] is set before trying to update the option. Otherwise that could be overwriting your option every time the page loads. And, honestly, as written I could shove anything I wanted into that option value. I’d just have to send a … Read more
Try using sanitize_text_field instead of esc_html wp> $search_query = “Dalton’s Law <br/>”; string(18) “Dalton’s Law <br/>” wp> $query = apply_filters( ‘get_search_query’, $search_query ); string(18) “Dalton’s Law <br/>” wp> $esc_html = esc_html( $query ); string(29) “Dalton's Law <br/>” wp> $sanitized = sanitize_text_field( $query ); string(12) “Dalton’s Law” esc_html should be used to escape output before it … Read more
It looks like your custom font is missing for this char. Try use “eraser” tool in editor to format styles for this text.
Are you creating your users via regular means or somehow importing them? Trying to create such user WP prevents me from doing so: ERROR: This username is invalid because it uses illegal characters. Please enter a valid username. The reason for that is that username is validated with validate_username(), which runs sanitize_user() in strict mode. … Read more
This is caused by wptexturize and the use of a standard <div> to contain your code. See https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wptexturize/ Instead, markup code as code: Text enclosed in the tags <pre>, <code>, <kbd>, <style>, <script>, and <tt> will be skipped. This list of tags can be changed with the no_texturize_tags filter. Note that the HTML block just … Read more
If I’m allowed to answer my own question here: I found a way to stop the conversion of my html entities back to characters by using <?php esc_textarea( $text ) ?>, as detailed by the codex here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/esc_textarea. Not sure if this is the right way of doing it, but its working. My (snipped) metabox … Read more