Apostrophe words not linking

Hello @rushster,

WordPress replaces certain characters like apostrophes and quotes with the HTML entities of specific symbols. The HTML entities of these symbols should be used in the Keyword field of the autolink.

You can find the HTML entities by inspecting the page HTML.

So if I inspect the HTML, I see this

Naj’s Puzzler

This is how it should look and it’s the same in the HTML code.

I replaced the Keyword field with Naj8217s Puzzler and also tried Naj's Puzzler.

Neither worked. Any ideas?

Just did some more testing.

The correct entity I have added to replace the apostrophe (I found the correct one eventually). When I add that to the Keyword field, it removed the entity and replaced it back with a ‘ when editing the autolink. So the plugin is replacing the correct entity with a ‘ when I hit Update Autolink button and thus it won’t work because it keeps replacing the entity.

I can’t actually paste the correct entity I am using in here because it replaces it ??

Is there a way to get around this?

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The HTML entities are saved in the Keyword field, but when you edit the autolinks the HTML entities are displayed as characters. However, I verified they not all keywords with HTML entities are properly replaced with autolinks and I created a ticket to solve this.

Thanks. I did manage to get it working. It would be good if there was a field in the config where you could specify replacements instead of having to paste each one in. Would save a LOT of time from a user’s point of view.

Can you please add more details on this options? I don’t understand exactly its use. Thank you.

Instead of having to paste in a separate replacement HTML entity into every keyword field, in the options you could add fields where you can add a HTML entities = comma and the plugin would change all those when it checks for an autolink.

Thank you for all the details. I saved your feedback.