In another instance, I am trying to have some HTML (a div and script tag) be presented after the form is submitted, but there are two bugs with Forminator making it impossible: (1) The ampersand (&) in a URI keeps getting replaced by & which breaks the whole thing. This was mentioned in a number of Forminator support threads. They were closed as resolved saying it would be fixed with an update, but the updates have not fixed it. (2) Any script I add to an HTML field is removed by Forminator upon saving. I am trying to use Forminator to gather info and conditionally pass some info via URI parameters to another service. I want it to act as a wall to not show this content except upon submission, but I cannot get Forminator to show this content. I really love Forminator and recommend it all the time, but Forminator is making this basic outcome impossible.

this is the URL that appears on the destination website. The ampersand symbol has been replaed with the semicolon
https://website.com/product/product1/?ref=8343#038;cmp=dt-test

first thank you for this wonderful plugin which makes life lot easier.

until i spotted the following behaviour

It could be a misbehaviour in the plugin, maybe some char utf8-ish configuration issue, some security issue thingy or misunderstatement from me.

so when duplicating a post which contains the ampersand character & in post_title, then in the duplicated post the ampersand character is encoded.
e.g.:
original post title “cool & the gang”
duplicate post title “cool & the gang”
which for me, is not a super exact duplicate.

this is caused by the usage of wp_kses_post .
in this line: https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/post-duplicator/tags/2.32/includes/ajax.php#L20

found some similar issue on another topic of WordPress here: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/20490

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Plugin Version: Version 2.32
WordPress Version 6.4.3

I have a form that does some calculations and then redirects on submission to a results page, where it passes these parameters:

?a=5&b=10

This used to work fine, but some update broke it and the form now redirects to:

?a=5#038;b=10

The & is being replaced with #038; and it is breaking my results page because I cannot parse the URL params from it.

I’ve searched and I have found multiple threads about this. One from here said use AJAX instead of page reload. This worked but it introduced a new problem. Just before the redirect, it flashes the beginning of the form for a few seconds, where I have a welcome message and instructions. To the user this is confusing submission behaviour and makes the form seem broken – as if it had reset to the beginning – before you are taken to the results page.

Another I found on the WPMU Dev forum said edit the forminator/build/front//front.multi.min.js file and replace (i.location.href = o.data.url) with (i.location.href = o.data.url.replace("#038;","&";).replace("&&","&";)) but I can’t find that line anywhere in the file. It must’ve changed in an update.

Please help!

The url is actually provided in a hidden field. Then, in the form behavior, we are using “Redirect user to a URL” and the Redirect URL field has this in it:

{hidden-4}&promo=SponsorCode

I’ve tried substituting the ampersand code ‘%26’ in the above, but that gets ignored and dropped entirely. Do I need to intercept the form via a Forminator API function and fix it there? If so, can you suggest a function? I’m not sure what hook could be used to intercept before the user gets redirected.

Thanks for any help!

I noticed that when filtering on a category which includes an ampersand, the filter doesn’t work. I get the message “No products were found matching your selection.”

Is there a quick fix for this issue?

Thanks,

Maarten

The problem can be seen in a footer link for “Terms & Conditions”. Elsewhere on the site, however, it is correctly translating the ampersand as “und”.

A custom field is being used to generate the footer’s “Terms & Conditions” text. Would it matter if I’m using esc_html with this text variable or not?

Is there something I can do to resolve this issue?

when the HTML gets renderized, the ampsersand are ok, but in the source code remains as & amp;

Example:

Call to https://www.ads-software.com?id=111&type=test turns on https://www.ads-software.com?id=111& amp;type=test

on my noamp pages, those calls doesn’t change de ampersand and everything works fine.

I have the latest version of the plugin

The function in wordpress for content doesn’t do it. It’s gumming up a shortcode I’m trying to use.

Thanks for any insight anyone has!

The following does NOT work:

add_filter( 'the_content', 'filter_the_amp_content',100 );
  
function filter_the_amp_content( $content ) {
  
          $content =  str_replace("&","&",$content);
   
    return $content;
}

I’ve found a problem with the Gutenberg shortcode block and it affects to Wp Show Posts attributes in shortcode.

I’m using Wp Show Posts shortcode like this:

[wp_show_posts id="76440" settings="taxonomy=category&tax_term=category_1"]

I haven’t detected when exactly does it happen but sometimes the ampersand character gets escaped and changes to & so the shortcode stops working as expected.

It’s weird because it doesn’t happen always. I mean the shortcode works correctly at first and I can edit and save the page several times and the & character isn’t escaped.

Then all of a sudden it changes all ampersand characters in all the shortcode blocks I have in the same page. And even though I recover a previous revision, the escaped character persists until I edit all shortcodes and save the page.

Searching Google it seems that this is a problem with html and shortcode block. Do you know a fix for this or another way to avoid it? or any way to make wp show posts use the escaped character as well as the original?