Ampersand Issue

  • Apologies, I had no idea where to ask this, but I work for a website that uses wordpress to make its articles. Other people use it with me, but for some reason I’ve run into a problem with Ampersands. Now I KNOW in code that ampersands are produced as “& amp;” – but they’ve never appeared that way for me in code view before. They always used to be just “&”. When the post is published, I still see just “& amp;” as the output but I want my code view to stop replacing my ampersands with “& amp;”. Here’s a link to an image:

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    Notice the “& amp;”? All my ampersands keep getting turned into those, but I want it to stay as just “&”.

    • This topic was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by dgdskhdshsdj.
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  • synorae

    (@synorae)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    No need to apologize!

    Is the code button deselected in the text box?

    Thread Starter dgdskhdshsdj

    (@dgdskhdshsdj)

    The code button was not pressed, otherwise “code” would be written there on the image inside the sideways carrots (< and >)

    Also I tried using my laptop and I get the same problem on there as well…

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by dgdskhdshsdj.
    Moderator Jose Castaneda

    (@jcastaneda)

    THEME COFFEE MONKEY

    Hey @dgdskhdshsdj

    The WordPress editor converts some characters to their HTML entities. This often happens when you switch between the Visual and Text editor. For example, the > would be converted to > and < becomes < respectively. There are several others that it applies it too and as I mentioned it happens when switching between visual and text modes.

    Thread Starter dgdskhdshsdj

    (@dgdskhdshsdj)

    Sorry for bumping this but I still need this question answered. I just want ampersands to stay as “&” when I type them – they started appearing as “& amp;” randomly one day. I’m talking in Text View. No one else using the same WordPress as me has this problem. While the “&”s show up in the Text View, they oddly don’t show up for me in the preview – other users of my WordPress tell me that these “&” appear for them however. This can’t be the first time this has ever happened to somebody.

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