'&nbsp'? visible in product title and category name

&nbsp is probably meant to be   which is a hard space. Did you try replacing it with a soft space? Is it on all titles or just some of them? Could you post a link to your site.

I’m having this issue on a client’s site. You can see an example of it here: https://helamangallery.com/product/art/plan-of-salvation-digital-painting/ retyping the title doesn’t fix it. It continues to appear. Tried repairing and optimizing the database thinking maybe something was out of whack there, but no help. I’ll check with the WooThemes people, since it seems like it’s a WooCommerce issue, but wanted to put this in a public forum for others to find, that might have the same issue.

I haven’t seen other threads on here about this, so maybe its not a general WooCommerce problem. Did you try deactivating other plugins and switching to the default theme to be able to rule out other software components as the cause.

Otherwise try this code in functions.php of your child theme.

add_filter('the_title', 'modify_title', 10);
function modify_title( $title ) {
  return str_replace(" ", " ", $title);
}

We shouldn’t have to have a filter to fix this. There’s got to be another cause/solution. But thanks for the idea.

I’ve found a thread on it over on WPMUDEV. But no solution. So there’s at least 3 of us who are are seeing it only in WooCommerce titles, and not elsewhere (eg posts, or other CPT’s).

I disabled all plugins except the WooThemes ones. That didn’t change anything. I also tried removing the spaces. The nbsp; would move up to the last space available, each time.

I’ve reported this to WooThemes support and am working with them on it. But thought I’d report it here.

I’m using a different theme from Wdworx here: Argentum by WooThemes. So not sure, but don’t think it’s a theme issue.

Tevya, did you end up getting a solution to this problem from WooThemes? I’ve had the same issue on my Argentum site…

@swingcopation sorta. We switched to a non-WooThemes theme, and the problem went away. So we suspect it’s a bug in either the theme, or the WooThemes Framework. I messaged them about it, but it was sometime after the fact and they’d already closed the ticket I opened with them. So I’m not sure they’ve actually investigated it. I’d recommend opening a ticket with them, as it seems to exist when using WooCommerce with a WooTheme. And make sure to link to this thread, to show them it’s a problem others of us have experienced, not just an isolated issue.

Also Wayne Stratton contacted me about it on twitter as well. See here: https://twitter.com/WayneStratton/status/664320684265443329

I alerted them to the issue here: https://twitter.com/WooThemes/status/669522292968296448 but as you’ll see, seemingly no interest in looking into it, unless I opened another ticket.

Hi All,

This is an issue with a function in the theme the original poster specified (the “Emporium” theme).

We have an issue logged for this in our issue tracker for the theme, and will be releasing a theme update to remedy this soonest.

Thank you for your patience in this regard.

Thanks Matty! Glad you all are taking care of it.

Swingcopation and I both saw it in the Argentum theme as well.

Hi Tevya,

Checking in here to confirm that updates to both Argentum and Emporium have been deployed, both including a fix for this issue.

Thanks for your patience on this!

It’s not affecting us anymore, because we switched themes, but good to know. should be helpful for others who encounter it.