URL Problems

WordPress is now encoding ampersands in my urls or links in posts and it is causing problems.

Willy

Any ideas, I think this is a bug or a change in behavior with 4.2.3

The post content is correct in the database.

Willy

Does the issue persist with all plugins deactivated? Where are you putting these URLs? Can you link to a page with the issue?

Thanks:

Search for link directly after, working

id=”evp-f20660315cea03d4b82db69b7138ef51-wrap”

in https://www.jewelheart.org/

Search for link directly after with entities, not working

id=”evp-00fd017c54bbd3fb912ed33d84cfbdfd-wrap”

https://www.jewelheart.org/digital-dharma/sundays-with-gelek-rimpoche-1/

One is in a post and one is not. This worked before the 4.2.3 update.

Willy

Not sure I see the link with the issue. What is the text of the link on that page: https://www.jewelheart.org/ ?

Thanks:

This is the first object embed.

<div id=”evp-f20660315cea03d4b82db69b7138ef51-wrap” class=”evp-video-wrap”></div><script type=”text/javascript” src=”https://jewelheart.org/video/framework.php?div_id=evp-f20660315cea03d4b82db69b7138ef51&id=MjAxNWdyc3QyMy0xLm1wNA%3D%3D&v=1437583421&profile=default”></script><script type=”text/javascript”><!–
_evpInit(‘MjAxNWdyc3QyMy0xLm1wNA==[evp-f20660315cea03d4b82db69b7138ef51]’);//–></script>

The link is the framework.php link.

Here is the second one.

<div id=”evp-00fd017c54bbd3fb912ed33d84cfbdfd-wrap” class=”evp-video-wrap”></div><script type=”text/javascript” src=”https://jewelheart.org/video/framework.php?div_id=evp-00fd017c54bbd3fb912ed33d84cfbdfd&id=MjAxNWdyc3QwMS0yLm1wNA%3D%3D&v=1426085386&profile=default”></script><script type=”text/javascript”><!– _evpInit(‘MjAxNWdyc3QwMS0yLm1wNA==[evp-00fd017c54bbd3fb912ed33d84cfbdfd]’);//–></script>

In the last post I left links out since the forum inserts entities. You have to look at the source to see the difference.

Willy

Andrew:

Just to be clear, this is a real problem. Link tags are also having the ampersands turned into entities. So when you use the WordPress editor to render a link with a querystring the ampersands in the url are being transformed to entities.

Most browsers will look past this, but I wouldn’t call it desired behavior.

As I said, a link

So https://www.url.com/i=1&j=2

will render

https://www.url.com/i=1#038;j=2

in the source.

In a WordPress post:

<a href="https://www.url.com/i=1&j=2">Link Text</a>

will render in the source

<a href="https://www.url.com/i=1#038;j=2">Link Text</a>

Imagine the ampersand, the forum applies entities.

Willy

Urls are supposed to have entities escaped by the way. Otherwise it fails the W3C validator

Andrew:

Thank you, my concerns were alleviated by trying a $_GET on both url styles.

A plugin broke with this update, but its actually something I need to attend to anyway.

Willy

Do you know which plugin broke? Maybe we can forward you onto the right people

Andrew:

It’s ezvideo player. It could be that I need to update it, I believe it is not free, I inherited it.

I just looked, and I am not sure which ezvideo player it is. There could be more than one.

Thanks, Willy