Using ampersands in link manager

  • Hello,

    I’ve had a bit of a look around and I can’t seem to find a solution to this problem. In my link manager I have a couple of links that make use of my Amazon and Tradedoubler affiliate accounts, both of which use the ampersand in the URI. The problem I have is that when I type the link with the ampersands it comes out with ‘&’ instead.
    If I replace the ampersands in the link with ‘&’ it simply outputs the same, but when I return to the link manager to edit, the ampersand has returned.
    If I then try ‘&’ in the link instead, it outputs ‘&’ in the link, and when I return to edit the link it has reverted to an ampersand once more.

    I hope all of the above was fairly clear and that it generally makes sense, and that somebody can shed me some light!

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  • Thread Starter bigmaddrongo

    (@bigmaddrongo)

    OK, so that didn’t quite work, I’d better do it the long way.

    If I type the links using &, it outputs as &

    If I replace the & in the link with &, it outputs as &

    If I try using & in the link, it outputs, you guessed it, &

    In both of the two solutions I’ve tried, when I re-edit the link in the Link Manager, the & has returned as if by magic!

    Thread Starter bigmaddrongo

    (@bigmaddrongo)

    Grr, still not showing all the entities properly. Anyway, it’s all in the source if you need the details. Any help gratefully received!

    ejm

    (@llizard)

    bump… I’m having difficulty with this as well.

    I would like to link to various books at bookfinder.com onto my menu. Each link looks like this at the end:

    ?author=author+name&title=book+title&st=xl&ac=qr

    If I paste it in as it looks above, the result is:

    ?author=author+name&title=book+title&st=xl&ac=qr

    I tried replacing each ampersand with %26 and the questionmark with %3F and it looks like the link should work correctly. But alas, it does not. For some reason, when that is translated, it adds a slash / to the end of the URL causing it not to work correctly.

    Please advise….

    (I’m running WordPress 1.2.2)

    Excuse me for replying to myself. I went into mIRC to try to find out about this. It was suggested that I do a bug report. I dutifully checked to see if there was already a report, I find that this bug has allegedly been resolved in 1.3 (or is it 1.5?)

    https://mosquito.www.ads-software.com/view_all_bug_page.php

    Too bad there appears to be no patch for earlier wp versions.

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