wordpress dashboard adds in all input fields which cause a reload or load

  • Hello,

    when I type something in an input field in one of my specific WordPress installations, and this input field is passed to another page in the dashboard, e.g. the local plugin search “SVG Support” is redirected to the general plugin search online, then suddenly the search query has changed to “SVG%20Support”.

    Does anyone know what is wrong with WordPress? I’ve never seen this error before…

    thanks, hirschferkel

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  • Does anyone know what is wrong with WordPress? I’ve never seen this error before…

    This is not an error, and there’s nothing wrong here ??

    Space and %20 are equivalent in URLs. The reason is that URLs cannot contain spaces. So the space is converted to its equivalent Unicode representation, which is %20.

    That means the two URLs:

    https://example.com/SVG Support, and

    https://example.com/SVG%20Support

    … are equivalent and will lead to the same destination. In fact, if you click the first one with the space, your browser will convert it to the second one with the %20.

    e.g. the local plugin search “SVG Support” is redirected to the general plugin search online, then suddenly the search query has changed to “SVG%20Support”.

    Yes, see above. Internally, WordPress understands this encoding and will return the results if it can find what you typed. See the screenshot below.

    Thread Starter hirschferkel

    (@hirschferkel)

    I understand, but the search field will not contain “svg support” as in your screenshot and in all my other installations, but “svg%20support” instead. So you think this is really no error?

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    As I said, the two are EQUIVALENT — they mean exactly the same thing to the computers performing the search — so it doesn’t matter what is shown, the correct search is performed.

    Yes, I agree that displaying the cryptic messaging to users is not good (I’m not sure which version this came about)… but it doesn’t affect the actual search.

    Thread Starter hirschferkel

    (@hirschferkel)

    o.k thanks for your help. At least it really looks strange …

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