It’s occurring for me when I output this
<?php
$blogs = "\"#\"";
wp_list_categories('orderby=name&exclude=2, 4&use_desc_for_title=1&title_li=<a href=' . $blogs . '>blogs</a>');
?>
I’m using the “pages” and “categories” as the menu system. I also found that if I add another value like ?page_id=18, it adds on the rest of the url before it. I’ve gone through some of the source code, mainly classes.php and post-template.php, to remove other styling and attempt to implement the <a href in the code that’s output for the title, but when I backslash the code there, it too outputs the same garbled garbage. At this point I think I may have to apply another rule to this so it doesn’t look off.