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1. davidswain
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hello

   I am looking to build a site in wordpress but in my experiments i only seem to be able to have alpa numberic characters in urls. i would also like to use characater such as *

   Is there a way to configure wordpress to do this?

2. iridiax
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   The allowed and reserved characters in URLs are a web-wide thing, not just an issue with WordPress.

3. davidswain
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Well i have sen urls with characters like * in

4. davidswain
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Im not being clear.

   I would like to have urls like:

   http://www.example.com/tag/shopping-and-f***ing/

5. iridiax
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Asterisks are reserved characters for URLs (they have a special function), and thus WordPress correctly does not allow users to manually add them to URLs. You can instead use custom post slugs that include ---, xxx, or the actual word letters in place of the asterisks.

   For more info on characters in URLs and a table of reserved characters, see:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding

6. iridiax
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Also, note how this forum's software (which is not WordPress) broke your above URL at the asterisks.

7. davidswain
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Iridiax i see *sound of penny dropping*

   thank you ever so much for your help, i'll have a rethink.

8. mhjw
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   As an additional question: How can I use, in my link list, URLs with special characters (which are legal), such as süddeutsche.de, for example. Right now, WP is stripping them out.

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