Posted 1 year ago #
Hi, if you visit http://www.rockstarinnercircle.com
you will see in our popular posts plugin at the bottom of the page that we are getting & and things like "
are appearing.
What can we do about this?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/
Posted 1 year ago #
I am having the same issue with ampersands on my sidebar widget. Some posts with an ampersand print correctly and others print & amp; (I put the space in for the forum) in the title. Also saw this with one post that had an apostrophe in the title it printed & raquo; in the title instead of the apostrophe. Looking at the html code there is an extra ampersand in front of all of the entities. I am using WP 3.0 and WPP 2.1.4. Any help would be appreciated. You can view both sites that I use this on and see what I am talking about...
Posted 1 year ago #
Hi guys,
Please download WordPress Popular Posts 2.1.5 beta here and let me know if the HTML characters issue is solved.
Posted 1 year ago #
WPP 2.1.5 beta solved the HTML characters issue for me. Thanx!
Posted 1 year ago #
The beta worked for me as well. Thank you!
Posted 1 year ago #
Thank you, it fixed the problem for me as well. (WP 3.0.1)
Posted 1 year ago #
Hello,
it is works but not for the titles. Text showing as "text" but title is still "e;text"e;.
Posted 1 year ago #
I love this plugin, but I'm also having the problem with characters showing up in my post titles. Really annoying and I can't find a way around it. The link to the beta version is no longer working. =(
Posted 1 year ago #
I figured out a fix quite by accident. I simply edited the title of the post that was appearing with strange characters and saved the changes - meaning if there were html characters appearing where an apostrophe should be, I opened the post in the WordPress editor, deleted the apostrophe, put in a new one, and clicked the Update button. It now appears in this widget without the offending characters. Ta da!! =)
Posted 1 year ago #
I was having a similar issue and found that the culprit was on line 132 of the plugin file wordpress-popular-posts.php . The title is missing the htmlspecialchars_decode() function. Replace line 132 with the following:
echo htmlspecialchars_decode($instance['markup']['title-start'], ENT_QUOTES) . htmlspecialchars_decode($instance['title'], ENT_QUOTES) . htmlspecialchars_decode($instance['markup']['title-end'], ENT_QUOTES);
That should help with the special characters issues. Good luck!
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