Minor bug in email-ad-enabled-user.tpl.php

Hello AWP Classifieds Team,

I found two small bugs and a translation issue in the email that is sent to the ad owner when an admin approves a listing. Both are in the template:

frontend/templates/email-ad-enabled-user.tpl.php

Environment: AWP Classifieds 4.4.7, WordPress (PHP 8.x), site language German (de_DE). Emails are sent as plain text.

Bug 1 — " shown literally instead of real quotation marks

The body line renders as:

Your Ad "Testanzeige" was recently approved by

Root cause (line 15): the string is wrapped in esc_html__(). Because the email is plain text, esc_html() converts the literal double quotes in the sentence into the HTML entity ", which is then shown verbatim in the plain-text mail. The same applies to esc_html( $listing_title ) and esc_html( $contact_name ) — any character that esc_html() encodes will appear as an HTML entity in the plain-text email.

Suggested fix: do not run esc_html() on content that goes into a plain-text email (use the raw translated string / $listing_title directly, or decode entities). This affects all languages, not only German.

Bug 2 — blog name and site URL run together (missing line break)

The footer renders as:

Dackel.dehttps://http://www.dackel.de

Root cause (lines 21–23): the blog name is echoed in one <?php ... ?> block and the URL in the next. PHP strips the single newline immediately following ?>, so there is no line break between the two values.

Suggested fix: emit an explicit newline, e.g. echo awpcp_get_blog_name() . "\n"; before echoing home_url().

Minor note (localization): In the bundled languages/another-wordpress-classifieds-plugin-de_DE.po, the body string “Your Ad “%1$s” was recently approved by the admin…” has an empty msgstr, so it falls back to English even on German sites. (The greeting “Hello %s,” is translated.) Adding the German translation would complete the localization.

Thanks for a great plugin!

Best regards,
Christian Ludger