Hi sentinelchicken,
Can you provide the URL to the page where this is happening.
Hi wpsmort,
Of course. I can’t give you a link to the wp_admin page obviously, but here’s an example of a page where AOI SEO has left the text as ascii. It is pages like this that I am now unable to edit the title and description.
http://www.tuscialets.co.uk/guestbook-2/
Apologies for not including a link in the first place.
Hi sentinelchicken,
I took a look at the source for this page and it looks correct to me. Can you describe to me what this looks like in the All In One SEO Pack metabox, is it just an apostrophe / single quote character? Also, does it not let you edit the field at all, or does it not update the title when you publish the post? Note that this could also be due to a conflict with another plugin or with your theme, so it might be worth deactivating any plugins that may also be active when you edit pages, or test against a default theme such as Twenty Eleven or Twenty Twelve.
Hi Peter,
In the metaboxes (by which I mean the fields displayed in the default page of the pages section), the titles and descriptions all look fine apart from the ascii code which only affects some of the boxes (some of the apostrophes are showing normally). It’s showing the whole of the ascii code for an apostrophe (&# 39; – excuse spacing- can’t work out how to show the code). Interestingly enough, when I go into the relevant pages, all the apostrophes are rendered normally (ie no ascii).
UPDATE – I have managed to fix the problem of the ascii characters displaying in the metaboxes by editing the relevant fields in the pages themselves. I deleted the apostrophe and readded it, then saved the page and the ascii code disappeared from the metaboxes.
However, the fields that were affected by the ascii remain uneditable in the metaboxes. By that I mean, when I click the pencil image/edit link nothing happens. When I click the same link on a box not previously affected by the ascii code, it shows the dialogue box for me to edit the field. When I edit one of the problematic fields via the page, the changes save fine and are reflected in the metaboxes.
FYI, I only installed the app a few days ago. When I first added the meta data, I did so via the metaboxes (not in the pages themselves) and the problem with the ascii and non-editing boxes appeared straight away.
The site is live so it’s hard for me to switch the theme. I’ll try turning off the other plugins but I’m not running any other SEO plugins.
I hope that all makes sense! Do come back to me with questions if not. I love the app despite these issues. Much appreciate you coming on the forum to help with support requests.
Many thanks.
Peter,
One other thing, I managed to sort out the ascii code earlier this afternoon but hadn’t had time to come on here and post my update. Before I changed it, the ascii code was being used in the title/description for the page. It is showing fine now because of the changes I made this afternoon.
Hi sentinelchicken,
Thanks for the details, it sounds like this is a bug with apostrophes related to the Quick Edit feature, i.e. that pencil icon you see there. I’ll see that this gets fixed in the next version, in the meantime, if the pencil doesn’t work for you, just edit the titles and descriptions directly on the page.
Incidentally, what you have up there looks like a regular apostrophe inside of an HTML comment – if that’s what you were seeing, I’ve certainly never see that show up before for an apostrophe.
Hi Peter,
Please excuse the html around the apostrophe ascii code. No, it’s not in the metaboxes. I was just trying to show you the ascii code without this page rendering it as an apostrophe. Now I see that I needed to use backticks!
