Title: Cannot process strings programmatically…? Last modified: February 14, 2022 --- # Cannot process strings programmatically…? * Resolved [leanderbraunschweig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leanderbraunschweig/) * (@leanderbraunschweig) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-process-strings-programmatically/) * Hi there, * first of all: What a great plugin, many many thanks for creating and maintaining it! * I encountered an issue where I could use some advice… * I am trying to filter / process a string in order to add hyphenation but cannot get it to work. I double-checked already that a) no other filtering is happening which could remove the `­`-tags and b) that the function calls are working fine and c) the user settings are correctly set. * So essentially this is my demo code: * ``` if(class_exists('WP_Typography')) { $s = \WP_Typography::get_user_settings(); $title_with_big_words = 'Bei Profis und Amateuren gleichermaßen beliebtes Leinenschläppchen mit geteilter Sohle'; $hyphenated_title = \WP_Typography::process_title($title_with_big_words, $s); echo $hyphenated_title; } ``` * And this is what I am getting: * `Bei Profis und Amateuren gleichermaßen beliebtes Leinenschläppchen mit geteilter Sohle` * But I would expect to see: * `Bei Pro­fis und Ama­teu­ren glei­cher­ma­ßen belieb& shy;tes Lei­nen­schläpp­chen mit geteil­ter Soh­le` * What could be the culprit here? * I can var_dump the settings object just fine and wp-typogrophy definitely works because the content filtering is happening and I am seeing the `­`-tags there just fine. * Using WP 5.9 with the latest plugin version. * Thanks for any help regarding further debugging this! - This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by [leanderbraunschweig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leanderbraunschweig/). Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * Plugin Author [pepe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pputzer/) * (@pputzer) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-process-strings-programmatically/#post-15365133) * Can you post the settings dump (JSON would be best)? You have probably disabled hyphenation for titles. * Thread Starter [leanderbraunschweig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leanderbraunschweig/) * (@leanderbraunschweig) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-process-strings-programmatically/#post-15366019) * Hi [@pputzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pputzer/), * you are right – title hyphenation was unchecked / disabled and thus the `WP_Typography:: process_title`-function couldn’t work… * But deviating from the code I have posted above I am actually using `WP_Typography:: process` in order to hyphenate my string and that doesn’t work as well despite not falling under said setting. Obviously the title-setting overwrites any hyphenation- processing? * Guess we would like to not have the titles be hyphenated and still programmatically process strings – how would that be possible? * Thanks & regards! * Plugin Author [pepe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pputzer/) * (@pputzer) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-process-strings-programmatically/#post-15369146) * Please post your settings array and your updated `WP_Typography::process` line( including the exact HTML fragment). The interplay between settings and what is considered a title for hyphenation purposes is a bit complex. * Thread Starter [leanderbraunschweig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leanderbraunschweig/) * (@leanderbraunschweig) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-process-strings-programmatically/#post-15370253) * Hi [@pputzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pputzer/), * sure thing: * **Settings output** * [See this gist](https://gist.github.com/E-VANCE/24404a5fdf133b5ebb0a0b34056bb12d) * **Filter / code used** * ``` // Add product sublines (via ACF) add_action('woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item_title', function() { $tagline = get_field('tagline'); if(class_exists('WP_Typography')) { $s = \WP_Typography::get_user_settings(); $tagline = \WP_Typography::process($tagline, $s); } echo '

' . $tagline . '

'; }, 9); ``` * Besides the action hook I also tested directly in the template, thus the usage of a filter / hook or not doesn’t make a difference with regards to the missing hyphenation here… * I can also send you the link to our development environment where you can view the output directly if that is helpful. * Thanks so much for looking into this! * Plugin Author [pepe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pputzer/) * (@pputzer) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-process-strings-programmatically/#post-15373225) * [@leanderbraunschweig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leanderbraunschweig/) what does `$tagline` contain exactly? * (BTW, when you don’t change the settings as defined in the plugin options, you can omit the parameter, no need to copy the object.) * Thread Starter [leanderbraunschweig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leanderbraunschweig/) * (@leanderbraunschweig) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-process-strings-programmatically/#post-15378281) * Hi [@pputzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pputzer/), * > What does $tagline contain exactly? * Just a regular string… It works fine when activating the “hyphenate titles” option. And I tried with said string _“Bei Profis und Amateuren gleichermaßen beliebtes Leinenschläppchen mit geteilter Sohle”_ directly to go around any possible issues with input or filters and could reproduce the behaviour. * Did you test on your end yet? Should be easily reproducible – at least that’s my guess. * > (BTW, when you don’t change the settings as defined in the plugin options, > you can omit the parameter, no need to copy the object.) * Makes sense 🙂 Thanks for pointing it out! * Plugin Author [pepe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pputzer/) * (@pputzer) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-process-strings-programmatically/#post-15384803) * Ah, I meant which string is contained in `$tagline` (including any markup). * Thread Starter [leanderbraunschweig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leanderbraunschweig/) * (@leanderbraunschweig) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-process-strings-programmatically/#post-15412029) * [@pputzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pputzer/) * No markup, just a string like * > Wildleder-Tanzschuh, kleiner Absatz * Plugin Author [pepe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pputzer/) * (@pputzer) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-process-strings-programmatically/#post-15412424) * Weird then. I’ll have to look more closely at this. * Plugin Author [pepe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pputzer/) * (@pputzer) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-process-strings-programmatically/#post-15431649) * Hi [@leanderbraunschweig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leanderbraunschweig/), I overlooked something previously: In your snippet, you call `::process` with the same parameters as `::process_title`. However, it has a different signature( some additional boolean parameters in between `$text` and `$settings`). The first of these is the `$is_title` parameter. The settings object evaluates to `true` in a boolean context, so you are basically using `process_title` by accident. * Thread Starter [leanderbraunschweig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leanderbraunschweig/) * (@leanderbraunschweig) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-process-strings-programmatically/#post-15434682) * Ah, gotcha – that makes sense then… * I followed [your documentation](https://code.mundschenk.at/wp-typography/api/) and there it doesn’t mention the `$is_title` parameter. I could / should have checked the source I guess 😐 * Anyhow, thanks for getting back and I’ll adjust the code accordingly. - This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by [leanderbraunschweig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leanderbraunschweig/). * Plugin Author [pepe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pputzer/) * (@pputzer) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-process-strings-programmatically/#post-15435683) * Thanks, I’ve fixed this documentation bug. Looks like all the parameter sections were copy-pasta. I’ll have to look into autogenerating the API documentation again (was not easy to set up a nice theme last time, so I dropped it). 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