Title: WordPress comments
Last modified: July 2, 2021

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# WordPress comments

 *  [vishnuvardhan1990](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vishnuvardhan1990/)
 * (@vishnuvardhan1990)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-comments-5/)
 * when entering URL with special characters in comments, URL are getting displayed
   as broken links as below.
 * Ex: `www.test-(1).com`
 * As default behavior of WordPress comments the entire URL should be rendered with
   HTML as follows `<a href="www.test-(1).com">www.test-(1).com</a>` but this is
   getting broken as it has special characters open and close braces and getting
   updated as follows `<p><a href="http://www.test-" rel="nofollow">http://www.test-
   </a>(1).com</p>`
 * Could anyone help us to resolve this issue
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress
      topic
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fwordpress-comments-5%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Dan Soschin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dansoschin/)
 * (@dansoschin)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-comments-5/#post-14620236)
 * Hi!
 * The standards for domain names do not permit parenthesis “()”. These may only
   exist in the path or query string portions of a URL. That is likely what is causing
   the issue.
 * If you move the parenthesis after the domain name (and path), it should render
   correctly.
 * For example, when I test entering your URL into the comments of my test WordPress
   install, it renders similar to your issue.
 * However, when I enter this URL: `https://www.test.com?test-(1)` the URL renders
   correctly in the comments.
    -  This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by [Dan Soschin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dansoschin/).

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Dan Soschin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dansoschin/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-comments-5/#post-14620236)
 * Status: not resolved

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