signale

But why it’s like /?post=35%2F – try to open it – why is it / encoded?

ok, so I’ve noticed that when I remove / from the target it works ok, though I’ve tried with and without the flag

Ignore trailing slashes (i.e. /exciting-post/ will match /exciting-post)

now it displays the url if you scroll down, but its’ done through the code. I mean when I redirect from the Blog page intending it would directly to the /?post=35 – it would do this /?post=35%2F and redirect to the home

• This reply was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by signale.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by signale.

oh, forgot to mention, my native slug in WordPress looks like test%282%29 which later translates into test(2)

• This reply was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by signale.

Hi again. This time I’m contributing and saving someone’s life in the future 🙂

So I actually managed to accomplish needed effect. And somehow it all fell in such way that even old browsers will be able to process it.

So what I did was:
1. Deactivate all Custom Permalinks plugins as for some reason they just don’t seem to influence on a native slug.
2. Next I’ve just added

if(strpos($permalink,'%28')!== false)
			$permalink = urldecode($permalink);

which checks if the permalink contains encoding and decodes it if it does.
3. The same logic used for other symbols (like $)

And this code must be implemented in the post_link filter.

The entire code in a proper form for those in need

function bis_post_permalinks($permalink, $post) {
	if(!empty($post->post_type) && $post->post_type == 'post' && is_single()) {
		$home_url = trim(get_home_url(), '/');

		// Old format
		if(strtotime($post->post_date) < strtotime('2020-02-15')) {
			$permalink = add_query_arg('post', $post->ID, $home_url);
		}
		// New format
		else {
			$permalink = sprintf('%s/post/%s', $home_url, $post->post_name);
			if(strpos($permalink,'%28')!== false)
			$permalink = urldecode($permalink);
		}
	}
	
	return $permalink;
}

add_filter('post_link', 'bis_post_permalinks', 9999, 2);

Remember it’s a custom case, all you need – the part with filter and strpos.

This exact code won’t work, unless you set

add_action('init', 'set_new_tag');
function set_new_tag(){
if(!empty($_GET['post']) && is_numeric($_GET['post'])) {
  $_GET['p'] = (int) $_GET['post'];
}
}

in the beginning of functions.php

In fact for some ordinary use you just do:

function bis_post_permalinks($permalink, $post) {
		if(strpos($permalink,'%28')!== false)
			$permalink = urldecode($permalink);
	
	return $permalink;
}

add_filter('post_link', 'bis_post_permalinks', 9999, 2);

Hello, Maciej.
Thanks for the help.
You’re right I’ve chosen the urldecode route and it lead nowhere.
I’ve used the code and was able to make some progress. Thus I managed to display brackets (). But I noticed that it didn’t influence the way it outputs the url for the loop instances – on the Blog page brackets still are encoded. (I placed the code globally – not conditioned them just for the single post). Plus, what’s even worse – when I click to share – it shows the slug without the brackets at all – which means AddThis is not able to see brackets and perceives it as a different url from the original.
The first post here:
http://agency.smartleads.eu/
it opens like http://agency.smartleads.eu/post/te%28st%29/
Though it shows ok as http://agency.smartleads.eu/post/te(st)/ if you try to open it directly

And another issue the ' symbol still refuses to be processed correctly. I need it as %27 and it just trims itself and gives http://agency.smartleads.eu/post/test%5C%272/ instead of http://agency.smartleads.eu/post/test%272/ (test2 post)

If I use urldecode, still trying to share shows the url without special characters at all. And although the issue with the brackets on the loop resolve itself, the ' symbol shows as it is – not encoded %27

So, why is it happening, why ' acts so inconsistently, why it can’t be just ordinary be encoded and gives spare codes? And how to make the url globally visible, so AddThis gets Permalink and sees the brackets version? Thanks a lot.