Tried using HTML entities as separators, but doesn’t work

Hello Craig

In your short code, can you remove the white spaces between & # and 013?
The forum doesn’t allow to add this code in the comments, so can’t post the exact code. So if you remove this spaces in your WP app it should work fine!

Hi Olivier,

Thanks for your reply. The shortcode I used has the spaces removed, but unfortunately it still doesn’t work. I also tried adding the entity in the plugin UI, but when saving, the entity disappears.

I just added the spaces here as even when wrapping the shortcode in a code wrapper, it doesn’t display properly.

Craig

Ok, clear!
If you would just enter a regular br, what happens?

And can you give some info on the WP version, theme..?

I have tried a regular br, and it cuts off some of the text (see screen grab)

Screen Grab

I’m using WP 6.0 and Beaver Builder/Beaver Builder Theme (child)

I haven′t tried it on WP6 nor Beaver, but my guess it might be cause due Beaver Builder.

Does Beaver have an option to insert plain text instead of a visual text box? If so can you enter the code in the plain text instead of the visual text editor? This is often an issue on Elementor (another builder).

You could also try to use &#10 or &#13 instead of &#010 / &#013

The Beaver Builder module I am using is a Post Grid module which has the ability to add a custom layout with HTML (which is what I am using and is shown in the screen grab in my previous post).

Unfortunately, the &#10 or &#13 didn’t work.

I will get in touch with Beaver Builder support and see if they can shed some light of the issue from their end.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Craig.

After further investigation, and discussion with the BB support team, it doesn’t appear to be anything to do with Beaver Builder. It was tested on a non BB site and the result was the same.

I tried playing around with the category title and slug, and here is what I found:-

Tried “writing for the car” – no “r”
Tried “writing for the near” – no “r”
Tried “writing for the fear” – no “r”
Tried “writing for the butter” – no r
Tried “writing for the eat” – works fine
Tried “writing for the cat” – works fine

So it seems to be the letter R at the end that is being removed, but if the word does not end in an R, it seems to be fine.

https://share.cleanshot.com/HoAs0xrEOyCpNOsgEkuT

Replacing return trim( $spc_output, $Separator ); with the following did the trick.
return is_numeric( $pos = strrpos( $spc_output, $Separator) ) ? substr_replace( $spc_output, '', $pos, strlen( $Separator ) ) : $spc_output;

Hi Craig, Simon,

That’s the first time I’ve seen this error. Happy to see Simon found a work around, could you give it a go?

Will see if I can find some time to update the code, although this might take some time.

Tanks Simon!

Awesome work from Simon (and Jamie) from the Beaver Builder support team.

I can confirm that by making the change above in the category.php file, everything is working as it should.

Thank you Simon, Jamie and Olivier.