[Plugin: Testimonials Pro] Got random "\" appearing in my testimonials

Just for information, my character set is UTF-8 for my website.
I have checked in Testimonials Pro source files (in the plugin editor on WordPress’ admin board) and it also seems to be set to UTF-8 (unless there is another place where I would have to look)

Oraka please check I updated the plugin to replace the \ sign before ‘ or ” when you view the website. You can use str_replace for anywhere in the plugin, to fix this problem.

Thank you for your answer.

I have checked, uninstalled and reinstalled the latest version available here but as you can see on my link (https://www.boirekangen.org/?home_page=solution ) on the right side of the page, you can see a testimonial appearing (text is in french, but doesn’t matter).

There are backslashes before single and double quote marks (‘ and “). I have tried to look on the web and found a possible solution here https://fearlessflyer.com/2009/08/getting-rid-of-unwanted-backslashes-in-wordpress-form-input/ but this solution doesn’t work (copied the code in the function.php but still got the same result).

Regarding the “str_replace” function, I don’t understand what you mean.
If this topic has already been addressed somewhere else, can you forward me a link?

Thank you in advance, Fred

I am also having this issue. I just installed this plugin tonight, but have been unable to get the \ before a ‘ to go away. It’s like it’s trying to escape the ‘. Any luck fixing this issue?

I managed to get this fixed.

You will have to go to ‘edit plugins’ in the plugins section of WordPress , open the testimonials-pro plugin page.

in the section where you see the following code :
$TP_name = trim($TP_data->TP_name);
$TP_desc = trim($TP_data->TP_desc);

enter the following immediately after:

$TP_desc = stripslashes($TP_desc);

this will strip the slashes from the actual testimonial string.

Thank you 4tuneinteractive, that worked just as expected! (Why I didn’t think of that I don’t know hahaha)