Ampersand is changed to HTML code

Hi!

This is not a problem with Polylang but with the plugin which sends emails.

If you de-activate Polylang and put an & in General Settings->Site title, and then look in your DB in wp_options->blogname you will see that your & is encoded as &

Thanks for the quick reply.

I thought that, since I don’t have plugin that sends mail, but it is enfold theme contact form, I should ask them. I see that this is how & is translated to HTML, but except Polylang translations of site title which appears in From field in emails, everywhere else is OK.

Hi Chouby,

Enfold uses wp_mail or mail to send the messages, the theme just sends the data and the server does the sending. This issue appeared right after I installed Polylang – as a string and string translations of Site title in Polylang there is ampersand code which also appear in a sender field. I tried to enter again both plain ampersand and HTML code, but nothing helped.

Do you have any idea about this?

Thanks!

Did you make the test I suggest?

De-activate Polylang put an & in your blog name in General settings, then see how it looks in DB and in your e-mail.

Hello,

Thanks for reply.
Sorry for duplicate topic, it looked to me that previous topic was closed.

I tried that. HTML code for ampersand was already in site title before Polylang installation, so I tried removing it, but, unfortunately nothing helped.

I would like to share this if someone have a same issue: adding

add_filter( ‘wp_mail_from_name’, ‘my_mail_from_name’ );
function my_mail_from_name( $name )
{
return “FROM FIELD”;
}

to functions.php solved problem.

Thanks for help.

Regards,

Ivan