“&” are displayed as “&”

Update:
I realized I could run the post titles through the _.unescape() function (edit the template). Then the titles will be displayed correctly.

Now I just need to figure out how I can run the unescaping for the filter values.

Hi @microcoder ,

Can you please specify what and where you’re using this ?
I’ve tried this on both posts and page and the & are rendering properly for me.

Thanks for the response @digamberpradhan ,

I did a fresh install with the standard theme to see if I got the same problem. I inserted a string “Foo & foo” into $formatted_data in the hook cm_typesense_data_before_entry and it rendered properly.

I did some more investigation and found out that when I’m using get_the_terms() or get_the_title() the returning string is encoded.?

Because of that, I tried to run the wp_specialchars_decode() function on my resulting values, like:

$formatted_data['custom_value'] = wp_specialchars_decode(get_the_title($d));

and then it works (proper rendering). Yay!

Thanks for helping me out.

Due to my previous reply I checked how this is handled in the plugin and found this:

/includes/Main/TypesenseAPI.php:167

$category_names[] = html_entity_decode( $category->name );

That confirms my previous reply and is the reason why it renders properly for the default category data ($formatted_data[‘category’]).

Case closed.

Glad to hear you were able to figure things out.
Cheers.