Autolink not recognizing apostrophe

There doesn’t seem to be anyone moderating this particular forum, but just in case, I should add that Vladimir Prelovac’s SEO Smart Links plugin initially had the same issue.

Words with apostrophes (e.g., “O’Hara”) and words begun or ending with a “special character” (e.g., “érik” or “René” – both “e”s have an acute accent) would be bypassed by the auto-linker.

A more recent version of the plugin (as in, about 5 years ago or so) solved both problems. (Something to do with “stripslashes”??)

If anyone knows how that can be accomplished with the SEO Auto-Linker plugin, please post a reply here.

Thank you.

Hi @altfgcom, sorry for the late reply. WordPress doesn’t sent notices of new topics on the forums. I was swamped with work, so didn’t check these for a long, long time.

I think your problem is solved in version 1.3. Please download the latest release and check if you still have this error. This release is all about special character support.

Thank you for the reply, @arjanolsder.

Unfortunately, version 1.3 broke the site!

Everything within the *post itself* disappears. We checked the code view, but couldn’t find any error messages. Just a small blank space where the text should be.

It should be noted that the header, post title, sidebar, comments, tags, footer all remain in place. The text and its illustrations/images are the only elements that vanish.

We tried testing one single auto-link url – a very simple keyword. It didn’t work. The text disappeared again.

Any ideas as to what could be wrong and how it can be fixed? Else, is there a way for us to downgrade to the previous version, which was working just fine except for the apostrophe issue?

Any assistance would be *much appreciated*, as, much to our unhappiness, we’ve had to deactivate the plugin. (If you visit the site you may not be able to notice it because we use a cache plugin; so the auto-links should still be there in most posts.)

We did a rollback to 1.2 and are working on a solution.

Hi, arjanolsder.
Previously working with SEO Auto Links, now installed WPA SEO Auto Links, deactivated original plugin but current version of plugin is not showing the database of SEO Auto Links, please advice.

@mpaop, are you sure you didn’t remove the plugin? When migrating to ours, we advice not to remove the old plugin to avoid loss of data. Just deactivating should be enough.