bad page suffix in URL

edit the post/page in the dashboard
right above edit screen you can edit the permalink
for example, the one above should be
about-your-financial-freedom

I’m getting this issue and it’s not caused by the permalink.

My page page contains the following link:
<a href="https://imedicinereview.com/online-qa1500-by-mail?">.

When you click the link, you get “page not found” although the URL in the address bar appears correctly as:
https://imedicinereview.com/online-qa1500-by-mail.

However, when you cut and paste the URL from the address bar into Notepad,
you see this:
https://imedicinereview.com/online-qa1500-by-mail%E2%80%8E.

I can’t seem to fix this. Never saw it before. Has anybody else seen it and diagnosed the cause?

Never mind. The invisible character was lodged in the very link I posted above (although I think it was stripped out when I posted).

I edited out the character in WP– it was detectable by using arrow keys to go over it (the cursor paused at the invisible character)– and everything is hunky-dory.

Now I want my 20 minutes back.

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Hi kstadden,

I’m wondering if you can help me – I have exactly the same issue as you, but I cannot find any invisible characters in my URL:

<form action=”https://www.adamsherman.com.au/postureperfection/thankyou&#8221; method=”post”>

I have changed the permalink and everything. Any advice?

Thans!

MeltingDog,

In what you posted there are no hidden characters that I can detect. Try copying and pasting from your post above. If your issue is being caused by something else, I’m stumped. Good luck, and post here when you find a fix.

kstadden

OK all – I have fixed the similar issue I had.

It was one of the fields in my form – the one called ‘name’. This was processed as $name which might be a reserved php variable. I changed this to $customer and it works. Other then that I cannot explain why that would make any difference…