Extra characters appear in product links.

Hi @ibrahimpak

Thank you for reaching out!

I have tried to reproduce the issue on my test website, but was unable to. Here is a screenshot as a reference: https://d.pr/i/H7BoY4

In order for us to get a better understanding of your site setup, could you please share a copy of your website’s System Status Report?

You can get it by navigating to the WooCommerce / Status section of your site. Once there, click on the Get system report button and then copy it by clicking on the Copy for support button. Then paste it here in a comment.

Hi @nawaz0705

My status report and some more info, only titles with non-English characters have this problem.

I also re-added a product with non-English characters and it comes up a clean link.

Do I need to refresh all connections? What do you recommend?

Note: This is a migration site and there are too many items to delete. So I want to clean the links for fresh start.

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Hi @ibrahimpak

Thanks for sharing the system status report.

I also replicated this on my test site and produced the same result as Rafy.

WC Database Version: 6.5.1

Can you please try to update your database to the latest version by following our guide here?

Then, please follow the below steps to perform a full conflict test and see if that works.

• Temporarily switch your theme to Storefront
• Disable all plugins except for WooCommerce
• Repeat the action that is causing the problem

If you’re not seeing the same problem after completing the conflict test, then you know the problem was with the plugins and/or theme you deactivated. To figure out which plugin is causing the problem, reactivate your other plugins one by one, testing after each, until you find the one causing conflict. You can find a more detailed explanation on how to do a conflict test here.

Before you start

• First, please make sure you have a good backup in place of your full site and database. Most hosting companies have this included in the subscription, but you could also consider using a service like Jetpack. If something goes wrong, it’s nice to know that you can restore your site.
• Second, I would suggest installing a plugin called Health Check & Troubleshooting. This is a plugin developed by the WordPress community and it allows you to disable plugins without affecting your current site visitors.

You can make use of a staging/test site to proceed with the conflict test recommended above.

If your host doesn’t offer that option, we recommend WP Staging for quickly spinning up a new test site.

Let us know the result of the test.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by xue28 (woo-hc).

This issue can be seen in the product names in my database. Not available on some products and not on newly added products. I need to rewrite all the product names into the database. Do you have a recommendation?

Product names on db: https://prnt.sc/CdvItEKePl3N

Hello,

I need to rewrite all the product names into the database. Do you have a recommendation?

You can export all your product using the default importer/exporter feature under WP Dashboard > Products > Export. Please create a copy of this file as a backup of your products.

Then you can download the file generated, and edit the product names. Once you are done, you can impórt the file back under WP Dashboard > Products > Import and you will be able to override the products.

Let us know if that worked for you ??

Thank you for your helpful suggestions.

First I will delete the product names containing % from the database, UPDATEwp_postsSETpost_name= '' WHEREwp_posts.post_nameREGEXP '%' then I will update the products and the products will be renamed and probably the names will be clean.

Hi there @ibrahimpak!

You do not need to replace the characters in the database. This is expected behavior when special characters are used in the URL.

When special characters are used, the browser automatically converts the URL into URL-encoded form. So for example:

https://sitename.com/urun/ews-akri%cc%87li%cc%87k-yesi%cc%87l-jolly-suzgec/

is the URL encoded version for:

https://sitename.com/urun/ews-akri?li?k-yesi?l-jolly-suzgec/

You can try using a tool like https://www.urldecoder.org to check that.

If you want your product permalinks to be cleaner, you could instead try modifying the permalinks to remove any special characters like i?.

I hope this helps! ??