Numeric entities displaying on home page/excerpts

Sorry – double post – and the entities aren’t displaying here. Please see the post excerpts on the homepage to see what I mean: https://www.beatculture.net

Thanks

Weird one this, it’s like it’s not converting html symbols into text-alternatives. Some of the codes like ‘–’ should be converted to a ‘-‘ on the site, but they’re not.

I’m stumped on this one, but you could maybe hunt through the code to find where they are coming from and try manually adding in their html equivalent in your template files.

Yeah – I can’t understand why the full posts are displaying them properly, but the excerpts are not. I have no idea where this is being set either.

If I don’t get this fixed by Wednesday evening, I’m in trouble!

Does your theme’s index.php template file use <?php the_excerpt();?>?

It doesn’t feature that exact line, but does feature:

$excerpt = get_the_excerpt();

and

<p><?php echo limit(150, $excerpt); ?></p>

Both of those are within this chunk of code:

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This might be a dumb question… Is “limit” a custom function in your theme’s functions.php file?

Hmmm… I just found this in functions.php:

// LImit caracters
function limit($nb,$var) {
    $max= $nb;
     if(strlen($var)>=$max)
     {
       $var    = substr($var,0,$max);
       $espace = strrpos($var," ");
       $var    = substr($var,0,$espace)."...";
	   $var    = htmlspecialchars($var);
     }
    return $var ;
}

Any use?

(thank you for everyone’s help so far – I’m very grateful)

Try removing the $var = htmlspecialchars($var); line.

Brilliant – thank you! Removing that line seems to have fixed things.

Thanks everyone for trying to help as well.

Great. I realized afterwards that limit() might be used in other places on your theme, which need special chars converted (like meta description or whatever). I suppose a safer way would be leaving limit() intact, and creating an identical function without the offending line (call it limit2 or whatever).

Then instead of <p><?php echo limit(150, $excerpt); ?></p> you would use <p><?php echo limit2(150, $excerpt); ?></p>, while other areas of your theme will still use the original with its special char conversion.