This plugin adds “amp;” to “&” character. Please fix.

@ninjazhai I noticed you are using an Enfold child theme. Does it do this in the base theme? I tried 5 themes on my test 5.3.2 and cannot recreate this. I do not have Enfold as it is premium.

Bill

This issue has been reported here – https://github.com/Automattic/syntaxhighlighter/issues/98

And there may be another context in which this issue appears, reported here – https://github.com/Automattic/syntaxhighlighter/issues/98

Hi @billjojo, yes, I tried it with the Enfold base theme and I still see the issue. I’m using the new WordPress blocks because I find it easier to edit there.

Hi @alexsanford1, the thread is more than a year old. It looks like other users were able to find a hack. Can you include it in the official release soon?

I think many people will appreciate it, including me and your employer. Thank you very much.

Hi @alexsanford1, thanks for the link. Thanks also to @iamntz. I was able to fix it by adding the following code on functions.php of my child theme.

function ntz_fix_syntax_highlighter($content){
	$content = str_replace('&&', '&&', $content);
	$content = preg_replace('/&([^;]+;)/', '&$1', $content);

	return $content;
}

add_filter('content_save_pre', 'ntz_fix_syntax_highlighter');

Thank you. The issue is in our queue, but I cannot with say with certainty when it will be worked on. I’m glad you were able to find a workaround that fixes it for you ??