Vanishing dollar sign

This is most likely something to do with WordPress core. I imagine it’s thinking you are wanting to use a form of jQuery, which is not allowed in content areas.

jQuery typically begins like:

$.(....);

And you are trying to insert:

$..

See how close they are?

We are going to have to dig more deeply to see how we can prevent WordPress from removing that code.

thanks, josh. if it’s a core wordpress issue, i wonder why a lot more people aren’t complaining about it. money is always a hot topic, and surely wp’ers in canada, australia, nz and the us would have noticed by now that their dollar signs (plus following two figures) keep disappearing. anyway, i’m a wp novice so maybe this is a known issue. for now, i’ll use ascii in text mode only wherever dollars are involved.

Lol.. funny ??

What is the exact syntax you are entering? Was I correct in my assumption above?

Can you show me a complete example of what code you would like to use? I’ll see if I can get it to work.

it’s really simple: i’m setting up a website for a nonprofit and just want to post suggested donation amounts, or tell people what they would get for a $100 donation for example. but every time i type a dollar sign in wp edit and hit “update” the dollar sign disappears and takes the following two digits with it.

does that make sense.

Nope.. not at all.

I just tested.. and didn’t have any issues.

We are going to need to temporarily deactivate ALL of your plugins. We need to see if it’s a plugin code issue.

Once you deactivate them all, manually refresh your browser cache… go back to that page and see if you can get the dollar sign to save.

Have you made any progress with my suggestions above?

Hi Josh,

I think I narrowed it down to the Insert PHP plugin, which I use to echo the same content in different locations. The problem seems to be there. A fairly simple workaround is to leave a space between the dollar sign and the amount. I’m waiting to hear back from the Insert PHP plugin developer.

Thanks for your help. I believe we can consider this thread closed.

Just marked this topic as resolved.

Thank you.
Please let me know if you don’t receive a response; or are unable to make any progress.

I’ll be happy to take a look for you.

Talk to you soon ??

I’d like to share my findings, though it might already be resolved.

This is caused by the preg_replace function inside Insert PHP plugin’s code, which is discussed here in details: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18993863/preg-replace-causing-dollar-signs-get-removed .

Thus to fix it, you need to manually escape those $ followed by digits, by adding:

$will_bontrager_replacement = preg_replace('/\$(\d)/', '\\\$$1', $will_bontrager_replacement);

above the line :

$will_bontrager_content = preg_replace("/$will_bontrager_search/",$will_bontrager_replacement,$will_bontrager_content,1);

@fallmonkey,
Thanks for the additional information.

Please post that on their forum as well, if you haven’t already.

Thanks.