prothall

I’ve been messing around with this for a while now and I have figured out that having an & or # sign in the text of a form causes the failure in my original post.

For well over a year this form worked perfectly and I had no trouble editing it. At some point an update must have changed something and the failures started. I removed all & and # from the form and it saves my edits without a problem.

I have another page where all I have are links to YouTube videos. I was having the same issue there as with the form. I took the & out of the text of one line and it started working fine.

I also discovered one other thing that causes this error. It has to do with the YouTube links for on the page described in the last paragraph.

The following are both valid links to a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKfeQkCJjio
and
https://youtu.be/CKfeQkCJjio

If I put the first url in as the link the page will not save and I’m thrown back to my homepage. If I use the second url the page saves and everything works fine.

Does anyone have any idea why this would have started happening?

Thanks for any insight you can provide.

Takayuki Miyoshi: I disabled the two BestWebSoft plugins. It had no affect.

davmerit: I re saved the Options-Permalink.php file in WP Admin. No joy with that change either.

Thank you both for responding! I really appreciate it. It you have any other ideas, I ready to try anything. I confess, I’m about to burn the site to the ground, remove WordPress and re-install, then start putting everything back up without copying and pasting anything to avoid reintroducing the problem.

Thanks again

Advanced Custom Fields
Advanced Custom Fields: Date and Time Picker
Advanced iFrame
Advanced uploader
Black Studio TinyMCE Widget
Captcha by BestWebSoft
Contact Form 7
Contact Form by BestWebSoft
Contact Form DB
HTML Javascript Adder
Increase Upload Max Filesize
Jetpack by WordPress.com (not active)
Really Simple CAPTCHA
Redirection
Redux Framework
YouTube Advanced by Embed Plus
YouTube Channel

Some additional information.

When I manually installed 4.2.3 I deleted all the folders except wp-content and some .htaccess files. Then uploaded 4.2.3 (which has since been upgraded to 4.4.4. I disabled all plugins and renamed the plugins folder (as advised on one of the threads because disabling them doesn’t always really work).

The problem still remains with no plugins available. What I have found now is the issue is related to saving links. I can create and save a page without error. I can put text on the page and save without error. When I associate a link (any link) with text on the page, I am thrown into the sequence of events outlined in my original post. Please someone help with this. If I have posted in the wrong place or done something else wrong that is cause for no one offering any help on this, please let me know so I can address that.

buzztone,

thanks, i looked at that but in my case i have say 6 email addresses but if the user selects a certain option on the form one of those addresses needs to be removed. what i need is to have two strings, one with 6 addresses and one with 5 addresses then be able to choose one based on the users input in a particular field.

i’m beginning to think i can’t do it using this product without getting into a lot of coding?

thanks again