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THE MOLITOR on "Menus not working with Ampersand"

THE MOLITOR — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:03:13 +0000

You bet!

howardsays on "Menus not working with Ampersand"

howardsays — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:27:37 +0000

Hi Chris,

That totally worked! Thank you!

Cheers,
Howard

THE MOLITOR on "Menus not working with Ampersand"

THE MOLITOR — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:18:37 +0000

Hi there,

Not all characters are supported for the menu items (for example: "/" and "?"). Here's how you can make them work...

Open up "header.php" and locate the following on line 149...

$titleId = str_replace(" ", "-", $title);

...and change it to this...

$titleId = str_replace(array(':', 'é', '/', '*',' ','?','&'), "-", $title);

Notice I've added array(':', 'é', '/', '*','','?','&'), which contains a bunch of characters. Just add characters to this array to add support for additional items. Example: array(':', 'é', '/', '*',' ','?','&','...') adds support for ...

Let me know if that helps.

Best,

Chris

howardsays on "Menus not working with Ampersand"

howardsays — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 07:59:50 +0000

Hi,

I have several pages in the menu. the one with an ampersand in the name doesn't work. For example, when loading the site for the first time, I am able to click on the page "Bride & Groom" (url shows "http://www.lisa-howard.com/?menu=bride-&-groom") and then am able to navigate to any other page. However, if I am on any other page, when I try to click back to "Bride & Groom", the page doesn't load. For example, while on the gallery page, the url shows "/?menu=gallery#bride-&-groom", which is wrong. I am expecting the url to be "/?menu=bride-&-groom", which would get me back to the front page. When I remove the ampersand from the navigation label, the link works properly. I also tried using &, but wordpress overwrites the character code and inserts the ampersand so the menu is still broken.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Howard