Skip Navigation

Home › Support › English Support › [Escalated to WPML Developers team] Configure & (ampersand) escaping for translated URL attribute (custom XML config)

[Escalated to WPML Developers team] Configure & (ampersand) escaping for translated URL attribute (custom XML config)

This is the technical support forum for WPML - the multilingual WordPress plugin.

Everyone can read, but only WPML clients can post here. WPML team is replying on the forum 6 days per week, 22 hours per day.

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
- 8:00 – 12:00 8:00 – 12:00 8:00 – 12:00 8:00 – 12:00 8:00 – 12:00 -
- 13:00 – 17:00 13:00 – 17:00 13:00 – 17:00 13:00 – 17:00 13:00 – 17:00 -

Supporter timezone: Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh (GMT+07:00)

Tagged: ,

This topic contains 0 replies, has 1 voice.

Last updated by olgaS-13 20 hours, 4 minutes ago.

Assisted by: Long Nguyen.

Author Posts
September 30, 2024 at 7:26 am #16234582

olgaS-13

Background of the issue:
I need to configure the link attribute of DiviFlash Image Carousel Items. To achieve this, I added the following snippet to my custom XML configuration:

difl_imagecarouselitem

link_option_url

This works, I offered the link attributes for translation. I had to switch to ATE V2 because of this issue: https://wpml.org/errata/advanced-translation-editor-ate-removes-ampersand-from-urls/

Symptoms:
If the translation has a "&" character in it (which it has), the & is replaced with & But then the link does not work anymore.

e. g.:
hidden link

Questions:
How can I prevent the & character from being replaced with & in translated URLs?
Is there a way to configure WPML to handle & characters correctly in translated URLs?