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  • October 4, 2015 at 1:27 pm #513313
    Simijonovic

    Hi,

    My website title, entered in General Settings of WordPress, contains ampersand – &. This is not problem in browser, since it is rendered as an simple &, but in sent autoresponder emails within sender/ from field there is this code & amp ; instead of an &. Also when I check website title string translation in Polylang, “&” is replaced with “& amp ;”, in both languages and in original string.

    This is happening weather I enter html codes for ampersand or actual & in site title.

    Regards

    October 4, 2015 at 10:47 pm #513420
    Basilis

    Hi Simijonovic!

    That is how the ambersand is been translated, to HTML! We can not do much in that case and it is not an Enfold issue, more of a WordPress / HTML! Have you tried for a solution to WP forums?

    Regards,
    Basilis

    October 5, 2015 at 12:44 am #513435
    Simijonovic

    Hello Basiliis!

    Yes, I tried on WP forums, and answer was that this is issue “with the plugin which sends emails”. So, I thought that, since I don’t have plugin that sends mail, but it is enfold contact form, maybe this is right place. I see that this is how & is translated to HTML, but except email From field everywhere else is OK.

    October 5, 2015 at 1:01 pm #513718
    Josue

    Hi!

    Enfold uses wp_mail or mail to send the messages, the theme just sends the data and the server does the sending. That being said, have you tried putting & am; instead of & in General Options?

    Best regards,
    Josue

    October 5, 2015 at 8:24 pm #514036
    Simijonovic

    Hello!

    Yes, Josue, I did. At first that resolved problem. But, after Polylang installation (not sure if this is exact reason, but as a string and string translations of Site title in Polylang there is ampersand code) issue reappeared. I tried to enter again both plain ampersand and HTML code, but nothing helped.

    Knowing from some previous post that I found that you recommend WPML, I first addressed to Polylang creator, and he replied that this is a problem with the plugin which sends emails. Than I posted my question here because I had same problem before I installed Polylang.

    Maybe I could change value for Site title in HTML or from HTML, but I don’t know where to look for it. Maybe it is stored in database, or some file. (Now I am just throwing ideas because I really don’t know much about coding).

    Thanks!

    October 5, 2015 at 9:51 pm #514060
    Josue

    Hey!

    Try adding this at the very end of your theme / child theme functions.php file:

    add_action('wp_title', function() {
   return "Title & here*;	
});

    Cheers!
    Josue

    October 6, 2015 at 2:30 pm #514381
    Simijonovic

    Hi Josue,

    This returns error page:

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in enfold-child/functions.php on line 20

    line 20: add_action(‘wp_title’, function() {

    Regards,

    Ivan

    October 6, 2015 at 2:49 pm #514384
    Yigit

    Hey!

    Please change the code to following one 

    add_action('wp_title', function() {
   return "Title & here*";	
});

    Cheers!
    Yigit

    October 6, 2015 at 3:22 pm #514416
    Simijonovic

    :-)

    Quickest answer ever! Thank you!

    This resolve syntax error, but the problem with sender field in autoresponder emails remains: there is still & amp ; in From field.

    I wasn’t sure if should I replace Title & here with real title, and should I type HTML code for ampersand or & (because on my mobile its HTML, but in chrome is &) so I tried all options. But whatever I put between quotation marks the result is the same.

    Cheers!

    Ivan

    October 6, 2015 at 5:57 pm #514649
    Simijonovic

    Hi,

    Just to share this. Adding

    add_filter( ‘wp_mail_from_name’, ‘my_mail_from_name’ );
    function my_mail_from_name( $name )
    {
    return “YOUR FROM FIELD WITH AMPERSAND”;
    }

    to functions.php solved problem.

    Thanks for help.

    Regards,
    Ivan

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