Custom Footer problem

[agapanthus]

Thanks for a brilliant theme - I've managed pretty much everything I needed to do from the amazing selection of customisation options.

One little niggle though: HTML in the custom footer fields acquires extra "\" escape characters in front of quotes in the HTML - and every time it's saved more appear. This breaks the HTML, of course. It's not disastrous because I've edited the text in the MySQL admin to get around the problem, but it would be good to have it fixed in a future release.

[sayontan]

I will take a look into this.

[sayontan]

Hi,
I checked the code again - I didn't see anything that would cause this kind of behavior. I tested this out with single as well as double quotes - can you indicate how to replicate the problem?

Thanks.
Sayontan.

[agapanthus]

Thanks for the reply.

When I put a link into the central footer field

e.g. <a href="mydomain.com">My domain</a>

It comes out as

<a href=\"mydomain.com\">My domain</a>

Every time I save it, more \\\\s appear. The automatically generated text in the left hand footer field is affected too, but nothing else that I've found so far.

[sayontan]

Do you have some kind of a plugin that adds additional security features? Maybe the plugin applies to your posts, but for some reason it is conflicting with admin settings as well? I have verified this at my end - the theme is doing nothing to inject the backslashes (plus it doesn't seem to be a problem for other folks either).

[agapanthus]

The only plugin that I'm currently running is get_posts.

By the way, the text on the right of the footer is fine - the problem seems to occur during saving.

[Friday]

Actually, I'm having this same exact problem, as well. If I leave all the defaults in the footer boxes, it's fine. But if I modify it, then when it saves it adds those same slashes \ and breaks the links. I just installed the theme today, and I have no plug-ins at all. It's a brand new site that I am coding and the only thing I have installed is basic WP 2.8 and this theme.

Otherwise, the theme is fantastic! I love the customization. Thanks for your work!

[sayontan]

Hmm... since I cannot replicate this problem and since I cannot detect a pattern here, here is a fix I can suggest. Open the file called "actions.php" in the functions folder. Look for a function there called suffusion_display_footer(). There you will see these lines:

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            <td class="cred-left"><?php echo $suf_footer_left; ?></td>
            <td class="cred-center"><?php echo $suf_footer_center; ?></td>


Change these to:

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            <td class="cred-left"><?php echo stripslashes($suf_footer_left); ?></td>
            <td class="cred-center"><?php echo stripslashes($suf_footer_center); ?></td>


Let me know if this works.

[agapanthus]

Thanks very much. I've tried that, and the problem's mostly fixed. The web page now looks fine and the links work, but the stray backslashes still appear in the custom footer editing boxes. They're successfully being stripped out on saving, but reappearing when the data is read, I think.

[agapanthus]

I've now upgraded to 2.6.0 and discovered that you've fixed this. Great support!!!

Many thanks