Problem with custom post META

Anonymous

#207606

Hi,

I made a form to be able to search in META for a custom post with a select list.
Some of the META I select give no result but if I make a search in the text field the result display the result I was supposed to find inside the meta.
NB: I have installed Relevanssi to be able to search into the meta from the text search field.

If it’s not clear (my english ain’t so good), here an example:

Go to: https://clubgravelle.com/membres/

Try to search into the list “Nom de l’entreprise” : A&C consulting
You’ll get no result.
Now search into “Nom du Membre” (plain text): Richomme
As you can see the result contain “A&C consulting”.

I was thinking that it can be a problem with the “&” but same thing with others without special characters like “ASCOTEPE” (but if you search with “Nom du Membre” you’ll find it).

Anonymous

#207607

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Trevor

#207617

The problem with ASCOTEPE is that the field entry in the post also has a space at the end of it.

Are they the only two with issues, as the ‘&’ may indeed be a problem.

Anonymous

#207621

Trevor,

is there a way to strip the spaces at the end of the metas? Because it seems my client added space on some and this can be done in the future even I ask here not to add space.

The “&” doesn’t work but the “?” yes. Is there a way to fix that ?

Thank you.

Trevor

#207625

You could add some validation using PHP in the child theme’s functions.php file hooked in to the WordPress save_post() function (so it runs when a post is saved and trims any spaces off), but you would need to code this yourself.

Actually, I think ACF has a way to do this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31909099/remove-spaces-from-advanced-custom-field-data-on-save-using-act-save-post

As to the ampersand, I will refer this to Ross, our plugin developer, for his input.

Anonymous

#207632

Thanks for the tips, I will try to find a way to strip spaces.
Waiting for your return about the “&”.
Thank you

Anonymous

#207748

Hi Trevor,

Did you get an answer for this problem ?
I need to publish my work asap.

Thank you.

Trevor

#207750

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Ross Moderator

#207829

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Anonymous

#207863

Thank you for your help.
I need to ask why to the dev who made the theme am using if that’s the cause of the problem.

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