Open poschi3 opened 2 weeks ago
It's the Gutenberg editor. I have the beginnings of a fix in the linked PR but it needs more work. Until then, if you use the editor in "code" mode, that seems to help. Maybe that's a temporary workaround for you.
I'm confident now that it's a bug in WordPress (see https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/20490) and I'm not sure I can or should fix it on the Publisher side. Because it may break again if WordPress fixes the bug eventually. However the timeline is unclear because the bug exists since early 2020 🤷♂️
Expected behavior
If I add a podcast and set a big title with a
&
I get it double escaped in some places (e.g. podcast title, player, feed):Actual behavior
Right escaping on every location
More information
I also have strange behavior I'm not able to explain. If I change a title after initial set it gets sometimes copied to other locations or on rendering is taken from different? I made a short video to show what the strange behavior is:
podlove-amp.webm
System information (see
Podlove > Support
menu)I tested it local in docker and on my production instnace Local:
Production: