[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #25875: Category Names

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#25875: Category Names
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 Reporter:  MMDeveloper        |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Taxonomy           |     Version:
 Severity:  minor              |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  reporter-feedback  |     Focuses:
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Changes (by johnbillion):

 * keywords:   => reporter-feedback
 * type:  feature request => defect (bug)


Old description:

> You are able to submit a category name with a $. When you assign that
> category, it crashes the non-admin portion of the site. It is possible to
> unselect the category, but I didn't know this was the reason and I lost
> about 3 hours trying the find out what the issue was. I think Wordpress
> should either remove the $ or save it as \$. But since it will create a
> category slug, I think it should be removed.
>
> Issue on wp-includes/class-wp.php. Line:
>
> if ( preg_match("#^$match#", $request_match, $matches) ||
>                                                 preg_match("#^$match#",
> urldecode($request_match), $matches) ) {

New description:

 You are able to submit a category name with a $. When you assign that
 category, it crashes the non-admin portion of the site. It is possible to
 unselect the category, but I didn't know this was the reason and I lost
 about 3 hours trying the find out what the issue was. I think Wordpress
 should either remove the $ or save it as \$. But since it will create a
 category slug, I think it should be removed.

 Issue on wp-includes/class-wp.php. Line:

 {{{
 if ( preg_match("#^$match#", $request_match, $matches) ||
         preg_match("#^$match#", urldecode($request_match), $matches) ) {
 }}}

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Comment:

 I'm unable to reproduce a problem with a category named "$" on the front
 end. Can you explain what you mean by "When you assign that category, it
 crashes the non-admin portion of the site"? What exactly crashes? What
 errors do you see?

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 On a related note, it's not possible to create a category called "$" on
 the post editing screen if one doesn't already exist. It is possible to
 create it on the category management screen. The same applies to any
 category with a name that only contains characters that get stripped from
 the term slug. There may be an existing ticket for this.

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