Hyphens are causing a blank result

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I'm having issues with hyphens in my slugs from a tutorial I'm trying to go through... http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/theme-development/create-a-quicksand-portfolio-with-wordpress/ and I'm having a problem when my client uses hyphens in the category. The category is blank when the client puts in a hyphen for some reason. Otherwise everything else is working perfectly!

Has anyone else ran into this problem? I'm thinking its a js problem but am uncertain as I am not receiving any console errors at all. So I'm not for sure how to debug.

It looks as if others are having the same issue. here is a link. http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/theme-development/create-a-quicksand-portfolio-with-wordpress/#comment-684932160 — bryanlewis, May 13 '13 at 01:53
I do not know if it will help you , But I had some problems with similar JS scripts and non-english characters which I resolved by applying `htmlenteties()` on all produced links. — Obmerk Kronen, May 13 '13 at 02:29
Actually , now that I think of it (was a long time ago ) I think it was `rawurldecode()` and if my memory is not wrong, it was applied on the ID ( or class ) of the div. but you can try any of the related functions like `urldecode()` `urlencode()`, `htmlenteties()` etc and try to apply it to any produced link one by one until you find the culprit. again, not sure the problem is the same , it´s just rings a bell.. — Obmerk Kronen, May 13 '13 at 02:51
if you can't get that to work, and need that type of filtering functionality, see another great tutorial that does the same thing here: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/creating-a-filterable-portfolio-with-jquery/ — carrabino, May 14 '13 at 12:08

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 09 '14 at 16:23

why not use term_id with any desired prefix: $term->term_id. In this case You will have unique identifier and less possibility to breake something.

final version could be:

$term_list .= '<li><a href="javascript:;" class="sort_by_term_'. $term->term_id .'">' . $term->name . '</a></li>';

will produce something like this:

<li><a href="javascript:;" class="sort_by_term_1234568">some long name with more words</a></li>

Info: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_term_by

Hyphens are causing a blank result

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