<Angered Brackets /> » Wordpress http://www.angeredbrackets.com Angle brackets get angry too! >:-] Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:40:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 First rant. Far sooner than expected http://www.angeredbrackets.com/2009/05/first-rant-far-sooner-than-expected/ http://www.angeredbrackets.com/2009/05/first-rant-far-sooner-than-expected/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 00:52:08 +0000 Ethan http://www.angeredbrackets.com/wordpress/?p=4 Well, I just set up my wordpress based blog (as you can tell by reading it….), and went directly on to setting the blog’s title and subtitle. I got them to show up the way I wanted, but not without some frustration along the way.
See, it seems like wordpress sanitizes the input it receives, and deleted all the text I put between the angle brackets in the title. I didn’t foresee this happening, but was actually pleased when it did. However, in effect, the title was all but deleted. Fine, fair enough. I learned my lesson. So I changed the title from using explicit < and >, to using their HTML equivalents, good ol’ &lt; and &gt;.
Saving that did the job. The title was now displayed with the angle brackets, the way you now see it.
The problem? The input field, where I just typed up &lt;Angered Brackets /&gt;, now contained the parsed value of <Angered Brackets /> – The value I originally entered, and ended up losing.
So the next time I go about making a change to the blog settings, I will have to remember to replace those two brackets with their HTML counterparts, or risk losing the title.

Total time running this blog: 5 minutes.
Level of bracket anger: >>:-\

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