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Can't get Résumé* to stop showing up on blog...

You can see at https://resumerelief.com/blog/archive.php?tag=rsum that something is turning my blog tag, Resume into Résumé, which the systems outputs as Résumé*.

I have repeatedly logged back into that blog post on Perch's system and typed and retyped the word Resume without the accents, but for whatever reason it keeps showing up as Résumé* wherever that tag is seen, so technically on every one of my blog pages down at the bottom.

It's been more than 24-hours since this has been occurring.

Can you please help or tell me what to do to fix this?

Melanie Lenci

Melanie Lenci 0 points

  • 7 years ago
Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
Perch Support

You need to make sure you are serving your pages as UTF-8.

https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-changing-encoding

Thanks, Rachel, but the quirk I mentioned above is not an isolated incident, just an example. You can also see at https://resumerelief.com/blog/archive.php?tag=online-reputation- that my tag, online reputation is not capitalized.

I had initially entered all my tags uncapitalized into the Perch Dashboard, then went back later and changed them to caps because I thought it looked better.

All of my other tags properly reflected the changes I made, except the online reputation tag is behaving similarly to the Resume tag - as it's simply not updating to the new spelling/capitalization I added in the dashboard, that's why I am wondering if this is more a Perch dashboard related quirk than an UTF-8 issue.

Should I raise this issue with a private ticket?

Thanks.

Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

Are you outputting the tagTitle or the tagSlug ?

You need to set your pages to serve as UTF8 also.

Thanks, Drew.

My tag_link.html code is:

<perch:before> <h3 style="color:#FF6600;">Other topics you can explore on my blog...</h3> <ul> </perch:before> <li1><a href="archive.php?tag=<perch:blog id="tagSlug" />" rel="tag"><perch:blog id="tagTitle" /> (<perch:blog id="qty" />)</a></li1> <perch:after></ul></perch:after>

Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

Case is preserved on the tagTitle (from first entry) but not on the tagSlug.

I made some progress, Drew and Rachel, yet encountered another issue.

I added UTF8 to my archive, post and index.php files and that solved the issue of Résumé showing up as Résumé*

What is baffling me now is that when I type in the word Resume into the Tags field on the Perch dashboard (without accents) it is showing up online with the accent marks, as you can see here https://resumerelief.com/blog/archive.php?tag=rsum.

I've emptied my caches, I completely deleted the blog post and reentered the content and still, only within the tag fields (not in the blog post content or title) when I type Resume it is outputting as Résumé.

I appreciate any help with this, as it's baffling me.

Thank you!

Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

If you type Résumé it will resolve to the tag name resume.

Thanks for continuing to try to help me, Drew, but I am still stuck (and starting to feel like a moron because I must be missing something here).

So, I log back into my Perch blog dashboard and did as you recommended above and yet saw no change.

I then tried another test.

My Tags field in my Mange Posts section of my dashboard for my post https://resumerelief.com/blog/post.php?s=2013-12-18-why-linkedin-your-resume-go-hand-in-hand now includes these 4 tags: LinkedIn*, Job Search*, Résumé*, Resume*

But as you can see through the link I sent you, the 4th tag I added, Resume*, is not showing up at all. It's outputting as only 3 tags, completely ignoring Resume*.

How can I rectify this?

Thanks!

Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

Résumé and Resume are the same.

Drew. I don't get it. They aren't the same. When the word is output with the accents it is not recognized through Google when people search for resume, which is the word my clients would be searching for.

Also, if the tags were working/outputting properly, or the way I am setting them up to within my tags, my archive page would be: https://resumerelief.com/blog/archive.php?tag=resume rather than what it is currently outputting to: https://resumerelief.com/blog/archive.php?tag=rsum

If this were any other word at all I wouldn't care, but since my business is resumes, this is kind of a big deal to me.

How can I get help with this?

Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

Tags are lowercase and ASCII in order to be URL safe.

Resume = resume

Résumé = resume

The fact that you're using rsum indicates that your server isn't capable of resolving é to e.

Thanks, Drew, but what I don't get is that when I even enter just the Resume* (no accents above the e's) in the Blog's dashboard Tag field , it's still outputting as Résumé (with the accents above the e's), as seen at https://resumerelief.com/blog/archive.php?tag=rsum

What can explain that?

Not sure if you're asleep, but was hoping to get a response to my question above.

I know I'm a pain, but I do really appreciate your help because my blog is finally ready to launch and this is the last item I'm trying to resolve before launching.

Thanks!

Melanie,

Do you have access to the database? Check the perch2_blog_tags table and edit the title of the "Résumé" tag to "Resume".

When you first added the "Résumé" tag on a post, a tag with title "Résumé" and slug "resume" was created in the database. As Drew explained earlier your posts tagged with "Resume" will have the same slug (ascii URL safe version) as "Résumé". When the post is saved, the tags slugs are compared with the existing ones to prevent duplicates, which in your case are both the same.

You are my hero, Andres!!

Going into my hosting cpanel and deleting the Résumé entry worked perfectly.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!