Saving deletes comments and shortcode quotes
Saving head or footer code deletes HTML comments, shortcode quotes, and escaped characters.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 13 February 2024 · last reported 21 April 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners who add search tool markup inside HTML comments, or shortcodes with quoted attributes, report that saving the settings removes that content or strips the quote characters.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.