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When adding an ampersand (&) to the Text Widget title, the title breaks at the ampersand position (frontend). So: 'me, myself & I' becomes: 'me, myself ' The ampersand is being stored (correctly) as & in the DB.

What really gets me is the fact that the title is already broken in the output method of the widget (public function widget($args, $instance) { ... ) $instance['title'] is 'me, myself '

Further more, the title is correct / complete on the backend (widget edit page).

Any help would be much appreciated!!

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    Have you escaped esc_attr( $title ) before saving? – Samuel Elh Jul 11 '16 at 8:33
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    This used to be a bug in WP pre 3.0 version. I cannot reproduce it with the standard Text Widget in WP 4.5. So you may have a plugin installed that does unwise things with widget titles. – cjbj Jul 11 '16 at 8:38
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    Please add your solution as an answer and accept it. Else this question weill keep popping up as "unsolved". – cjbj Jul 11 '16 at 9:07
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SOLUTION: So, it turned out (of course) I myself was causing the problem (...) I am getting the widgets with the 'the_widget()' method and sending the instance params along as I go. The params are query-string-style parameters and are of course 'glued' together with ampersands. Now , I wasn't encoding the individual params so the query string was looking like this: '&title=me myself & I&url=...' This was (of course) messing things up!

Took me long enough to figure out, so I hope this helps others when running into similar issues!

Thanx for your help!

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