Match hyphens in @mentions#640
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The mention matcher used /@(\w+)/, where \w excludes hyphens, so a mention of a user whose slug contains a hyphen (e.g. @dominic-huxley) only captured the part before the hyphen. The truncated slug matched no user, so the mention rendered as plain text instead of a link. Allow hyphens in the captured username with /@([\w-]+)/. WordPress nicenames are limited to lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens, so this covers all valid slugs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Would have been nice to add a few tests, but there's no test harness available. |
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Problem
When a person is @mentioned in an H2 post, names whose user slug contains a hyphen (e.g.
@dominic-huxley) render as plain text instead of a link, while single-token names (e.g.@tomnowell) link correctly. This is a parsing bug, not a missing-account issue — the affected users have valid author archives.Cause
src/matchers.jsmatched mentions with/@(\w+)/.\wis[A-Za-z0-9_]and excludes-, so@dominic-huxleyonly captureddominic.Mention.jsthen looked up the slugdominic, found no user, andAuthorLinkreturns its children verbatim (no link) when there is no user.Fix
Allow hyphens in the captured username:
/@([\w-]+)/. WordPress user nicenames are limited to lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens, so this covers every valid slug.🤖 Generated with Claude Code