diff --git a/modules/templates/helper.go b/modules/templates/helper.go
index 0997239a5..245206474 100644
--- a/modules/templates/helper.go
+++ b/modules/templates/helper.go
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ func NewFuncMap() template.FuncMap {
 		"SafeHTML":     SafeHTML,
 		"HTMLFormat":   HTMLFormat,
 		"HTMLEscape":   HTMLEscape,
-		"QueryEscape":  url.QueryEscape,
+		"QueryEscape":  QueryEscape,
 		"JSEscape":     JSEscapeSafe,
 		"SanitizeHTML": SanitizeHTML,
 		"URLJoin":      util.URLJoin,
@@ -226,6 +226,10 @@ func JSEscapeSafe(s string) template.HTML {
 	return template.HTML(template.JSEscapeString(s))
 }
 
+func QueryEscape(s string) template.URL {
+	return template.URL(url.QueryEscape(s))
+}
+
 // DotEscape wraps a dots in names with ZWJ [U+200D] in order to prevent autolinkers from detecting these as urls
 func DotEscape(raw string) string {
 	return strings.ReplaceAll(raw, ".", "\u200d.\u200d")