\’ backslash appears before apostrophe in comments

As a follow up, this also happens with double quotation marks ” as well; they show up as \” when the user saves their comment.

Nevermind. This was being caused by LaughingLizard’s ThreeStrikesSpam plugin. I’ve temporarily disabled it until I have time to fix it.

I think you simply will need to find the plugin and the last line will be something like:

return $text;

You should change it to something like:

return stripslashes($text);

Then again, I could be talking out of my ass.

Ok, well mine does almost the same thing, but seems to add an extra backslash every time I save the post. How the heck do I keep it from doing that, it’s frustrating me like you wouldn’t believe!

if you validate the XHTML of that page at https://www.w3c.org, you can see if it has any HTML errors that might be caused by a typo in the theme, comments, etc. I have had that happen before.. it added an extra “/>” too all of my posts, so I validated and then resubmitted showing the source, was able to see the line count and go back and find where the HTML in the php file had actually gotten chopped up.