Ridding Blog of Bad Apostrophes

  • WPChina

    (@wordpresschina)


    19 years ago

    Ok, when I write a Post and the title looks like this:

    Jack’s Dog Is Sitting Here

    the apostrophe gets messy sometimes on other websites when syndicating my content. I need it instead to look like this:

    Jack’s Dog Is Sitting Here

    The difference is that the first apostrophe uses “magic quotes” and the seocnd is just standard. How can I get WP to always use standard? This is very frustrating.

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  • Thread Starter WPChina

    (@wordpresschina)

    Sorry, but does anyone have ideas on what needs to change in WP to rid posts of “magic quotes”? I have searched this forum and there doesn’t seem much hope from the past, so I am hoping someone has a fix for the future. ??

    Thread Starter WPChina

    (@wordpresschina)

    Sorry, but doesn’t anyone have a solution to this? I am 100% certain just about every WP user has this problem, right?

    Thread Starter WPChina

    (@wordpresschina)

    Ahhh… I am really going out of my mind!

    These apostrophes and quotes need to stop! I just installed wp-email, and the bad quotes are showing up in that too! For example, see this sentence:

    New York’s main avenue is called “The Street of Dreams”.

    Ahhh! It should instead should be output like this:
    New York’s main avenue is called “The Street of Dreams”.

    However, when in the RSS feeds or when the RSS is displayed on OTHER people’s websites, then this apostrophe crap gets in there.

    There MUST be a way to get rid of these… I am sure 99.999% of every other WP user has this problem too, right?

    Sorry to be so frustrated, but I really need to find a fix to this.

    Thread Starter WPChina

    (@wordpresschina)

    This really is a pain in the a**. How can I solve this? Any ideas?

    I have an idea, but probably not enough information for you.

    In essence, your blog is displaying quotation marks as “smart quotes” — kind of a curly quote rather than straight up-and-down quotation marks.

    It’s been a long time, but I believe I used a plugin called wpuntexturize to switch back to regular (non-curly) quotes.

    WordPress Chin —

    What do you use to write your blog posts in? If you are using a program like MSWord or something similar, those programs use special characters such as “curly” quotes, long dashes, etc. However, curly quotes are not automatically recognized as web code. The have to be specially coded to look that way.

    Simple quotes show up normally on web sites. So, your best bet is to try to compose your blog posts in a simple text editor (one that doesn’t use fancy formatting or special characters) such as NotePad or SimpleText. A very basic text editor will hopefully solve this problem.

    Another more involved solution if you want to stay with MSWord is to ALWAYS save your blog posts as “plain text files.” This removes any additional formatting but it’s more of a pain than just using a basic text editor.

    There are a few plugins to prevent this also, but I don’t think you need them. Just be sure not to copy and paste formatted text from Word or a rich text editor into WordPress and you’ll be fine.

    Thread Starter WPChina

    (@wordpresschina)

    Yes, I understand that. I am not copying and pasting anything into WP. I am writing directly into WP. I have tried both with the WYSIWYG editor on and off, but still it doesn’t work. I also see thta this www.ads-software.com/support has similar problems, so I think it’s a problem across many installations.

    In general I do not use MS Word, and only use Notepad, and when I do copy/paste magicquotes (smart qupotes) form other files, I do ctrl-H and find/replace all the curly with regular quotes.

    Yes, I will test wpuntexturize ands see if that works. Many thanks for the help ??

    The thing is… WP is utf-8 and when other utf-8 sites syndicate me, the quotes are displayed fine. However if there is a site that is not using a charset of utf-8 that is syndicating my headlines via RSS, then it looks like doodoo when my apostrophes are displayed.

    https://www.moskalyuk.com/blog/removing-curly-quotes-from-wordpress-20/

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