Slashes added to apostrophes

  • This is only happening in my site header – not in blog posts or any other text. I’m completely new to wordpress & assumed it would make life easier. Apparently it’s deciding that whenever I type an apostrophe, what I obviously meant to type was a forward-slash and then an apostrophe. Of course!

    I’ve spent two solid hours trying in vain to fix this. I’ve tried adding magic quote stuff to my htaccess file, currently looking like this:

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    # END WordPress

    – if I add:

    php_value magic_quotes_gpc off
    php_value magic_quotes_runtime off
    php_value magic_quotes_sybase off

    -anywhere in the file, I get a 500 internal server error, and a dead website.

    I can’t find any php.ini file. I’ve tried making one, adding:

    magic_quotes_runtime=off
    magic_quotes_gpc=off
    magic_quotes_sybase=off

    -and putting it on the website root, and a few other arbitrary places, with no luck.

    Is anyone able to help me out with this? It seems ridiculous. I’m not trying to set-up some ridiculously complicated e-shop/secure server/complex flash bollocks – I’m just trying to type some text without other characters appearing that I didn’t type.

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  • Have you tried:

    – deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems?

    Thread Starter wilx

    (@wilx)

    the only plugin listed is ‘Akismet’

    I’ve contacted the maker of the theme to see if he has any ideas. I literally installed wordpress, then instantly installed the theme so I’ve barely done anything yet – I don’t know how the specific text characteristics would translate to the default theme, since I entered that text in a field which was part of the skin’s own setup area.

    website is https://www.wilx.co.uk if it helps.

    That definitely sounds like a theme-specific issue. The theme author hasn’t taken apostrophes into account within text fields.

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