nickchia

Thank you alchymyth,

First, let me say that I really appreciate the time you are giving me to help solve my issue. I do not take your assistance lightly.

I replaced the array with your code and you can see the results at the same link. Unfortunately the site is in staging, so I need to keep the password on the folder. Its only a simple permission to view the contents.
https://foodtruckfeeds.com/foodtrucks/browse-food-trucks/

Could it be the second part of the code that’s inhibiting it?

// Our new query for the Recent Posts section.
$recent = new WP_Query( $recent_args );

// The first Recent post is displayed normally
if ( $recent->have_posts() ) : $recent->the_post();

// Set $more to 0 in order to only get the first part of the post.
global $more;
$more = 0;

get_template_part( ‘content’, get_post_format() );

echo ‘<ol class=”other-recent-posts”>’;

endif;

// For all other recent posts, just display the title and comment status.
while ( $recent->have_posts() ) : $recent->the_post(); ?>

<li class=”entry-title”>
” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title(); ?>
<span class=”comments-link”>
<?php comments_popup_link( ‘<span class=”leave-reply”>’ . __( ‘Leave a reply’, ‘twentyeleven’ ) . ‘</span>’, __( ‘<b>1</b> Reply’, ‘twentyeleven’ ), __( ‘<b>%</b> Replies’, ‘twentyeleven’ ) ); ?>
</span>

<?php
endwhile;

// If we had some posts, close the

if ( $recent->post_count > 0 )
echo ‘

‘;
?>

You can download the code here:
https://adobe.ly/1L1CYle

@alchymyth

Thank you for your response. Unfortunately, it did not work. I don’t understand why WordPress made this so difficult. There should be an option in the GUI for this. This is now the third day I am working on this and I am falling behind on this job and my other clients. Starting to get really stressed out. At this point, if I can’t resolve this, I’m going to trash the WordPress application and manually build a new site. As I said, this should be as simple as changing an option. This is the absolute last thing I need to do to finish this site, and it seems that I’m going to have to start all over with WordPress.

If you have any other suggestions, I welcome them.

I’m sorry. I simply meant that there is no specific code where that this happens. I happens on two different sites both hosted on Network Solutions. I will gladly show you a screen shot so you can see what happens. Please see link from BergenCountyDanceClasses.com website:

https://adobe.ly/1HLo92o

Thank you.

You still do not have a grasp of the issue. I don’t mean to sound rude, but this is a veery frustrating problem. I cannot send you the code because the code is fine and this happens no matter what page i put it in, every time.

According to this link:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/please-give-us-the-option-to-turn-of-smart-quotes?replies=15

“Smart quotes are performed by the wptexturize function.” It further gives you a function to add. But the post is four years old and I am afraid the info might be outdated. The post also mentions a couple plug-ins you can use to disable the auto conversion to smart quotes, but one has not been updated for 7 years, and the other one for 10 years.

This is a big problem for any programmer using WordPress. Someone out there must have the answer.

@kmessinger
Because I am coding in HTML within the text area. Smart quotes do not work inside code. They blow the page apart. This is very problematic since every HTML attribute requires quotes.