Performify

works great to fix some of the problems with smart quotes in WordPress 2.0 and beyond.

However, it does not correctly handle the situation where you’ve got a URL behind the quotes and thus the opening <a href= tag

for example:

("This works") works fine with your plugin.

("<a href=>this breaks</a>") is not correctly handled.

Guyvan,

thanks to your great work identifying the specific issue, I was able to find this:

https://trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/3886

Aplying the revisions suggested in that post fixed my issue. I have confirmed that the fix fixed the issue, on both of my wordpress sites which were having the issue.

looks like the patch is going to be in 2.2, set for 04/23/07. If like me you can’t wait that long, to fix manually yourself:

edit functions.php under the wp-includes directory

search for the following line in functions.php:

nocache_headers

immediately above that entry, you should see the following:

if ( version_compare(phpversion(), '4.3.0', '>=') )
  @header("HTTP/1.1 $header $text", true, $header);
else
  @header("HTTP/1.1 $header $text");

what you need to do is comment out the two lines with @header in them (by placing // before it) and add the lines i’ve added below (each added line is commented below it with “above line added to fix squid”). The “if” and “else” statements stay the same…

if ( version_compare(phpversion(), '4.3.0', '>=') )
    // @header("HTTP/1.1 $header $text", true, $header);
    // above line needs commented out
  @header($_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]." $header $text", true, $header);
//above line added to fix squid issue
else
    // @header("HTTP/1.1 $header $text");
    // above line needs commented out
  @header($_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]." $header $text");
//above line added to fix squid

Best of luck. Drop me an email or IM if you need help (contact info on my blog below), i owe you one for identifying that this was an issue particular to squid and thus letting me track it down…

-Performify
https://performify.com

Wow, impressive troubleshooting work.

I was indeed viewing the site through a proxy (squid) on the browser that was having trouble. When I turn off the proxy? No proxy, no problem.

Not sure what this means – but my site renders just fine if I’m directly connected to the internet, and renders random letter/number characters otherwise.

So you’re right – its definitely squid.

Other additional details:

It doesn’t seem to be template based or specific to a customization. We have a very vanilla install of WP 2.12 at https://live.ufcjunkie.com/ and it does the same thing – random characters through the proxy, no random characters after removing the proxy.

I assumed this was an issue related to the server move, but I’m assuming instead its a bug with 2.12. Our old site was on the previous version and had no issues.

Hopefully that helps someone in support track this issue down…

I’m experiencing the exact same issue.

We just moved https://ufcjunkie.com across servers.

I’m getting the exact same behavior – random characters and numbers appearing throughout the site, only appears in firefox (v 2.0.0.2) but everything appears normal in IE.