Comments on: Plugin : No Curly Quotes

By: WordPress Plugins Used On This Blog | Evan Valentine, Stay-at-Home Dad

WordPress Plugins Used On This Blog | Evan Valentine, Stay-at-Home Dad — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:12:14 +0000

[...] No Curly Quotes. Stops WordPress from turning ' and " characters into curly quotes in blog posts, titles, excerpts and comments. Options can be set for each element separately. Curly quotes cause problems when cutting&pasting text. [...]

By: Svatopia

Svatopia — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:08:01 +0000

Hi Sue,

thanks for the plugin. I'm wondering, does this retroactively go back to swap out curly quotes that have already been written in posts, or only effect new stuff? I've tried various plugins and the manual version too, but I'm still seeing curly quotes in my posts (stuff I imported from Blogger, so maybe that's the problem).

- S

By: Moving to Freedom: No More ‘Curly Quotes’ in WordPress

Moving to Freedom: No More ‘Curly Quotes’ in WordPress — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:01:04 +0000

[...] example, here's the "No Curly Quotes" plugin from which I learned the four calls to the remove_filter function to turn off conversions for post [...]

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:05:31 +0000

Yes Piet, I blogged that myself back in May
http://blogmum.com/2009/05/stop-wordpress-breaking-code-in-your-posts/
as I linked at the beginning of my post.

Actually if you want to turn it off for comments, titles, and excerpts as well as post content, it's four lines of code. And lots of people don't like to dive into PHP.

By: Piet

Piet — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:02:27 +0000

Hi Sue, great solution to get rid of the curly quotes, but that means yet another plugin to deal with. For the people who like to dive into their code, there is another way of doing it, without the need for the plugin. It has been described on Totally WordPress and it is basically adding 1 line of code to the functions.php file. EDIT can't add code to your blog, so follow the link to see how...