Curly Quotes

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  neoarch · Member · Mar 7, 2006 at 2:41 pm

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  Why is it that wordpress converts standard quotation marks into curly quotes? This causes problems when one searches on engines like Technorati. I wrote a post yesterday dealing with an author named Catherine O’Sullivan. I searched that name in technorati and found nothing. I then copied the name directly from my blog to the technorati search field and found exactly what I was looking for. The difference was wordpress had converted my regular quotes to curly “smart” quotes. Can I stop it from doing that?

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  wank · Member · Mar 7, 2006 at 4:17 pm

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  Posts are run through a filter which converts the quotes and there’s no way of disabling that, so I suggest either a) editing the post and replacing the smart quotes with " or b) using single quotes instead.

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  neoarch · Member · Mar 10, 2006 at 4:22 am

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  thanks, wank.

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  veltis · Member · Aug 27, 2006 at 6:31 am

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  I have been trying to add a bit of code on my blog for people to copy, but it the curly quotes mess it up. Can’t use " because it’s html, and then of course WordPress simply displays the html. Help!

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  drmike · Member · Aug 27, 2006 at 10:56 pm

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  Change the & mark into a &

  That will give you &quot

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  veltis · Member · Aug 29, 2006 at 12:37 pm

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  Sorry, I just started a new thread because I thought this one was dead and gone and no one was looking at it anymore… tried what you suggested, but that doesn’t seem to work either, I end up with <a href=&quot;http bla bla bla, which doesn’t work when re-pasted into html… Frustrating, no?

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  drmike · Member · Aug 29, 2006 at 8:28 pm

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  Do me a favor. Put what code you’re trying to post into a text file and upload it to your blog. We may be misunderstanding some thing here on what you’re trying to do.

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  veltis · Member · Sep 2, 2006 at 11:49 am

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  Hello again, I did what you suggested in the other thread and put this in HTML:

  <a href=&quot;http://www.eat.fi&quot;>this link</a>

  I got:

  <a href=”http://www.eat.fi”>this link</a>

  Close, but still curly quotes. Is " not the right term?

  I also tried uploading a text file to my blog as you asked, but it wouldn’t let me because the file “did not meet security guidelines”… <<sighh>>

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  veltis · Member · Sep 2, 2006 at 11:50 am

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  Those “less than” marks above were & lt; before I posted, even within backticks. Minus the space.

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  veltis · Member · Sep 3, 2006 at 10:07 am

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  Found a solution:

  http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Code_in_Your_Posts

  There’s something called a <pre> tag. It’s not pretty, but it works.