Posted 2 years ago #
Smart quotes make pasted code useless. Most programming code uses just ordinary double quotes and single quotes. Using other characters renders posted code useless.
I hope the WP developers give us a way to turn off smart quotes, because it's a serious problem when you paste code on your blog and expect users to have to manually convert the quotes to ordinary single and double quotes.
Smart quotes are performed by the wptexturize function. You can disable them by determining what the filter is and disabling it in your theme.
Example: Your post content is filtered through "the_content". So you want to turn off wptexturize for that filter. You do so by adding this to your theme's functions.php file:
remove_filter('the_content', 'wptexturize');
If you wanted to do it for comments instead, you'd do this:
remove_filter('comment_text', 'wptexturize');
And so on. The idea is to figure out exactly where you want to remove the filter from.
Posted 2 years ago #
I've created my own theme for my blog (from scratch) so I don't have a functions.php file for it.
Should I create one. Or can that line be added to index.php or header.php?
No, it must be in functions.php. So just create one. Make sure that it starts with <?php and ends with ?> and has NO blank lines or whitespace outside of those tags. The file must not produce any output.
Posted 2 years ago #
Thank you. I will try it out.
There's also the option of using one of the plugins that do this automatically for you...
Try TextControl for one, which will let you change it globally, or Alex King has one that does it post by post with custom settings.
All you need to do is do a google search, that's what I did.
Posted 2 years ago #
Thank you so much for this thread!!!
Posted 2 years ago #
Thanks.
I'm spamming this thread with keywords in case anyone else is looking for this by searching for help turning of extended characters or fancy quotes or curly quotes.
Got that? extended characters or fancy quotes or curly quotes -- these terms are wrong! You should be searching for smart quotes.
Posted 2 years ago #
Thanks everyone. This post was very useful to me. In addition, I've found ampersand (&) conversion to the numeric character reference 038 very annoying. Disabling wptexturize does not do the trick.
grep -r 038 wp-*
Added lines to 'wp-includes/formatting.php' line 396 (WordPress 2.2.2) (ironically, the code below is likely to get messed up):
// Converts lone & characters into & (a.k.a. &)
$content = preg_replace('/&([^#])(?![a-z1-4]{1,8};)/i', '&$1', $content);
// unless it's lead by double hashes
$content = str_replace('##&', '&', $content);Now, whenever I need a real ampersand I precede it with two hashes (##&). I don't suppose that's "the right thing" to do. Any other suggestions?
I'd just like WordPress to automatically turn off smart quotes for any text within <code></code> tags. Is there any way to hack WordPress to get that effect? I don't mind typing in the codes for other stuff (like < and >).
Posted 2 years ago #
There's a plugin called WP-untexturize. That did the trick for me.
I agree that this should be something you can turn off without a plug-in, though -- it's annoying that smart quotes are the default. Smart quotes look bad with certain fonts, and also can mess up apostrophes.
You can find the plugin here:
http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/06/27/plugin-wpuntexturize/
Posted 1 year ago #
I just released a plugin that disables smart quotes (currently only apostrophes and quotation marks) only within code blocks. I'd love to get your feedback on it. It can be downloaded from my site: http://www.planetmike.com
Posted 1 year ago #
I just released a plugin that disables smart quotes (currently only apostrophes and quotation marks) only within code blocks. I'd love to get your feedback on it. It can be downloaded from my site: http://www.planetmike.com
It took me a while to find the quote, for others you may have more downloaders if you link directly to the page of this plugin.
Posted 1 year ago #
or I guess I could do it for you: (http://www.planetmike.com/plugins/codequote/)
Posted 1 year ago #
Smart quotes are great, and should be on by default, but they should be turned off within code and pre tags, and there should be a tag for turning them off in other situations.
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