The intriguing « » mystery

  • Dr. Merc

    (@dr-merc)


    11 years, 1 month ago

    Greetings, all –

    I’ve run into a truly intriguing problem. I’m setting up a new site and using a great-looking theme called ‘Autumn Scene’. Down at the bottom of the comments page (on the site) are two links, one going to the previous post and one going to the next. Each uses the little double-arrow character, like so:

    « (name of previous post) (name of next post) »

    I want to remove these entries. Normally, I’d just do an in-depth search using Super Finder for one of the two special characters and eventually I’d be able to nail down the culprit.

    Except in this case:

    – the theme folder yielded zero hits
    – wp-admin yielded zero hits
    – wp-includes yielded one hit, a .js file buried deep in the ‘tinymce’ folder, and a quick examination showed that wasn’t it.

    I’d note that the above search was filtering out binary files, like .png and .jpg, since they use the two special characters all the time. I’d also note that I disabled every plugin at one point.

    So, any thoughts, gentlemen? I admit, this one’s got me stumped.

    Thanks,
    Doc

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Where did you download the theme from?

    Thread Starter Dr. Merc

    (@dr-merc)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    I couldn’t tell ya exactly, but probably here. You can barely see it in the picture, but it’s got a little shade line running down both sides that gives it a nice 3-D look, and I needed a theme with the sidebar on the left and a fairly large banner. A bunch of mini-tweaks later and everything perfect — except for this little snag.

    (And the fact that I can’t get CKEditor to display the CKFinder buttons, but that’s another story)

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    I’m sorry but as you are using a commercially supported theme, you need to seek support from the theme’s developers – paid or otherwise. We only support themes downloaded from wordpress.org here.

    mojowill

    (@mojowill)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    You may want to search for

    &racquo; and &lacquo;

    They are the HTML encoded entities.

    http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp

    Thread Starter Dr. Merc

    (@dr-merc)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    esmi –

    Well, it might have been commercially-supported when I got it, because of the stuff in the footer, but it sure ain’t anymore. 🙂

    I wouldn’t view this as a “theme” problem, though, but a “layout” problem, in that the theme is probably making a ‘call’ to an actual WP file, which is the one displaying the before/next post.

    The funny part is that I’ve made zillions of tweaks over the years, with the usual problem being a search for the key word pops up dozens of pages, but I’ve never seen one that was missing before.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    The wordpress.org support forums are meant for the core application, themes and plugins that are distributed on wordpress.org. We do not support themes downloaded from elsewhere.

    Thread Starter Dr. Merc

    (@dr-merc)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    mojowill – No joy, but a great suggestion. You wouldn’t think a PHP programmer would stoop to ‘raw’ HTML, but one ne’er can tell.

    esmi –

    “We do not support themes downloaded from elsewhere.”

    Has anyone ever bothered to ask why? This seems like a pretty good case in point. I’m not asking a ‘theme’ question, like “How do I make the sidebar wider?”, but a question about functionality and posts and what WP files might be involved. How forcing me to go to the WP themes area, download and test 10 themes to find one that has the same feature does anyone any good, I dunno.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    You wouldn’t think a PHP programmer would stoop to ‘raw’ HTML

    Uh? PHP is designed to be used with HTML markup and the markup mentioned above is part of the relevant template tags default output!

    Has anyone ever bothered to ask why?

    There is no “why”. This is official wordpress.org policy. Full stop.

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