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1. msadventures
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Hi all.
   Have installed WP 1.5.2 on another site of mine and am coming across a problem that didn't happen on my first WP-based site. My apostrophes and quotation marks are showing up with backslashes in front of them once I publish a page or post.

   Examples: It's becomes It\'s

   A link goes from this: a href= "http://example.com"
   to \"http://example.com\" ...and doesn't lead to the intended destination as a result.

   I did a search and pulled up this post but didn't find a resolution posted. Can someone help please?

   Thanks. :)

2. Kahil
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   all of a sudden, without any changes, I am getting this too...

   editing the comment/post does not help neither...

   example...

   \"something\"

3. Michael Bishop
   Forum Concierge
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Let me guess, you are running 2.0.3?

   http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/wordpress-203-tuneup/

4. Kahil
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   yup!!

   i went to that site, but it didn't say anything about fixing the backslash problem...just those annoying "are you sure" things...

5. Kahil
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   OK... Now it is ok when I actually go into the database itself and change it and it works fine...

   I also get this message... I'm not sure what it means exactly, but I think it is telling me that if I want to put in quote marks I'll have to place a backslash in front of it? now that is real annoying. I don't understand why all of a sudden it is doing this today...no changes were made whatsoever...it just happened on a new comment i just recieved a lil bit ago...

   1 If field type is "enum" or "set", please enter the values using this format: 'a','b','c'...
   If you ever need to put a backslash ("\") or a single quote ("'") amongst those values, preceed it with a backslash (for example '\\xyz' or 'a\'b').

   2 For default values, please enter just a single value, without backslash escaping or quotes, using this format: a

6. msadventures
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I had this issue on a different site, but it went away completely when I switched the site to a Linux server instead of Windows.

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