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1. dacosta_rafael
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   I have the following code but it does not seem to change the character in wordpress

   $intro_copy = get_the_content() ;

   $intro_copy = str_replace('&', '', $intro_copy);

   echo $intro_copy;

2. dacosta_rafael
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   this worked for me . let me know if there is a 'better practice'

   <?php
   function replace_content($content)
   {
   $content = str_replace("&", "&", $content);
   $content = str_replace("é", "é", $content);
   $content = str_replace("—", "—", $content);
   $content = str_replace("‘", "‘", $content);
   $content = str_replace("’", "’", $content);
   $content = str_replace('“', "“", $content);
   $content = str_replace('”', "”", $content);
   return $content;
   }

   ?>

3. Harry
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   You could add what you want to find and replace into an array, and it would probably be more efficient.

   <?php
   function replace_content($content)
   {
     $search  = array('&', 'é', '—', '‘', '’', '“', '”');
     $replace = array('&', 'é', '—', '‘', '’', '“', '”');
   
     $content = str_replace($search, $replace, $content);
     return $content;
   }
   
   ?>

   Link: http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php - Check out the array examples.

   Hope this works, I haven't actually run the above code :)

4. rightmost
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Thanks Harry, that worked for me.

   Just to add on to this for anyone else interested... this is what I added to my functions.php file:

   <?php
   function replace_content($content)
   {
     //add content that you wish to replace to this array
     $search  = array('&', 'é', '—', '‘', '’', '“', '”');
     //add content that will replace old content to this array
     $replace = array('&', 'é', '—', '‘', '’', '“', '”');
   
     $content = str_replace($search, $replace, $content);
     return $content;
   }
   
   add_filter('the_content', 'replace_content');
   add_filter('the_excerpt', 'replace_content');
   ?>

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