Posted 5 years ago #
what's up everyone-
This is my first time blogging and my first blogsite. So if I sound stupid please forgive me.
My question: Why is the letter A appearing allover my post and I didn't type it?? It's very annoying and I can't make them go away.... It makes my post look like I've mispelled alot of words by adding the letter A.
Can someone help me with this problem??
Heres my site- http://www.thunderscape.net/blog
"SPEAKEZY"
Thanks in advance for any help!
Posted 5 years ago #
Is your encoding set to UTF-8?
Posted 5 years ago #
Thanks for the reply-
Yes my encoding is set at UTF-8.
Any other suggestions?
in your header.php file, try changing this:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="UTF-8" />
to this:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
The original line probably has PHP in it, so comment it out instead of deleting it and replace it with the above.
Also, are you inputting your posts directly into WordPress, or are you writing your posts in something like Microsoft Word and then copying/pasting into WordPress?
Posted 5 years ago #
What's up-
Thanks for the reply, My header.php file reads:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo ('charset'); ?>" />
so I'll try to edit this as you suggested and see what happens. Also I'm posting directly into wordpress.
Posted 5 years ago #
het guys-
No deal, I tryed editing the meta tag, but that just made my about page disappear and leave just the post!!! So thats a no go.
Any other suggestions??
Thanks in advance.
Posted 5 years ago #
I don't think this is a coding problem. Here's a sample of your source code:
<p>This lottery crap has got me vexxed. That’s for real! What’s pissin me off is the fact that everytime the georgia lottery grows to like 352.MILL, the winners always come in two catagoreis<strong>: They are either white and old in the age range of 40 and up</strong><em>, </em><strong>or they are in the upper suburban class, you know… well off.</strong></p>
What plugins are you using?
Oh, and I'd change it back to UTF-8; that's the recommended setting.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo ('charset'); ?>" />
Right - all you'd have to replace is the <?php bloginfo..." stuff. The fact that you edited it and it made your page disappear makes absolutely no sense. Meta tags have nothing to do with your site's layout. The only thing I could guess was that you missed a closing tag.
and for the record this:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="UTF-8" /> is malformed. The *content* is text/html, the *charset* is UTF-8". SO it *should* be written:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
Oh, and I'd change it back to UTF-8; that's the recommended setting.
Yes, it is the recommended setting. But only because UTF-8 handles pretty much all character types out there - from Swedish to Russian to Chinese. But this guy is posting in stright-up English. If he plans to write in a nother language, I'd say to go ahead and keep the UTF-8. But if not, then it won't hurt to change to ISO-8859-1 - that's for English. Sometimes UTF-8 can screw with things.
I do agree though - it's odd that you have those tags in there, surrounding nothing. Were you, at one point, going to emphasize that section of text, and then decided against it? Maybe going into the code part (instead of using the RTE) and removing the extraneous code would help.
Posted 5 years ago #
You're very right, doodlebee. I kept mine as UTF-8 because not everyone who reads my site is from America. I travel around a bit, so I sometimes get comments in other languages. However, in this case it could go either way. Actually, I've heard that ISO 8859-1 leaves your files smaller. Fewer bits per character, I guess.
As far as the code goes, what I was trying to point out is that the "A's" aren't coded into the source. Something's putting them there.
Posted 5 years ago #
Hey guys thanks for the replies-
Again, This is my first website, so if I do something stupid, it is because I don't know!
I followed ya'lls above advice and tweeked the code as so:
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="<?php bloginfo ('charset'); ?>" /> to-
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8;" />
This time there where no changes at all!
ALL THOSE A's ARE STILL THERE!
This is pissin me off!!!!
btw- My plugins are: Akismet, wp-cache, Yahoo! Blog Statistics, Hosted by Yahoo! Badge, Add to My yahoo! Button, Customizable Permalinks--
all are activated!
Posted 5 years ago #
Aha! Question: do you have WP set to gzip your articles? In your WordPress admin, go to Options > Reading and scroll to the bottom. The last line is a checkbox and says "WordPress should compress articles (gzip) if browsers ask for them". That should be unchecked if you want to run wp-cache. That's probably going to be your problem.
Posted 5 years ago #
And just a gentle nudge.... once you've sorted this problem, you REALLY need to upgrade your wp version.... 2.0.2 was a long time back, and several security problems since....
Posted 5 years ago #
nice try Mr jonlandrum-
You had just got my hopes up with that last post, but unfortunatley that box is unchecked, so thanks for trying anyway!
If you come up with anything else let me know. I'm new to this.
Thanks again
I also will look into upgrading my version of wp once I get a full understanding of all this code tweeking.
(-_-)
Posted 5 years ago #
Well, do you have any compression rules in your .htaccess file? WP-cache can't handle compression; it throws stuff like you're seeing onto the screen. For kicks, turn it off and refresh your browser.
Posted 5 years ago #
We'll when I go to options> reading, scroll down to:
WordPress should compress articles (gzip) if browsers ask for them- I have that unchecked!
Also I don't know how to get to .htaccess file
Posted 5 years ago #
Right, I meant turn off the plugin. Sorry for the vagueness. Turn of WP-Cache and see if that's what it is. I'm almost positive it is, but it's worth the test to see.
Posted 5 years ago #
BINGO
Problem solved!!! :)
Thanks for all the help jon!!
(YOU ROCK!)
Posted 5 years ago #
Any time! :o)
If you're still interested in using a cache, WP has a caching engine built in.
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