I’m also experimenting the same issue with WP 2.8.2
Don’t know if my sysadmin enabled the PHP Magic quotes, but slashed appears when editing a comment within the admin panel.
Comments from the web don’t show this behavior.
I tried to disable magic quotes in my .htaccess, but this does’t fix the problem… 🙁
(@waldekmastykarz)
17 years, 8 months ago
The single quotes in comments are being escaped with a \ (backslash). The escaped quotes are stored in the wp database but are not stripped when displaying either on the blog or the wp-admin.
It’s not theme specific as I’ve tried using different themes and the problem persists.
Is it a known bug or does it have something to do with my WP/PHP configuration?