Title: Customisation of WP autocorrect function Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Customisation of WP autocorrect function * Resolved [abzu2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abzu2/) * (@abzu2) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customisation-of-wp-autocorrect-function/) * Would like to know if it is possible to disable WP’s autocorrect function or how to modify the autocorrect options. Fail to find a plugin to facilitate this option. Found “Kih WordPress Auto Correct” which is limited to only correcting wordpress to WordPress. A step in the right direction but somewhat limited. * Have a problem with WP modifying morse code text to non-valid text, * ie: .-.. — …- . * however, after accepting the changes it is converted to: * .-.. — …- . * the three dashes are converted to a bar and the formatting of three dots in a row is also altered, thus returning an error when converting morse code to text. Have tried various options without any success. * It should be: .-.. — …- . * Fail to see how to resolve this issue. * TIA Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * [Mizagorn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mizagorn/) * (@mizagorn) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customisation-of-wp-autocorrect-function/#post-5457695) * Open up the file `formatting.php` in the `wp-includes` folder off your site’s root folder. Line numbers are assuming you are running the latest WordPress version. * To completely bypass the WordPress “autocorrect” feature, you can change line 33 from: * `$default_no_texturize_tags, $default_no_texturize_shortcodes, $run_texturize = true;` * to * `$default_no_texturize_tags, $default_no_texturize_shortcodes, $run_texturize = false;` * changing `$run_texturize` to `false` so that the filter is not applied anywhere at all. * If you just want to not autocorrect the dots and dashes, do a search for any dot-dash combination you want to stay as is, within that `wptexturize` function and comment out related code. For example, commenting out ellipses processing in lines 98-99: * ``` $static_characters = array_merge( array( /* '...', */ '''', '\'\'', ' (tm)' ), $cockney ); $static_replacements = array_merge( array( /* '…', */ $opening_quote, $closing_quote, ' ™' ), $cockneyreplace ); ``` * and line 176: * `/* $dynamic[ '/---/' ] = $em_dash; */` * Thread Starter [abzu2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abzu2/) * (@abzu2) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customisation-of-wp-autocorrect-function/#post-5457704) * Mizagorn * Thank you very much for your kind reply and suggestions. I opted for the modification of the auto-correction of dots+dashes. * The original codes for lines 98,99,176 are as follows: * > `$static_characters = array_merge( array( '...', '``’, ‘\’\”, ‘ ™’ ), $cockney); > > $static_replacements = array_merge( array( ‘…’, $opening_quote, $closing_quote,‘ > ™’ ), $cockneyreplace ); > $dynamic[ ‘/—/’ ] = $em_dash; > ` * When I replaced them with your suggestions I was unable to log in to my site. Blank page. Restoring the original code enables me to get my site abzu2.com back up Using a child Elucidate theme to use modifications, don’t know if that could be an issue ¿? * TIA * [Mizagorn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mizagorn/) * (@mizagorn) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customisation-of-wp-autocorrect-function/#post-5457734) * Hi abzu, * I’m sorry about the troubles you had with that! It is highly likely that there was a comment area in the above lines that wasn’t put in exactly correctly, which generated an error, causing the site to fuss at you. * First, just try commenting out *all* of line 176. Only that line. Then see what happens. Make sure you start the line with `/*` (forward-slash, star, space) and end the line with `*/` (space, star, forward-slash). * If that works OK, then, instead of commenting out *sections* of lines 98 & 99, comment out the whole lines (like above) and replace them with this: * $static_characters = array_merge( array( ‘‘, ‘\’\”, ‘ ™’ ), $cockney ); $static_replacements = array_merge( array( $opening_quote, $closing_quote, ‘ ™’ ), $cockneyreplace); * [Mizagorn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mizagorn/) * (@mizagorn) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customisation-of-wp-autocorrect-function/#post-5457735) * Oh no! I see what happened lol * My post got modified here just like your morse code gets modified. ha ha * For line 98 above, the double back-ticks in the first set of quotes that are part of the code are being replaced with *nothing* because it’s expecting those to be code markers (see right below the box you type in here to see what I mean). * You know what? Just comment out the original lines 98 and 99. If you ever need a trademark symbol instead of ™, just use the code `& copy ;` (with no spaces) in place of ™. * Thread Starter [abzu2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abzu2/) * (@abzu2) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customisation-of-wp-autocorrect-function/#post-5457743) * Mizagorn * Thanks for all your help. Some progress has been made following your suggestion to comment out all of lines 98,99 and 176. The 3 consecutive dots are now displayed correctly, however, the 3 consecutive dashes are displayed incorrectly as a long and short dash. Previously the 3 consecutive dashes had been displayed as one long dash. If you look at the header of my site you will see what I am referring to. Now .-.. –- …- . Convergence of Parallel Worlds * Hope someone makes a plugin to facilitate these “auto correct” options. WP shouldn’t rely on AI and give us mortals a try 🙂 * [Mizagorn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mizagorn/) * (@mizagorn) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customisation-of-wp-autocorrect-function/#post-5457745) * Try this: * Comment all lines 98-99, 176-182 and 268-270. * Or, like I said, you can turn it ALL off by changing line 33 to `false`. * I agree, a plugin for this would be great! * Thread Starter [abzu2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abzu2/) * (@abzu2) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customisation-of-wp-autocorrect-function/#post-5457747) * Fantastic. That did the job. Thank you very much for your time and expertise. Very much appreciated. * [Mizagorn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mizagorn/) * (@mizagorn) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customisation-of-wp-autocorrect-function/#post-5457752) * You’re very welcome, best wishes on your site. 🙂 * Thank you for marking this as resolved. * [unklee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/unklee/) * (@unklee) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customisation-of-wp-autocorrect-function/#post-5457926) * I don’t know if anyone will see this, but I have been using WordPress on my own site for several years, and only now has it started to do autocorrect on my posts, in a little blue box which appears below the text. It must have been part of a recent update. * I hate it! It seems to get things wrong more often than right, and I don’t always notice that what is there is not what I typed. I find in word processors as well as WordPress auto correct is a most annoying, inaccurate and persistent problem. * I wish it was an option in the Dashboard, but it appears not to be. Grrrr! 🙂 * I will try this hack. Thanks. * [unklee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/unklee/) * (@unklee) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customisation-of-wp-autocorrect-function/#post-5457927) * Hi Mizagorn, * I hope toy read this. I changed true to false in line 33, but it made no difference to my problem. Are we talking about the same thing? I want to stop the autocorrect which shows in a small blue box below the text, and more often gets it wrong than right. * Thanks. * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customisation-of-wp-autocorrect-function/#post-5457928) * If you need help, create a thread in the Troubleshooting forum: [https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform) * If you want to give feedback to WordPress core, create a thread in the Requests and Feedback forum: [https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback#postform](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback#postform) Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) The topic ‘Customisation of WP autocorrect function’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 11 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customisation-of-wp-autocorrect-function/#post-5457928) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics