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and this error is displaying in all the posts. * How can i change this without cleaning all posts? * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/advertising-manager/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advertising-manager/) Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [moreno84](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moreno84/) * (@moreno84) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-smybols-in-text/#post-5617746) * Hello, I have the same problem, that is visible here: * [http://games.cristianoleoni.com/](http://games.cristianoleoni.com/) * I have other blogs which don’t trigger the problem, I checked and tried to disable other plugins but it seems only Advertising Manager produces this effect. If you need a copy of the site to reproduce the problem, just contact me (email at the about page of the above site) * Thanks * [hafman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hafman/) * (@hafman) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-smybols-in-text/#post-5617760) * Same happening here. Isolated Advertising manager as the culprit. If there are any ` ` in the text it shows as a question mark Wordpress 4.1.1, Magazinium theme V3. * [hamil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hamil1/) * (@hamil1) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-smybols-in-text/#post-5617761) * I have the same problem. * Plugin Author [switzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/switzer/) * (@switzer) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-smybols-in-text/#post-5617764) * admarkt: moreno84: hafman: himil1: * There was an upgrade of WordPress which required a new methodology of shortcodes. We had to modify any ads that were embedded in posts with a new shortcode format. It appears that there was an encoding problem when saving posts that had our shortcodes. * Even after many tests, and the fact that the automatic upgrade was optional, the encoding still broke for a small number of users. * One method of changing back is to do a MySQL REPLACE in your posts table in your database (after backing up your data!): * [https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html#function_replace](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html#function_replace) * [cleoni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cleoni/) * (@cleoni) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-smybols-in-text/#post-5617767) * After a many strange, wrong symbols in the text on my sites I was finally able to fix the problem myself, if anybody has the same problem, with version 3.15.3 you just apply this change: * file advertising-manager/advertising-manager.php line 123 * replace: * return preg_replace_callback($patterns, ‘advman_filter_content_callback’, html_entity_decode( $content)); * with * return preg_replace_callback($patterns, ‘advman_filter_content_callback’, $content); * in brief: that html_entity_decode() just breaks the code. * My recommendation is to NOT perform a mysql search+replace. * With this simple fix all ads display beautifully, e.g.: * [http://www.simplestgallery.com/what-is-simplest-gallery-plugin/](http://www.simplestgallery.com/what-is-simplest-gallery-plugin/) * Long live Advertising manager, by far the simplest and most intuitive plugin for ads around! Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘Wrong smybols in text’ is closed to new replies. *  * [Advertising Manager](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advertising-manager/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advertising-manager/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/advertising-manager/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/advertising-manager/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/advertising-manager/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/advertising-manager/reviews/) * 5 replies * 6 participants * Last reply from: [cleoni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cleoni/) * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-smybols-in-text/#post-5617767) * Status: resolved