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Plugin: wpuntexturize

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Name:
wpuntexturize
Author:
Scott Reilly
Version:
0.91
Last updated:
06 July 2004
Description:
A mini-plugin to undo some of the formatting performed by wptexturize().

Notes:

There is such nothing to this that I hesitate to make it a plugin, much less release it. Here it is anyways.

Basically, wptexturize() (located in /wp-includes/functions-formatting.php), performs certain character and text replacements that I’m not too groovy with, namely this ( ‘ ) being replaced with ( ‘ ) or ( &#8217 ), and ( ” ) being replaced with ( “ ) or ( ” ). I appreciate the other character and text replacements that were happening, just not those. I could just as well have commented out the code for those offending substitutions in the functions-formatting.php file, but I prefer to modify the core code as little as possible.

Installation:
  1. Download the file wpuntexturize.zip and unzip it into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
    -OR-
    Copy and paste the the code ( wpuntexturize.phps ) into a file called wpuntexturize.php, and put that file into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin from your WordPress admin ‘Plugins’ page.
Functions:

function wpuntexturize($text)

This is a helper function that retrieves the URL of the image for a specified category. Returns ” if no image was found:

  • $text : The text to be untexturized.
Tips & Examples:
N/A
Release Log:
  • 06 Jul 2004: v0.91 — The release omitted the &8221; untexturization
  • 27 Jun 2004: v0.9 — Released to the public
Copyright & Disclaimer:

Copyright (c) 2004, Scott Reilly
All rights reserved.

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  • Neither the name of coffee2code.com nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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Acknowledgements:
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25 replies on “Plugin: wpuntexturize” 

remove_filter('comment_text', 'wptexturize');
remove_filter('single_post_title', 'wptexturize');
remove_filter('the_title', 'wptexturize');
remove_filter('the_content', 'wptexturize');
remove_filter('the_excerpt', 'wptexturize');

Mathias: You misunderstand my intent with this plugin. I did not wish for ALL of wptexturize’s replacements to be removed. Just the curly quotes. Though I suppose calling it wpuntexturize was a misnomer.

Yeah, I noticed that when he announced it. Unfortunately, its the nature of the WP plugin world that the wheel gets reinvented many times over.

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hello
could this plug be used to fix my problems with rssfeeds and ÅÄÖ-characters ?
i use rsstoblog to post rssfeeeds to my blog but rsstoblog doesnt support other then utf-8 ;(
could i still use this plug you think?

Thanks for this. I use some Chinese characters on my blog, and they don’t play nice with smart quotes, so this helps me out a lot!

I adore WordPress but don’t like it doing me “favors” that I cannot easily stop it from doing.

But one reason I stick with it is the great community—incl. plugin developers.

Thanks again.

This is a great plugin. I was fed up with the fact that search engines doesn’t get curly quotes, that is, searching for Einstein’s is not the same as searching for Einstein’s with a curly quote.

Thanks Scott. I installed this plugin so I could use the integrated Digg-It button with permalinks. Before, it wouldn’t pick up the Digg_URL because it was converting the single quotes to fancy quotes (&#8216).

-ewH

This plugin saved my life!!! I was looking for this for 2 freakin months. Thanks for making this plugin.

I noticed that it hasn’t been updated for a long time but on the bright side, it works with WP 2.2!

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