[gonzogone]

Ok, I'm currently stumped on this one... Been working on a new WP install most of the day. Got it looking the way I want and seems to be behaving except for one thing... The posts pages are having character issues where the index and category pages are not...

And to boot, this is not impacting static pages...

So far, I have one post to see how things look finished and finalize testing. On the index page, the post displays with no problem and all the characters are fine. Same goes for the category page. When I go to the actual post page, I'm getting special characters all over the place. Some of it is from it incorrectly doing special character replacements like "I've" becomes

PHP Code:

I’ve 


I'm also getting that fun wingdings question mark in a black diamond character everywhere there are two space characters in a row - like normally used after a period... I don't really want to fix it by using only one space since I'll have to think about that while I'm typing and it works on the index and category pages.

I've checked the page validations - the HTML is valid and the character sets seem to match. The CSS has some errors I'll be working on, but all of the ones I can easily spot are related to background property use and color definitions.

I've not had to deal with the differences in how post pages work versus displaying posts in other areas...

anybody have any ideas on this one?

[gonzogone]

In the words of Rosanna Danna... Never mind...

Plugin problem, something I had not even started actually looking at. I was checking for ways to do AdWords and found a plugin that says it will do inline AdWords in posts. Installed it, but had not configured it. Just deactivated it, then deleted it and the problem is gone...

Isn't working with WP fun!?

[VoyGeorge]

Was gonna say, those are them there fancy quotes things. WordPress likes to change apostophes and straight quotes into curly quotes.

[gonzogone]

yup - pretty annoying...

glad it turned out to be an easy fix though. Still have to decide how I'm going to do AdWords on these two. Likely just put the code into the right sidebar template file. I do like the idea of inline text ads, but for sure, that plugin isn't going to do the trick