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Fixing -- in WordPress

One thing that I've noticed is that whenever I used -- in a post, such as this one, WordPress converted the -- to &emdash; which whilst very pretty doesn't work so well for people trying to understand command line switches to ./configure!

Today, I finally got around to poking into the WP source code to work out what was happening and I tracked it down to the wptexturize function in the wp-includes/functions-formatting.php file. Once I knew the name, it was trivial to google for a solution and I found Jason Litka's Disable wptexturize plugin. I couldn't find it through WordPress' new built-in plugin installer, so I installed it the old-fashioned way and now the code in my posts will make more sense!

This entry was posted on Saturday, 21st March 2009 at 12:50 and is filed under Site, WordPress. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

2 Responses to “Fixing -- in WordPress”

  1. 1 Joseph Scott
    March 23rd, 2009 at 17:10 #

    Another solution would be to use a plugin to format source code sections of posts. I use the SyntaxHighlighter plugin for this:

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/syntaxhighlighter

    There are plenty of other options out there as well.

  2. 2 Cliff Stanford
    March 23rd, 2009 at 18:28 #

    > now the code in my posts will make more sense!

    Promise? :)

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