I’ve been cursing at this quite often. Since this is a tech-related blog with code snippets, command line arguments, … running it on wordpress means that it always results in having characters replaced by the WordPress default formatting. In the end, that means that a single quote ’ or a double quote " would always get replaced by a better-looking HTML character. That made copy/pasting from this blog to a terminal near impossible.
Previously, I would just hack the WordPress core (for WordPress 3.3 and 3.2 or 3.1 ) by editting some files. But any update would of course undo my change, since hacking the core of anything makes kittens cry.
Therefore it was time to create a solid fix, one that would last through the different updates. So I present to you, my Undo WordPress Default Formatting plugin for WordPress!
It’s a very simple thing but I’m sure it applies to a lot of techblogs out there running on WordPress.
**Plugin page at WordPress: **http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/undo-wordpress-default-formatting/
I’ll keep the subversion repository up-to-date, so feel free to report any findings via the page at wordpress.org .