Turning Off Wordpress “Smart Quotes”

July 16, 2008 General No Comments

I just realized today that Wordpress was converting my "straight" quotes into directional or so-called "smart" quotes. While this may be nice for nontechnical blogs, it's a pain in a programming-related blog. It can make a block of sample code useless when you copy and paste it until you go through it and convert those directional quotes back into the straight quotes normally used in most programming languages.

Fortunately, a little Googling quickly found this forum entry with a suggested fix. I used Otto42's suggestion:

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Wordpress Upgrade

July 3, 2008 General No Comments

I just completed the upgrade to Wordpress version 2.5.1. (Wordpress is the application which runs this blog.) It was a relatively painless process, and as it includes an important security fix, I recommend anyone else out there using Wordpress perform the upgrade as soon as possible.

Get the latest version here.

So far everything appears to be working fine, and hopefully it will have no effect on my readers (if there are any).