The Mysteries of Wordpress
I am that person who used a copy of PhotoShop 5 for years and years after it was squarely out of date, simply because it was still doing what I needed it to do. Of course, once I did upgrade I was thrilled. (I currently have CS2 on this machine).
I have simple needs in most areas. I am content in this point in my life to own what works for me, rather than what might be the newest and most exciting innovation. Nonetheless, I did go ahead and upgrade my Wordpress this morning. I figure that Wordpress is an application that needs to perform optimally, since hundreds and hundreds of people are accessing my pages, and in turn depending on its functionality. Plus, who am I fooling? — it was a one-touch process.
I’m seeing one major issue. Some apostrophes are switching to oddball code (’) in all my blog entries. I think I will need to go back and manually edit these. What a pain. Maybe the almighty gods of journalism are punishing me for not writing out all of my words. They want to smite all of the evil apostrophes.
That happens in MT as well whenever I copy/paste text from another source.
If I type it myself, it doesn’t happen.
Angie, I tagged you for the Hi-5 Meme.
I know what you mean by upgrading… I am still on Photoshop 6!
Yup – I noticed the same thing on mine. Only it’s not apostrophes for me, it’s when I’ve done a double space between sentences – I get a capital A with a little thingy (can’t remember what it’s called) on top.
I’m far too lazy to go in and change it!
If you happen to have an old backup of your site, try replacing the new wp-config.php file with the old one. It’s a glitch with the character encoding and one of the easier fixes is to just replace the wp-config file. If that doesn’t work, check out wordpress.org…there’s another batch of fixes there. Hope this helps!