Tom Atkins

Hi Conor

You should try this:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/117862?replies=6

(should be trivial to write a plugin to achieve the same)

You might also like:

http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2007/01/31/wordpress-21-more-editor-options/

For pasting in those Word files etc.

Personally I never use the Rich Text editor and use Markdown for everything.

Hope that helps, Tom

Conor

This isn’t just the RTE. Try putting . . . in a blog post title. The formatting.php file (with its mind-boggling cockney replacement text) is the culprit in that case.

I can hack all of these problems, my point is that I shouldn’t have to.

If the users are god, then to paraphrase the late great Bill Hicks “What god really meant to say was”

Tom Atkins

I hear what you’re saying! Fair point. That’s why I never use the RTE!

(My initial post wasn’t very precise the third post down by Lavendar on the page I linked to will fix the post title thingy too – just in case you do want to hack it for now!):

“If you’re like me and you dislike all of the replacement it does (dashes as well as ellipses, quotes, and other stuff), though, you can get rid of it all just by adding a few lines of PHP to your header file:

remove_filter (‘the_content’, ‘wptexturize’);
remove_filter (‘comment_text’, ‘wptexturize’);
remove_filter (‘single_post_title’, ‘wptexturize’);
remove_filter (‘the_title’, ‘wptexturize’);
remove_filter (‘the_excerpt’, ‘wptexturize’);

Very easy to make into a plugin.

Edward O'Connor

Yeah, this drives me absolutely batty when using wordpress.

Joe Drumgoole

Amen to that!

frankp

that three dots thing really annoys me.