Fix For Google/WordPress’ Translation Problem
admin on Mar 22 2008 at 9:30 am | Filed under: wordpress
HughesTech Labs:
This fix for WordPress v2.3.3 is in reference to our post about 8 hours ago.
We put our best Engineer on the apostrophe character problem that WordPress has with Titles around 1 A.M. EDT Today, he emerged from the Lab about an hour ago looking a bit pissed and agitated when he threw a printout in my in-basket.
He said to fix the apostrophe character problem with WordPress v2.3.3 you must edit the file called default-filters.php located in the wp-includes directory.
He said there are 2 changes that need to be made:
// Format strings for display.
$filters = array(’comment_author’, ‘term_name’, ‘link_name’, ‘link_description’,
‘link_notes’, ‘bloginfo’, ‘wp_title’);
foreach ( $filters as $filter ) {
// add_filter($filter, ‘wptexturize’); Comment this out as shown
add_filter($filter, ‘convert_chars’);
add_filter($filter, ‘wp_specialchars’);
}
// add_filter(’single_post_title’, ‘wptexturize’); find this line and comment it out
He is good…
Now if you use the apostrophe character in your WordPress post, Google will actually see the title as it was meant to be, and you should show up in the Google search results if you copy and paste the title of from your WordPress post into Google’s query search form.
As you can see this post is now using the apostrophe in the title….
Good work Sam, go get some sleep
