by Scott Reilly 4.6 (12 reviews)

wpuntexturize

Name: wpuntexturize
Rating: 4.6 (12 reviews)
Author: Scott Reilly

Prevent WordPress from converting single and double quotation marks into their curly alternatives.

wpuntexturize ranks #7,003 among WordPress.org plugins with 900+ active installations, is #197 of 1,182 in the Editor & Writing category, a 4.6/5 rating from 12 reviews, and was last updated Apr 8, 2025. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.8 (Current: 7.1.4)

v2.3 Current Version v2.3

Updated 1 year ago Last Update on 08 Apr, 2025

Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on

#197 of 1,182 in Editor & Writing Top 10% by installs Downloads -7.7% this week No update in over a year

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.3
Last Updated: Apr 08, 2025
Requires WP: 5.5+
Tested Up To: 6.8
PHP Version: N/A
Author: Scott Reilly

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6
Reviews: 12
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and developers who don't want straight quotation marks automatically converted to curly ones. It prevents WordPress's default curly-quote substitution while optionally allowing conversion of existing curly quotes back to straight ones.

Prevents curly quote conversion
Optionally converts existing curly quotes
Customizable filter hooks
Customizable character replacements
Safe function invocation hook
Developer documentation included

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about wpuntexturize

This ONLY prevents WordPress from making HTML entity code substitutions of single and double quotation marks with their curly alternatives and does NOT prevent WordPress from making any other character and string substitutions.

Most likely these curly quotes are actually present in your originally post content and are being directly shown to visitors. WordPress isn't converting these to curly quotes since they are already that way. This could happen if you copy-and-pasted text from another source. If you don't want any curly quotes to appear in your posts at all, then on the Settings -> Reading admin page check the checkbox labeled "Prevent all curly quotes?". (Or if you're a developer, look into use of the c2c_wpuntexturize_convert_curly_quotes filter.)

This plugin potentially modifies the post content, excerpt, title, comment text, widget text, and more. More specifically, it performs a wpuntexturize on every filter that WordPress applies the wptexturize to by default. This list comprises: comment_author, term_name, link_name, link_description, link_notes, bloginfo, wp_title, widget_title, single_post_title, single_cat_title, single_tag_title, single_month_title, nav_menu_attr_title, nav_menu_description, term_description, get_the_post_type_description, the_post_thumbnail_caption, the_title, the_content, the_excerpt, the_excerpt_embed, comment_text, list_cats, widget_text, widget_text_content This complete list can be filtered via wpuntexturize's own filter, wpuntexturize_filters.

Yes. The tests are not packaged in the release .zip file or included in plugins.svn.wordpress.org, but can be found in the plugin's GitHub repository.