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The "fancy quotes" WordPress uses has been driving me crazy. First, the fancy quote looks weird when WordPress uses two right quotes instead of one left and one right. WordPress doesn't use the wrong quote all of the time, but it happens enough to annoy me.

The other problem I have with the fancy quotes is that some of the WordPress plugins choke on the fancy quotes. This usually happens when you are on a site (like this one) that explains how to do something by copying and pasting some code from their site. If the code involves quotes, WordPress turns them into fancy quotes. So, when you copy a quote from a WordPress site and paste it into a text editor like Homesite, you don't actually get a quote. Instead, you get a special character that looks like a quote, but doesn't behave like one. As a result, a plugin like the Landing Sites Plugin crashes.

I finally got around to installing the Unfancy Quote Plugin for WordPress. The plugin replaces the fancy quotes inserted by WordPress with simple quotes. I've been testing the plugin on my test site and it works as advertised. The plugin was simple to install and you don't have to insert any special code into your templates. All you have to do is activate the plugin in the admin menu.

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