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want wordpress help

by ravi2011
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Hi Warriors,I want your help. I am getting some question mark in diamond shape in my wordpress posts since 2-3weeks. I am not able to publish a new post because of this problem. Please help me how can i resolve this problem.

Questions marks in diamond shape are appearing like this----.>>>
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  • Profile picture of the author Big Squid
    These are formatting errors when trying to handle special characters. Are you perhaps writing your post in Word, and then copy & pasting into WP?
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    • Profile picture of the author FirstSocialApps
      Its character encoding errors. Make sure your WP site / template is using UTF-8
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      • Profile picture of the author ravi2011
        Originally Posted by FirstSocialApps View Post

        Its character encoding errors. Make sure your WP site / template is using UTF-8
        Hi. How should I check that my WP site / template is using UTF-8 ?
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        • Profile picture of the author sndas
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          Simply write in MS Word and then copy paste them in Wordpress. That will work.
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          • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
            Originally Posted by sndas View Post

            Simply write in MS Word and then copy paste them in Wordpress. That will work.
            No, that will NOT work. Word embeds special control characters that the WP database doesn't know how to handle.

            You can, as someone already suggested, write your post in a plain text editor like Notepad, then copy/paste into the WP editor.

            OR you can use the 'Paste from Word' button in the editor. It has a 'W' symbol on it; you'll find it after you've clicked the 'Kitchen Sink' button on the editor. Copy to your clipboard from Word, click the button, then paste in the popup window.
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            • Profile picture of the author Marketer Matt
              If all else fails, you can always put your symbols in via the HTML tab.

              Here's a list of them: HTML Codes - Table of ascii characters and symbols
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            • Profile picture of the author ravi2011
              Originally Posted by SteveJohnson View Post

              No, that will NOT work. Word embeds special control characters that the WP database doesn't know how to handle.

              You can, as someone already suggested, write your post in a plain text editor like Notepad, then copy/paste into the WP editor.

              OR you can use the 'Paste from Word' button in the editor. It has a 'W' symbol on it; you'll find it after you've clicked the 'Kitchen Sink' button on the editor. Copy to your clipboard from Word, click the button, then paste in the popup window.
              Thanks for you reply. But I have around more than 170 posts in my site and i am getting this problem in most of the posts. Should I edit all the posts which are showing question marks???
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              • Profile picture of the author David V
                Originally Posted by ravi2011 View Post

                But I have around more than 170 posts in my site and i am getting this problem in most of the posts. Should I edit all the posts which are showing question marks???
                This is tricky...
                You can easily search and replace characters/text/etc... in the database.
                The problem is with the single somewhat normal looking characters such as the "?".

                If you did a search and replace just for a single "?" it could cause an issue.

                With that said, you can do a search and replace, just make sure the characters you are replacing are unique so there's no chance that character should exist somewhere, otherwise you'll be changing things you don't want to.

                Here's a free WP plugin you can try. WordPress › Search and Replace « WordPress Plugins

                BACKUP the website/assets/and database before you do anything!
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    • Profile picture of the author ravi2011
      Originally Posted by Big Squid View Post

      These are formatting errors when trying to handle special characters. Are you perhaps writing your post in Word, and then copy & pasting into WP?
      Yes . I write my posts in MS word and after writing ,i paste it to wordpress.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sue McDonald
    If you want to take the formatting out copy and paste it into notepad and notepad will strip any formatting.
    Just correct any errors you have and re post to Wordpress.
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  • Profile picture of the author capsoon
    Originally Posted by ravi2011 View Post

    Hi Warriors,I want your help. I am getting some question mark in diamond shape in my wordpress posts since 2-3weeks. I am not able to publish a new post because of this problem. Please help me how can i resolve this problem.

    Questions marks in diamond shape are appearing like this----.>>>
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    Try to change encoding for pages and feeds is UTF-8.

    Go to WordPress Admin -> Settings -> Reading -> Encoding for pages and feeds = UTF-8 and try to post again.

    If questions maks still shown.You can try to change theme and Test Post again.sometime your theme may have a problem about encoding files.
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisMoon
    Write articles in notepad++ and make sure your WP site template is using UTF-8
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