Get rid of curly quotes in your WordPress blog

If you’re a developer who often publishes code snippets on your website, you might have encountered the following annoying problem: someone points out that the code you posted doesn’t work. Why does that happen? It’s quite simple: WordPress by default replaces normal quotes with “smart quotes” and that is what breaks your code snippets.

In order to get rid of these curly quotes do the following:

1. Open your theme’s functions.php file. (* if it doesn’t exist, create one)
2. Paste the following code: <?php remove_filter('the_content', 'wptexturize'); ?>
3. Save the file, and

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