Comments on: Help!! Why Is My Site Showing HTML Code For Characters In Posts? http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/ Updated daily with the latest news, tips, tweaks, social networking, wordpress tips & tweaks, windows optimization help and more. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Everton http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-3/#comment-149836 Everton Sat, 24 May 2008 19:50:37 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-149836 @Michael <br /><br />I think you've got it. I had to restore my database last Sunday so that's what is causing the problem. How do I fix? Do I have to do a find and replace in phpmyadmin for the offending characters, or is there a better solution?<br /> @Michael

I think you’ve got it. I had to restore my database last Sunday so that’s what is causing the problem. How do I fix? Do I have to do a find and replace in phpmyadmin for the offending characters, or is there a better solution?

]]> By: Everton http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-3/#comment-229058 Everton Sat, 24 May 2008 19:50:00 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-229058 @Michael I think you've got it. I had to restore my database last Sunday so that's what is causing the problem. How do I fix? Do I have to do a find and replace in phpmyadmin for the offending characters, or is there a better solution? @Michael I think you’ve got it. I had to restore my database last Sunday so that’s what is causing the problem. How do I fix? Do I have to do a find and replace in phpmyadmin for the offending characters, or is there a better solution?

]]> By: Zath http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-3/#comment-149827 Zath Sat, 24 May 2008 18:34:59 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-149827 That happened to my site about a year ago - not quite sure what caused it, but I'm pretty sure it happened after I upgraded Wordpress at some point.Never did find a fix - I just changed them back as I found them while doing work on the site - not at all a good way, but I think I've now got most sorted, still find the odd corruption here and there on older posts.Not much help to you given the number of posts you've got here, sorry man. Read Zath's latest blog post....<a href="http://www.zath.co.uk/save-jericho-campaign/" rel="nofollow">Save Jericho Campaign - Be Part of History!</a>>>> That happened to my site about a year ago – not quite sure what caused it, but I’m pretty sure it happened after I upgraded WordPress at some point.Never did find a fix – I just changed them back as I found them while doing work on the site – not at all a good way, but I think I’ve now got most sorted, still find the odd corruption here and there on older posts.Not much help to you given the number of posts you’ve got here, sorry man.

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]]> By: Zath http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-3/#comment-229057 Zath Sat, 24 May 2008 18:34:00 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-229057 That happened to my site about a year ago - not quite sure what caused it, but I'm pretty sure it happened after I upgraded Wordpress at some point.Never did find a fix - I just changed them back as I found them while doing work on the site - not at all a good way, but I think I've now got most sorted, still find the odd corruption here and there on older posts.Not much help to you given the number of posts you've got here, sorry man. Read Zath's latest blog post....<a href="http://www.zath.co.uk/save-jericho-campaign/" rel="nofollow">Save Jericho Campaign - Be Part of History!</a>>>> That happened to my site about a year ago – not quite sure what caused it, but I’m pretty sure it happened after I upgraded WordPress at some point.Never did find a fix – I just changed them back as I found them while doing work on the site – not at all a good way, but I think I’ve now got most sorted, still find the odd corruption here and there on older posts.Not much help to you given the number of posts you’ve got here, sorry man.

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]]> By: mlankton http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-149788 mlankton Sat, 24 May 2008 01:12:35 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-149788 funny, it almost looks like the type of corruption you sometimes see after a mysql dump and migrate to new server if you have a test install or server, try dumping the database and running it with a different theme and see if the problem still exists it may very well be a database level issue     Read mlankton's latest blog post....<a href="http://aventhusiast.com/audio/loudspeakers/emotiva-audio-erm-1-reference-monitor" rel="nofollow">Emotiva Audio ERM-1 Reference Monitor</a>>>> funny, it almost looks like the type of corruption you sometimes see after a mysql dump and migrate to new server
if you have a test install or server, try dumping the database and running it with a different theme and see if the problem still exists
it may very well be a database level issue
 
 

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]]> By: Michael Lankton http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-229056 Michael Lankton Sat, 24 May 2008 01:12:00 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-229056 funny, it almost looks like the type of corruption you sometimes see after a mysql dump and migrate to new server if you have a test install or server, try dumping the database and running it with a different theme and see if the problem still exists it may very well be a database level issue     Read mlankton's latest blog post....<a href="http://aventhusiast.com/audio/loudspeakers/emotiva-audio-erm-1-reference-monitor" rel="nofollow">Emotiva Audio ERM-1 Reference Monitor</a>>>> funny, it almost looks like the type of corruption you sometimes see after a mysql dump and migrate to new server
if you have a test install or server, try dumping the database and running it with a different theme and see if the problem still exists
it may very well be a database level issue
 
 

Read mlankton’s latest blog post….Emotiva Audio ERM-1 Reference Monitor>>>

]]> By: Everton http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-149776 Everton Fri, 23 May 2008 18:35:19 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-149776 <p>@jacky</p> <p> </p> <p>Yes, but only in the last couple of days</p> @jacky

 

Yes, but only in the last couple of days

]]> By: Everton http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-229055 Everton Fri, 23 May 2008 18:35:00 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-229055 @jacky   Yes, but only in the last couple of days @jacky
 
Yes, but only in the last couple of days

]]> By: Jacky Supit http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-149773 Jacky Supit Fri, 23 May 2008 17:40:18 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-149773 did this start to happen after you have new design here? Read Jacky Supit's latest blog post....<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Lifewg/~3/296445153/three-columns-art-blogger-template" rel="nofollow">Three Columns Art Blogger Template</a>>>> did this start to happen after you have new design here?

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]]> By: Jacky Supit http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-229054 Jacky Supit Fri, 23 May 2008 17:40:00 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-229054 did this start to happen after you have new design here? Read Jacky Supit's latest blog post....<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Lifewg/~3/296445153/three-columns-art-blogger-template" rel="nofollow">Three Columns Art Blogger Template</a>>>> did this start to happen after you have new design here?

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]]> By: Everton http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-149755 Everton Fri, 23 May 2008 10:21:08 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-149755 <p>@martin</p> <p> tried removing and adding.....</p> @martin

tried removing and adding…..

]]> By: Everton http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-229053 Everton Fri, 23 May 2008 10:21:00 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-229053 @martin tried removing and adding..... @martin

tried removing and adding…..

]]> By: Martin http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-149754 Martin Fri, 23 May 2008 10:17:13 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-149754 have you tried adding them ;) Read Martin's latest blog post....<a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/23/firefox-referrer-control/" rel="nofollow">Firefox Referrer Control</a>>>> have you tried adding them ;)

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]]> By: Martin http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-229052 Martin Fri, 23 May 2008 10:17:00 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-229052 have you tried adding them ;) Read Martin's latest blog post....<a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/23/firefox-referrer-control/" rel="nofollow">Firefox Referrer Control</a>>>> have you tried adding them ;)

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]]> By: Everton http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-149753 Everton Fri, 23 May 2008 09:58:42 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-149753 @Jacky

 

 

The problem was there before adding MCEComments.  I’ve just tried disabling other plugins I’ve added recently though, with no joy.

]]> By: Jacky Supit http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-149752 Jacky Supit Fri, 23 May 2008 09:49:12 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-149752 have you tried to deactivate this MCEcomments plugin before? Try to deactivate it, and then edit your post (fix it) and then save it again. and see the result hope it works Read Jacky Supit's latest blog post....<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Lifewg/~3/296445153/three-columns-art-blogger-template" rel="nofollow">Three Columns Art Blogger Template</a>>>> have you tried to deactivate this MCEcomments plugin before?
Try to deactivate it, and then edit your post (fix it) and then save it again. and see the result
hope it works

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]]> By: Jacky Supit http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-229051 Jacky Supit Fri, 23 May 2008 09:49:00 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-229051 have you tried to deactivate this MCEcomments plugin before? Try to deactivate it, and then edit your post (fix it) and then save it again. and see the result hope it works Read Jacky Supit's latest blog post....<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Lifewg/~3/296445153/three-columns-art-blogger-template" rel="nofollow">Three Columns Art Blogger Template</a>>>> have you tried to deactivate this MCEcomments plugin before?
Try to deactivate it, and then edit your post (fix it) and then save it again. and see the result
hope it works

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]]> By: Everton http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-149748 Everton Fri, 23 May 2008 09:06:17 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-149748 @Martin

They weren’t there.  This is driving me crazy

]]> By: Martin http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-149747 Martin Fri, 23 May 2008 08:43:28 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-149747 Wordpress has troubles during upgrade if you use a new wp-config file. To fix this issue delete (or put // before) the following two lines define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8'); define('DB_COLLATE', ''); Read Martin's latest blog post....<a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/23/ultimate-defrag/" rel="nofollow">Ultimate Defrag</a>>>> WordPress has troubles during upgrade if you use a new wp-config file. To fix this issue delete (or put // before) the following two lines

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

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]]> By: Martin http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-229050 Martin Fri, 23 May 2008 08:43:00 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-229050 Wordpress has troubles during upgrade if you use a new wp-config file. To fix this issue delete (or put // before) the following two lines define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8'); define('DB_COLLATE', ''); Read Martin's latest blog post....<a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/23/ultimate-defrag/" rel="nofollow">Ultimate Defrag</a>>>> WordPress has troubles during upgrade if you use a new wp-config file. To fix this issue delete (or put // before) the following two lines

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

Read Martin’s latest blog post….Ultimate Defrag>>>

]]> By: Everton http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-149745 Everton Fri, 23 May 2008 08:31:59 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-149745 <p><a href="../../17/may-2008-wordpress-plugins-used-on-this-site" title="html characters" rel="nofollow">good example.</a></p> <p>When I first did the post it wasn't like this</p> good example.

When I first did the post it wasn’t like this

]]> By: Everton http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-229049 Everton Fri, 23 May 2008 08:31:00 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-229049 <a href="../../17/may-2008-wordpress-plugins-used-on-this-site" title="html characters" rel="nofollow">good example.</a> When I first did the post it wasn't like this good example.
When I first did the post it wasn’t like this

]]> By: John http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-149743 John Fri, 23 May 2008 08:24:49 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-149743 On this site or one of your others? Do you have an example?     Read John's latest blog post....<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusinessOpportunitiesAndIdeas/~3/296347246/the-top-100-business-blogs-readers-choice" rel="nofollow">The Top 100 Business Blogs - Readers Choice</a>>>> On this site or one of your others?
Do you have an example?
 
 

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]]> By: John http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/05/23/help-why-is-my-site-showing-html-code-for-characters-in-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-229048 John Fri, 23 May 2008 08:24:00 +0000 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/?p=3369#comment-229048 On this site or one of your others? Do you have an example?     Read John's latest blog post....<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusinessOpportunitiesAndIdeas/~3/296347246/the-top-100-business-blogs-readers-choice" rel="nofollow">The Top 100 Business Blogs - Readers Choice</a>>>> On this site or one of your others?
Do you have an example?
 
 

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