Title: Undo WordPress Default Formatting
Author: Mattiasgeniar
Published: <strong>January 21, 2012</strong>
Last modified: January 21, 2012

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Undo WordPress Default Formatting

 By [Mattiasgeniar](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mattiasgeniar/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/undo-wordpress-default-formatting.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/undo-wordpress-default-formatting/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/undo-wordpress-default-formatting/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/undo-wordpress-default-formatting/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/undo-wordpress-default-formatting/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/undo-wordpress-default-formatting/)

## Description

WordPress applies default text formatting that replaces characters such as ‘-‘, ‘–‘,
quotes, … to pretty HTML characters. This plugin was created to revert that back.
This is especially useful for tech-oriented blogs that need the original input because
they may contain commands that need to be executed.

## Installation

 1. upload the directory “undo_wordpress_default_formatting” to your wp-content/plugins
    directory
 2. activate the plugin from your WordPress ‘Plugins’ menu

## FAQ

  The characters get replaced to something else than my original, why is that?

WordPress changes a few characters to the same HTML entity character. I can not 
guess what the original character was, so I’m using a ‘best effort’ way of converting
the HTML character back to the original one. Sometimes, it’ll be wrong.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Undo WordPress Default Formatting” is open source software. The following people
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Mattiasgeniar ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mattiasgeniar/)

[Translate “Undo WordPress Default Formatting” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/undo-wordpress-default-formatting)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/undo-wordpress-default-formatting/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/undo-wordpress-default-formatting/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/undo-wordpress-default-formatting/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/undo-wordpress-default-formatting/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * First version of the Plugin, stable

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **14 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.3.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/undo-wordpress-default-formatting/)
 * Tags
 * [dash](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dash/)[replace](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/replace/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/undo-wordpress-default-formatting/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Mattiasgeniar ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mattiasgeniar/)

## Support

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