Title: WP Clean Characters
Author: prettyboymp
Published: <strong>September 7, 2010</strong>
Last modified: April 17, 2014

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used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# WP Clean Characters

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

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-clean-characters.0.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-clean-characters/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-clean-characters/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-clean-characters/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-clean-characters/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-clean-characters/)

## Description

Copying and pasting content from the web or other documents can insert invalid characters
into post content and create invalid RSS feeds. WP Clean Characters fixes this by
converting those invalid characters into valid UTF-8 entities when saving a post.
A feature is also included to go through your post archive and clean any invalid
characters in those as well.

## Installation

 1. Upload the `wp-clean-chars` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

  What if I’m not using UTF-8 Encoding

This plugin won’t make any changes to your content if your site’s encoding is not
set to UTF-8.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“WP Clean Characters” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

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

[Translate “WP Clean Characters” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-clean-characters)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 0.1.0

 * Initial Release

## Meta

 *  Version **0.1.0**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.9 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.0.**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-clean-characters/)
 * Tags
 * [entities](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/entities/)[html](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/html/)
   [utf-8](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/utf-8/)[valid](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/valid/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-clean-characters/advanced/)

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## Contributors

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

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-clean-characters/)

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