Apostrophe in Blog Title rendered #039; in email titles

I get the same thing.

Blog Title: Drew’s Blog
E-mail Subject: [Drew's Blog] Comment: “Fedora 12!”

Anyone know how to fix this?

GuyGallo,

This sounds like an issue with Alo Easymail. You might try asking on the forums there for a more timely answer.

I don’t think it’s Easymail. It happens (and happened before I installed Easymail) with the default mailer.

A fix here: Error with quotation marks: WordPress Themes.

Add
remove_filter ('bloginfo', 'wptexturize');
in functions.php

Nope. When I mail a backup to myself I’m still getting:

Screenwriter's Compass Database Backup

And ALO EasyMail sends the same for the blog title.

I also have “unfancy quote” add-in installed.

From what I can gather, magic_quotes might be on in your server’s php config. To find out, make a plain text file and call it phpinfo.php and put just this line in it:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

then put the file in the root of your server, and then go to that file with your web browser. Ssearch for magic_quotes. (If you get an error, that means your server company won’t allow phpinfo to run for security reasons.)

Possible complex fix to replace magic quotes at the server level: Double checking – I should turn off “magic quotes” – Open Blu Host

Has this issue been resolved? I’m having the same problem with my site Daven’s Journal.

I have not resolved this issue on my site. Whenever I get an announcement from the blog — new member or backup — the title has #039; in the title.

I have not tried songdogtech’s suggestion of seeing if this is a server level setting on yahoo.

magic_quotes are turned off in php on my server.
The filter fix is for theme related issues which is not what this is. This is an e-mail issue.

I can’t figure it out for the life of my myself. It just looks so unprofessional.

If anyone has a solution that’d be great.

Update: The problem has to do with how WordPress itself stores the Blog title in its database. It runs attribute_escape() on the value before it inserts it into the database. I think this is a mistake as from this point on the apostrophe is replaced with #039; in the database.

One solution is to manually edit the wp_options table’s blogname entry and replace the #039; with the ‘. This seems to fix it and doesn’t seem to break anything, however I haven’t done extensive testing on it but it seems to work for me.

I have also ran into the same issue with another plugin, Subscribe to comments, that one requires the modification of the source code as it sotres the value correctly but runs it through attribute_escape() upon retrieval from the database.

Update: This bug seems to have been fixed in WordPress 2.9

I am running 2.9 and my most recent “backup email” still has the #039; rather than an apostrophe.

I will try your manual fix.

Thanks for persisting, gtakacs.

Where is the “wp_options table” to manually edit?

I also continue to have this issue. Not fixed in 2.9.2