[Plugin: Live Blogging] Encoding issues

I am having the same problem. I am getting the html character codes in twitter. It happens if I use the visual or html editor in wordpress. The live blog entries look great on the post, but break in twitter.

thanks in advance for any help in this. I need this badly for an event on friday…

Is there a way to change what is sent to twitter to plain text or something?

Here are the examples.

Here is the blog post that looks great…
https://rrea.com/blog/nar-tech-edge-houston/

Here is one of the entries as a tweet.
https://twitter.com/rreadotcom/status/215546466834452480

Any thoughts?

I am seeing the same issues, by the way.

Is there an update for this issue?

No update that I have found. Here is an example I made where I was just careful not to use contractions…
https://rrea.com/blog/nar-tech-edge-vegas/

On line 1354 of live-blogging.php

$content = filter_var($post->post_content, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);

Change to
$content = filter_var($post->post_content, FILTER_SANITIZE_URL);

That will make quotes and other special characters appear correctly in tweets.

@vanamar Brilliant! thank you. Works perfectly!

Thanks! Works fin too!

I’ve made that change, and it works, however when the tweets are produced, there are no spaces between words.

Example – https://twitter.com/tvlive_extra/statuses/240465072932139009