Weird characters/encoding in html output

  • Resolved Ronnie55

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    3 years, 11 months ago

    I’m confused and hoping for a bit of help. After updating Yoast plugin today, words with characters such as an apostrophe didn’t display correctly.

    For example, the word “won’t” was showing as:

    w o n & # 0 3 9 ; t

    (But without spaces)

    I restored a previous file/database backup (after deleting everything in public_html, which my host advised).

    And I thought this fixed it. It did, in my WordPress editor (I use classic editor). And in the actual user-facing web page.

    But I noticed in Google Chrome when I view a blog post, right click, and select “view source”, the source code still has the weird characters.

    Should I be concerned? I don’t see it when inspecting other blogs/competitors. I’m worried about if this is normal and whether Google can “read” it (I rely heavily on SEO and search traffic).

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