Strange Characters Appearing On Your Blog?

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Fixing The Strange Characters On Your Posts

Have you suddenly got strange characters appearing on your blog posts? I did, mainly the Â, and at first I thought I had been hacked. Thankfully that proved to not be the case. So I just edited all the strange characters out.

Unfortunately, that’s when I noticed that all my posts were infected, and there was no way I was going to edit all those posts.

That’s when I turned to Google to find out if there was a solution. As usual there were heaps of solutions some of which were quite over the top. It took some time but I finally came across a blog post that had a simple solution.

The blog post was called How To Fix The Character Encoding Problem In WordPress?

Once I applied the solution, which was a simple edit of the wp-config.php file, the problem went away. I’m not sure why these strange characters started appearing. I know it’s not the theme because I use the same theme on all my blogs. I’m pretty sure it’s not the host either, because I have other blogs hosted with them.

Maybe a plugin? Anyway, it doesn’t really matter anymore because I don’t have that problem any more. 🙂