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Created February 28, 2013 09:36
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SQL Statement Replace Smart Curly Quotes with Regular Quotes in WordPress. I was migrating an old wp site with a ton of content I noticed a lot of curly quotes / smart quotes and the curly single quotes. My OCD hates that and it's not proper and looks bad to bots so I wanted to batch change them all to regular ascii quotes. This statement handle…
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UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(replace(replace(post_content, '“', '"'), '”', '"'), '’', '''');
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Thanks. It actually kinda grieves me to make use of this; "correct" typography uses curly quotes, but in my case a self-hosted search engine chokes on them.

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