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Question

Wordpress to Facebook: Wordpress title with an apostrophe becomes a string of "’"

  • August 28, 2023
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edwardatx

I saw previous posts about apostrophes in WordPress posts turning into ’ when a Zap creates a post on a Facebook page. Similarly, I am having hyphens turn into ‘ on the Facebook post.

 

This Zapier community post indicates a bug fix was on the way. Has that been resolved? The starter edition of Zapier won’t let me use the Text Formatter without upgrading to the premium plan.

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  • ken.aZapier Staff
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  • August 29, 2023

Hi there @edwardatx,

Welcome to the Community! 🎉

After investigating, it appears that this issue arises from WordPress when a "dash" is included in the article title, causing WordPress to return specific HTML code. You can find more details in this WordPress community thread: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/8211-is-in-title-instead-of-a-dash/

Similarly, &#8216 behaves the same way, but corresponds to a different punctuation mark.

On another note, our Starter plan supports the use of Formatter by Zapier, as highlighted on our Plans & Pricing page:

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Unfortunately, the only solution I can suggest from our side is to utilize the "Convert HTML to Markdown" function in Formatter by Zapier to remove the code.

Hopefully, this helps!

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