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It is possible to add subscript and superscript in a WordPress page title? I need to add pages with "H2O" in the title.

I have been searching, but cannot find anything with answers... only a few non-answered threads on wordpress.org forums.

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You can use markup in titles. H<sub>2</sub>O will work just fine. I would use H₂O with a real ₂ because markup will be stripped in title attributes and in feeds.

Note that WordPress will not create a pretty permalink for the correct character. The slug for my example will look like this: h2o-h%e2%82%82o.
You need my plugin Germanix URL to get h2o for both variants.

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Thanks. I had a DOH! moment. I was using a page template that didn't actually show the title and I thought <sub> </sub> was creating an error and displaying nothing... – Travis Pflanz Feb 7 at 1:13
...and thanks for the tip about HTML special characters. Definitely the way to go. – Travis Pflanz Feb 7 at 1:29
@TravisPflanz See my update with a note about the permalink problem. – toscho♦ Feb 7 at 1:34
My permalink did not do that. It is displayed as H<sub>2</sub>O. I did, however, add H2O to the "Redirection". – Travis Pflanz Feb 7 at 3:45
I just realized the subscript didn't show in my comment - My permalink did not do that. It is displayed as H2O with the 2 subscript. I did, however, add H2O to the "Redirection" plugin to point to H(subscript 2)O. This should work correctly, right? – Travis Pflanz Feb 7 at 4:18
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