Wordpress options text format

Question

Wordpress converts my theme options text with smart quotes.

I know that to remove problem from posts etc:

remove_filter('the_content', 'wptexturize');

remove_filter('the_excerpt', 'wptexturize');

remove_filter('comment_text', 'wptexturize');

But how to remove this effects when saving into Wordpress options api?

Answer 1

WordPress does not automatically texturize options. If you are using add_option(), update_option(), and/or get_option() then it should "just work".

Example:

//Add an option to the database
update_option('my_test_option','This is an option. Isn\'t it "special"?');

//Returns string: This is an option. Isn't it "special"?
echo get_option('my_test_option');

Answer 2

Use a function to replace the smart quotes (following is based on code from this plugin), in functions.php:

function wpse89095_untexturize( $text ) {
    $char_codes   = array( '‘', '’', '“', '”', '′', '″' );
    $replacements = array( "'", "'", '"', '"', "'", '"' );
    return str_replace( $char_codes, $replacements, $text );
}

Then filter your option before it's saved to the database, in functions.php:

function wpse89095_untexturize_option( $newvalue, $oldvalue ){
    $newvalue = wpse89095_untexturize( $newvalue );
    return $newvalue;
}
add_filter( 'pre_update_option_{OPTION}', 'wpse89095_untexturize_option', 10, 2 );

NB: replace {OPTION} with the name of the option you'd like to filter.