Please pardon the intrusion. We are in the process of testing the bane of every developer’s existence – character encoding and special characters. I am talking about smart quotes “”, apostrophes ‘, braces [], brackets {}, parentheses () and ellipses … . WordPress uses wptexturize on some of these elements. We currently remove this filter… Continue reading
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Special characters, wptexturize and CCI Word
Please pardon the intrusion. We are in the process of testing the bane of every developer’s existence – character encoding and special characters. I am talking about smart quotes “”, apostrophes ‘, braces [], brackets {}, parentheses () and ellipses … . WordPress uses wptexturize on some of these elements. We currently remove this filter… Continue reading
Testing wptexturize, character encoding and promotional tools
Please pardon the intrusion. We are in the process of testing the bane of every developer’s existence — character encoding and special characters. I am talking about smart quotes “”, apostrophes ‘, braces [], brackets {}, parentheses () and ellipses … . WordPress uses wptexturize on some of these elements. We current remove this filter on headlines and… Continue reading
Weblog migration continues
Over the past two days, we’ve migrated at least a dozen weblogs to our new system. A number of blogs were consolidated giving us new blogs like: The Good Life , Overdrive , and Parenting . Work continues this week with Politics, George Bullard’s Blog, Henry Payne’s Sketchbook, The Photo Blog, Wine, and Lions. We’re looking forward to share these… Continue reading
Weblog Migration
The great weblog migration has begun. We kicked things off with this developer blog that my colleague, Aaron Olson named Source Code while we weren’t looking. (It’s okay Aaron it’s nerdy enough). Next came Covering The Bases , Tony Paul’s excellent baseball blog. Today I migrated The Pistons and Red Wings blogs and they’re looking pretty smooth thanks to Olson’s sweet themes.… Continue reading
Welcome to the new Detroit News blogs.
You are viewing the first of many changes that are coming down the pipeline for The Detroit News. Over the next few months we hope to roll out improvements to nearly all of our services to better highlight the content we create on a daily basis.