How to show a double dash —

[rogerp]

I have a lot of code that I need to show on my blog

This -- in wordpress is being translated into this -

I have read many posts and already added this to functions.php

remove_filter( 'the_title', 'wptexturize' );
remove_filter( 'the_content', 'wptexturize' );
remove_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'wptexturize' );

I also commented out these lines in wp-includes/formatting.php

//$dynamic[‘/—/’] = $em_dash;
//$dynamic[ ‘/(?<=^|’ . $spaces . ‘)–(?=$|’ . $spaces . ‘)/’ ] = $em_dash;
//$dynamic[‘/(?<!xn)–/’] = $en_dash;
//$dynamic[ ‘/(?<=^|’ . $spaces . ‘)-(?=$|’ . $spaces . ‘)/’ ] = $en_dash;

I am putting the code within SyntaxHighlighter, but it looks like wordpress is turning the double dash into a single dash

How do I stop it doing this!

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[AnitaC]

I think you need to add this to your functions.php to remove that.

add_filter('run_wptexturize', '__return_false');

See this document and this one.

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[rogerp]

Thanks for your reply, but that did not fix my issue

functions.php

/* Remove Double Dash

add_filter( 'run_wptexturize', '__return_false' );

*/

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Roger
https://www.rogerperkin.co.uk/
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[AnitaC]

Hi @rogerp since that's something related to WordPress itself and not your theme, you may want to post this question on the WordPress forums - https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/. Someone there may be able to answer that.

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