Smart quotes

• bjtalbot

• February 25, 2014 at 3:02 am

You know how if you type straight quote marks into a regular field, WordPress will convert them into “smart quotes” (curly quotes)? Is there any way to get that same thing to happen in custom fields created by ACF?

• Elliot

• February 25, 2014 at 10:19 am

Hi @bjtalbot

I’m not sure if this will work, but I have a feeling that WP replaces the curly quotes when you output the content like so the_content().

If this is true (most likely), then you can get WP to format your custom field in the same way like this:

$value = get_field('field_name');
echo apply_filters('the_content', $value);

let me know if that works.

Thanks
E

• bjtalbot

• February 26, 2014 at 6:15 am

Thanks, I’ll give this a try and will let you know.

• bjtalbot

• February 27, 2014 at 7:30 am

It worked!

• jnicol

• February 11, 2015 at 11:41 am

If you want a more targeted approach, run the field through wptexturize (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wptexturize).

echo wptexturize(get_field('my_field'));

Although the_content filter works, in addition to wptexturize it runs your content through a bunch of other transformations that might be undesirable, wrapping it in paragraph tags for instance.

• bjtalbot

• February 12, 2015 at 1:28 am

Good to know, thanks!