Title: cleaning posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# cleaning posts

 *  Resolved [tdturn2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tdturn2/)
 * (@tdturn2)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cleaning-posts/)
 * I’m creating custom pages, not from a template, but just using WP to allow the
   customer to make text changes. When I go to display a single post, it gives me
   all kinds of strange characters. For example, a space bar comes out as Â. Is 
   there a default WP function to call that will clean this up? I’ve searched high
   and low, and I guess I do not know the correct wording for this problem.
 * Here’s what I am currently using:
 *     ```
       <?php
          $post_id = 19;
          $queried_post = get_post($post_id);
          $content = $queried_post->post_content;
          $content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);
          $content = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $content);
          echo $content;
       ?>
       ```
   
 * Any help greatly appreciated.

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 *  Thread Starter [tdturn2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tdturn2/)
 * (@tdturn2)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cleaning-posts/#post-2820296)
 * Is there a better place on this forum to submit a question like this?
 *  Thread Starter [tdturn2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tdturn2/)
 * (@tdturn2)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cleaning-posts/#post-2820365)
 * The code is good, the errors I was getting is unrelated to this code.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [tdturn2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tdturn2/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cleaning-posts/#post-2820365)
 * Status: resolved

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