Title: WordPress Editor adding junk characters.
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WordPress Editor adding junk characters.

 *  Resolved [bekar09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bekar09/)
 * (@bekar09)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-editor-adding-junk-characters/)
 * Hi,
 * I am facing this weird problem with the wordpress editor. After writing an article
   and saving it in draft, I see that a lot of junk characters have been added to
   the article. I have tried to remove them both in visual mode as well as in the
   html mode.
 * I even tried to disable the visual editor and save the draft, but that did not
   help. Please give me a clue as to what might be the reason for this.
 * Regards,
    Prasenjit.

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 *  Thread Starter [bekar09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bekar09/)
 * (@bekar09)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-editor-adding-junk-characters/#post-2159291)
 * I am getting the below junk malformed html in the beginning of the post:
 * > <<<span style=”text-decoration:underline;”></span>em>strong>
 * I even upgraded to WP 3.1.4 and still the problem persists.
 *  Thread Starter [bekar09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bekar09/)
 * (@bekar09)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-editor-adding-junk-characters/#post-2159305)
 * I even tried deleting those junk from phpmyadmin, but it automatically adds it
   back again. This is amazing.
 *  Thread Starter [bekar09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bekar09/)
 * (@bekar09)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-editor-adding-junk-characters/#post-2159314)
 * Ok. I think I figured out the problem. It was happening because of a plugin called
   EasyWpSeo which had admin side automatic text decoration.

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 * Last reply from: [bekar09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bekar09/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-editor-adding-junk-characters/#post-2159314)
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