I simply want to be able type, for instance, “7×12 house design”. WordPress, however, automatically changes x (alphabet) to × (<- this is a multiplication symbol special character): “7×12 house design”.
How can I disable this?
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Method 1
This is part of wptexturize, which includes a number of other transforms such as generating en- and em-dash symbols, ellipses and curly quotes. (Here’s the specific code for this, known as ‘multiplication symbol’ in the documentation but ‘times’ in the code.)
You can disable wptexturize completely with
add_filter( 'run_wptexturize', '__return_false' );
but there’s no built-in way to disable just this one wptexturize rule.
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