If I’m allowed to answer my own question here: I found a way to stop the conversion of my html entities back to characters by using <?php esc_textarea( $text ) ?>, as detailed by the codex here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/esc_textarea. Not sure if this is the right way of doing it, but its working. My (snipped) metabox … Read more
It was https://wordpress.org/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/ plugin’s fault. There are some functions in it that have something to do with this, namely encode_shortcode_contents_slashed_noquickedit, encode_shortcode_contents_callback. Now I replaced it to https://wordpress.org/plugins/crayon-syntax-highlighter/ but by the time I confirmed it was the other plugin’s fault I had already written a solution. function wpse190396_insert_post_data($data, $postarr){ if($postarr[‘filter’] == ‘db’ && ($data[‘post_type’] == ‘fix’ … Read more
Edit: Do you have <meta charset=”utf-8″ /> in your <head> tag? A user here fixed a similar problem with character encoding by adding this. There are actually many Google results that come up searching for utf-8 character encoding in wordpress. Also, does pasting the text into the HTML view of the editor and saving it … Read more