WordPress converting ‘ to ’ and – to –?

This is wptexturize which includes a number of other transforms too. You can disable wptexturize completely with add_filter( ‘run_wptexturize’, ‘__return_false’ ); which you can put in your child theme’s functions.php, or in a one-file plugin or similar. I can’t see a way to disable just these rules specifically.

What might cause two dates to appear on a blog post?

Some WordPress templates show the published and updated dates side by side. For example, https://bootscore.me/ does this and separates the two with a forward slash. If you want to fix this then in the child theme you override the date function. So with bootScore in particular you would take this function: function bootscore_date() { $time_string … Read more