Turn of smart quotes in WordPress. By default WordPress decides it wants to be as helpful as MS Word and turn all your quotes into curly bastards whether you want them or not. This page has instructions for calming the nonsense and a link to a plugin.
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In June 2000 I started blogging at peteashton.com and 10 years later in June 2010 I decided to stop. Blogging here, that is. I started a clean slate over on I Am Pete Ashton and maintain all manner of other web presences which are all listed here along with my contact details.
You probably came here via a Google search or from following a link on some old blog post somewhere. I hope what you find is useful in some way, though do check the publication date - it might be rather old now.
Thanks for your eyeballs.
Pete Ashton
wp-typogrify is another useful tool for sorting out WordPress’ typography.
http://blog.hamstu.com/2007/05/31/web-typography-just-got-better/
http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/13/being-kind-to-widows-and-orphans/
…might get you back to the beginning again with the curly quotes though!