If you wonder why there are quotation marks where there should be an apostrophe, you are not alone, I am as puzzled as you.

It started when I “upgraded” to Wordpress 2.5.1 and I started to get a couple of lines of php warnings before the blog proper loaded. I also couldn`t access the blog`s admin area. I haven`t yet tracked down a proper solution but I found that if I replaced a file (widgets.php) with an older version, I could at least suppress the garbage and get into my admin area.

I also find now that editing an entry causes any apostrophe to “attract” another quotation mark so we end up with something like can”"”t when trying to write the abbreviated form of cannot.

I am temporarily getting around this by using a backward facing apostrophe like this ` which looks a bit awkward but better than a set of quotation marks.