This plugin will convert the characters pasted from any character set to a valid UTF-8 entities.
As of April 2026, WP Clean Characters is a WordPress html plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 3.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Shortcoder — Create Shortcodes for….
Copying and pasting content from the web or other documents can insert invalid characters into post content and create invalid RSS feeds. WP Clean Characters fixes this by converting those invalid characters into valid UTF-8 entities when saving a post. A feature is also included to go through your post archive and clean any invalid characters in those as well.
| WordPress | 2.9+ requiredTested up to 3.0. |
| PHP | false+ required |
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