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How to Add Special Characters to WordPress Pages & Posts

How to Add Special Characters to WordPress Pages & Posts

Depending on the kind of content you want to create, you may sometimes find yourself in the need of special characters for your website. It could be a ®, ©, ™, or a simple >, <, and characters alike.

Most keyboards don’t contain special characters keys, though, so you need to add them on your own.

In this article, we’ll show you how to add special characters to your WordPress pages and posts without breaking a sweat. The methods we’ll cover are:

Let’s kick things off with the Classic Editor.

How to Add Special Characters with WordPress Classic Editor

If you’re still using the Classic editor in WordPress, this is how you go about adding special characters.

For starters, open a new or an already existing page or a post where you wish to add symbols. Make sure you have the visual editor tab active. Then, find the Toolbar Toggle in the visual toolbar and click on it to see additional options in the second row .

Toolbar Toggle button

And right there, in the second row, you’ll find the Special Character button.

Special Character button

By clicking this button, a new window will pop up on your screen, so you can select special characters you wish to use. There’s a little bit of everything, from Greek letters to math symbols.

Select special characters you wish to use

Find the one you want to use and click on Close.

How to Add Special Characters with WordPress WPBakery

If you prefer to use the powerful drag-and-drop WPBakery page builder, to add special characters you must first click the Add Element button.

Add Element button

From the list of available elements and shortcodes, select the Text Box .

Select the Text Box

In Visual field, under General tab, click again on the Toolbar Toggle button. This will load the second row of options, among which is also the Special Character button.

Second row of options

Again, the Special Character window will pop up and you can select symbols you need for your content .

Select symbols you need

When you’re done, press the Close button.

How to Add Special Characters with Unicode HTML Entities

Another way of adding special characters to your pages and post is by using the Text editor. In that case, you’ll have to write HTML entity codes to create special characters.

Some characters are easy to memorize, e.g.  &quot; which stands for ‘’ (quotation mark), or &copy; which gives us ©. If you’re ever unsure which HTML entity to use in order to get a specific special character, you can use a special characters reference chart.

Add Special Characters Using HTML in the Classic Editor

This time round, as you open a new or an already existing page/post, it’s important to select the Text editor.

Select the Text editor

Here, you can enter an HTML entity you want.

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Add Special Characters Using HTML in WPBakery

Just like the first time round, click on Add Element and select Text Block. Now, we’re interested in the Text field under General tab. By selecting it, you’ll be able to start entering the desired HTML entities.

Start entering the desired HTML entities

How to Add Special Characters with Gutenberg

To add special characters in Gutenberg you need to use the Paragraph Block.

Paragraph Block

As you select the Paragraph Box, you’ll see the same toolbar the classic editor has. To enter special characters, click on the Special character button .

Gutenberg Special character button

Lastly, choose which symbol you wish to add to your page or a post .

Add Special Characters with Gutenberg

In Conclusion…

When it comes to special characters, sometimes you may need to use them for business and sometimes just for fun. Whatever their purpose, what matters is not to overdo it, as you surely don’t want to risk confusing people. Keep in mind who your audience is and adjust the use of special character accordingly.

We’ve showed you several ways how you can add special characters to your WordPress pages and posts. However, if you don’t feel like using any of these methods, you can also install one of the characters plugins. Browse the vast collection until you find the plugin that matches your requirements.

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