Ever wondered how popular sites add trademark ™, copyright ©, registered ®, or currency characters into their articles? Recently one of our users asked us if there was an easy way to add special characters into WordPress posts and pages. Since these characters are not found on an average keyboard, it makes it difficult for beginners to to use them. In this article, we will show you how to add special characters in WordPress posts.
Adding Special Characters Using WordPress Visual Editor
WordPress comes with a built-in WYSIWYG visual editor to write posts and pages. It’s a nice tool for beginners to write their articles without writing any HTML or CSS (see our 14 tips for mastering the visual editor). It also has a button which allows you to add special characters anywhere in your WordPress posts or pages.
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First you need to click on the kitchen sink button. This will expand a second row of formatting options where you should see the Special Characters button.
Clicking on special characters button will bring up a pop-up window showing some commonly used special characters. It has currency symbols, trademark, copyright, registered signs, mathematical symbols and signs.
Now you need to just click on the symbol or character you want to use, and it will be added in your post.
Adding Special Characters Using Unicode HTML Entities
Unlike Visual Editor, the text editor in WordPress does not have a special characters button. This means you will have to write the HTML entity code to add special characters.
Each character has an HTML entity number assigned to it. For example, 1 has HTML entity number 1. Same goes for just about any character in almost any language. However, remembering these HTML entity numbers is not an easy task.
To solve this problem, most commonly used special characters have HTML entity names. These names are easy to remember due to their similarity to the real word used for these characters. For example, copyright sign has HTML entity name copy, trademark uses trade, and registered symbol uses reg as HTML entity name.
To add these signs you need to append them with an ampersand sign & and end with a semicolon. See the examples below:
© = ©
™ = ™
® = ®
€ = €
To find out the HTML entity for any character or symbol, you can refer to the character entity reference chart on W3.org website.
We hope this article helped you add special characters in WordPress posts.
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This symbol which I’m seeking is: in a square box, in the square box is a almost complete circle, with a tiny line attached to the right side of the almost complete circle. This is found in the WordPress.com where the heading: “Subscription Management” and have 5 sites. The last one on the list is called DF Blog and prior to these words is a symbol as mentioned above. Now the others have a choice of weekly, /immediate “under delivery frequency”, but for DF Blog it’s blank and not given the chance to state my choice. Could you possibly help me in this matter? Monday, July 31, 2017 @ 1:18 pm. Waiting patiently for your response. Thank you for taking the time to read this email.
I never have an issue adding the TM within a post, it’s the Blog and Post titles where they will not show up. Any suggestions?
So simple! Thank you for having this free, handy tool available for people like me…starting a professional site, learning step by step.
How can you bring up special characters on the WordPress app?
Could you please do a tutorial on added a special Characters?
I can code unicode to my blog, but not everyone can view these. I can on my pc, but on my phone I don’t see them, for example.
It would be great to know how to display them to all site users.
Thanks, Justin
Either the font or OS you are using does not support the rupee character.
I have already mailed to WP team to update support for Rupee character. What is the probability of it being updated?
On a Mac it’s easy, press ctrl+cmd+space for emoticons and special characters (scroll right for the special character options).
On Windows it isn’t easy, but it is possible using the Character Map tool. I’ve never used Windows 8 but in Windows 7 and below it’s usually in Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools. Use it to copy/paste characters into any application.
Almost all special characters can be added in WP post but I want to add the official symbol of Rupee on my blog How can I add it? Even if I copy the symbol from Wikipedia and paste it, it won’t render. Help?