For those of you wondering how I got the heart in the post title “I ♥ Prints“, I have created my own cheat sheet of special characters for this purpose. WordPress supports special characters, but it falls victim of it’s own attempt to fix and correct things. It is possible write special characters in all fields in html mode (like when using safari). However, once a post is created, WordPress’ edit mode converts the special characters back. Since my chart includes some characters that might be interpreted as html code, I had to keep my chart on a text file so that I can copy/paste into my browser whenever I have to edit this post. Not an easy thing to do when yo edit a lot, but worth it in some instances where a heart says it all.
Instructions
Find the symbol you want, in this case “♥“, and copy the HTML code for that symbol. For hearts it is “♥“. Then paste “♥” into your title, excerpt or post field. If you use a visual html tool like the FireFox or ecto, you need to go to html mode, paste the code and switch back to rich text.
Special Characters HTML Code
‘ ‘ left single quote
’ ’ right single quote
‚ ‚ single low-9 quote
“ “ left double quote
” ” right double quote
„ „ double low-9 quote
† † dagger
‡ ‡ double dagger
‰ ‰ per mill sign
‹ ‹ single left-pointing angle quote
› › single right-pointing angle quote
♠ ♠ black spade suit
♣ ♣ black club suit
♥ ♥ black heart suit
♦ ♦ black diamond suit
‾ ‾ overline, = spacing overscore
← ← leftward arrow
↑ ↑ upward arrow
→ → rightward arrow
↓ ↓ downward arrow
™ ™ trademark sign
“" double quotation mark
& & ampersand
< < less-than sign
> > greater-than sign
[ left square bracket
] right square bracket
– – en dash
— — em dash
nonbreaking space
¡ ¡ inverted exclamation
¢ ¢ cent sign
£ £ pound sterling
¤ ¤ general currency sign
¥ ¥ yen sign
¦ ¦ or &brkbar; broken vertical bar
§ § section sign
¨ ¨ or ¨ umlaut
© © copyright
ª ª feminine ordinal
« « left angle quote
¬ ¬ not sign
­ soft hyphen
® ® registered trademark
¯ ¯ or &hibar; macron accent
° ° degree sign
± ± plus or minus
² ² superscript two
³ ³ superscript three
´ ´ acute accent
µ µ micro sign
¶ ¶ paragraph sign
· · middle dot
¸ ¸ cedilla
¹ ¹ superscript one
º º masculine ordinal
» » right angle quote
¼ ¼ one-fourth
½ ½ one-half
¾ ¾ three-fourths
¿ ¿ inverted question mark
À À uppercase A, grave accent
Á Á uppercase A, acute accent
  uppercase A, circumflex accent
à à uppercase A, tilde
Ä Ä uppercase A, umlaut
Å Å uppercase A, ring
Æ Æ uppercase AE
Ç Ç uppercase C, cedilla
È È uppercase E, grave accent
É É uppercase E, acute accent
Ê Ê uppercase E, circumflex accent
Ë Ë uppercase E, umlaut
Ì Ì uppercase I, grave accent
Í Í uppercase I, acute accent
Î Î uppercase I, circumflex accent
Ï Ï uppercase I, umlaut
Ð Ð uppercase Eth, Icelandic
Ñ Ñ uppercase N, tilde
Ò Ò uppercase O, grave accent
Ó Ó uppercase O, acute accent
Ô Ô uppercase O, circumflex accent
Õ Õ uppercase O, tilde
Ö Ö uppercase O, umlaut
× × multiplication sign
Ø Ø uppercase O, slash
Ù Ù uppercase U, grave accent
Ú Ú uppercase U, acute accent
Û Û uppercase U, circumflex accent
Ü Ü uppercase U, umlaut
Ý Ý uppercase Y, acute accent
Þ Þ uppercase THORN, Icelandic
ß ß lowercase sharps, German
à à lowercase a, grave accent
á á lowercase a, acute accent
â â lowercase a, circumflex accent
ã ã lowercase a, tilde
ä ä lowercase a, umlaut
å å lowercase a, ring
æ æ lowercase ae
ç ç lowercase c, cedilla
è è lowercase e, grave accent
é é lowercase e, acute accent
ê ê lowercase e, circumflex accent
ë ë lowercase e, umlaut
ì ì lowercase i, grave accent
í í lowercase i, acute accent
î î lowercase i, circumflex accent
ï ï lowercase i, umlaut
ð ð lowercase eth, Icelandic
ñ ñ lowercase n, tilde
ò ò lowercase o, grave accent
ó ó lowercase o, acute accent
ô ô lowercase o, circumflex accent
õ õ lowercase o, tilde
ö ö lowercase o, umlaut
÷ ÷ division sign
ø ø lowercase o, slash
ù ù lowercase u, grave accent
ú ú lowercase u, acute accent
û û lowercase u, circumflex accent
ü ü lowercase u, umlaut
ý ý lowercase y, acute accent
þ þ lowercase thorn, Icelandic
ÿ ÿ lowercase y, umlaut
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Stars use number codes:
Black Star: ★ is ★
White Star: ☆ is ☆
how do you do that smiley thats like:) but different
☆
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umm i tryed to put in ★ on my page but it wouldnt show up it only does it for name codes how do i fix that
☆
i want to put up a white heart on ma page but i dnt have the code can sum1 give it to me…
I tried to put a ★ on my page but it wouldn’t show up, it only does it for name codes how do i fix that? Please give me a name code foe a star so I may use it on my myspace. Thank you!
none of the codes for the stars are working in my name. they all just change after I save it into a different number.
I AM LOOKING FOR THE SPECIAL CHARACTER FOR THE STAR AS WELL BUT NOT THE ASTRIC PLEASE. IF YOU REALLY KNOW THE DARN ANSWER FOR THIS THEN PLEASE SEND IT MY WAY BUT IT HAS TO COME UP BECAUSE I TRIED THOSE CODES ON THIS PAGE AND NONE WORKED FOR ME. THIS IS FOR THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WANTING THE FACE.
HERE IS THE FACE AND TRUST ME IT WON’T COME UP AS A BOX. JUST COPY IT AND PASTE IT ANYWHERE. ☺