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The Wordpress.com post editor has an annoying habit of inserting the   character in posts. This wouldn't be a problem if it inserted it appropriately, or even consistently. This is, alas, not the case; as far as I can tell, there's no pattern. It'll go for weeks at a time, barely using one; then filling a post with dozens of these things.

Sure, I could get BBEdit to strip these out, but is it possible to disable this in the first place? Even better, is it possible to set things up so that posts I get from other writers get these stripped out? (My guess, based on how their format tags fall, is that most of them use the visual editor.) Or am I just gonna have to tough this out until the site gets big enough to warrant a proper Wordpress.org installation?

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Try wrapping your posts in a div tag, it won't affect the layout and I found that helps when WP tries to add characters to my posts

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Seems to be working; I've done this with several posts, some with a decent amount of HTML formatting, some not, and it's not inserting those NBSP's. Thanks! – neilfein Mar 1 at 20:36
Just to follow up: I've been doing this for the last several weeks (three posts a week) and it works almost all of the time. Thanks again for the tip! – neilfein Apr 18 at 1:57
Glad I was able to help. I struggled with WordPress adding characters and changing the format of posts a few years back and this is by far the simplest way to fix the formatting. – Anagio Apr 18 at 11:39
I'm sorry to say that this has stopped working, over the last week. Maybe it's still working for others? – neilfein May 2 at 3:14
...and now it's working again. – neilfein May 12 at 19:18
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