Getting ’ instead of an apostrophe(') in PHP

Question

I\'ve tried converting the text to or from utf8, which didn\'t seem to help.

I\'m getting:

\"It’s Getting the Best of Me\"

It sho

Answer 1

If you're here because you're experiencing issues with junk characters in your WordPress site, try this:

1. Open wp-config.php

2. Comment out define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8') and define('DB_COLLATE', '')

   /** MySQL hostname */
   define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
   
   /** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
   //define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
   
   /** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
   //define('DB_COLLATE', '');