The « » mystery

Greetings, all -

I've made a lot of WP tweaks in my day, but this one's really got me stumped.

I'm setting up a site and the theme is displaying links to the previous and next posts down at the bottom of the comments page, like so:

« (previous post) (next post) »

I want to get rid of these entries. Normally, I'd just do an in-depth search for one of the double-arrow characters with Super Finder, which would pop up a bunch of pages, then eventually I'd nail down the culprit and delete the code.

Not counting binary files, like pics, a search for '«' or '»' yields:

— zero hits in the theme folder​

— zero hits in wp-admin​

— one hit in 'wp-includes' a JS file that wasn't it​

I also did a search for the raw HTML code for the two characters, as well as turning off all the plugins, so now I'm officially stuck.

Any thoughts, gentlemen?

 

Could you show us the page/theme/link where these characters are used ?

In the source you should be able to see how they are stored.
«
«
«
«



There might be other representations ...

 

Bingo! And much thanks. Someone had suggested the "«" (and #187) codes yesterday, but nothing popped up. A search for "«", however, popped up the two relevant lines in the theme, problem solved.

As an additional plus, I learned that the double-angle character is called a "guillemet".

So we've got that going for us.

Thanks again,
Doc