Have you had a situation when you wanted to use a special characters like the copyright symbol © on your website but didn’t know how to do that?
Characters like the Trademark Symbol ™ , or the Copyright Symbol ©, or maybe the Registered Trademark Symbol ®
Here are couple of super simple methods to find and insert special characters:
1. Copy and paste method
Just do a Google search and copy & paste the character! For example, Google the word “copyright symbol.” You will for sure see the © in the search results. Simply highlight it, copy (ctrl-c on PC, command-c on Mac), and paste that into your page/post editor of your WordPress site (ctrl-v on PC, command-v on Mac). Voalá!
2. “Special character” tool method
When you are in the WordPress post/page editor, you’ll see something like this:
(If you don’t see the “Special Character” button, click on the “Kitchen Sink” button to expand the toolbar.)
Just have your cursor where you want to insert a special character in the post/page editor, and click on the Special Character button to bring up this screen.
…And simply select the character you want to insert.
Watch this short video below that shows you how to do this!
Easy peasy!
You can also find and copy the copyright symbol in the character map of your computer, and set it to any size just as you can adjust font size. Just do a search on “character map? and you will find many interesting shapes and symbols etc. (As is also the case with “wingding” fonts though I’m not sure if they have the copyright symbol.)
Diana,
Great point! Thanks for sharing. And yes I love wingding fonts!
🙂
You can also use the alt + codes to do those symbols. alt 0169 = ©; alt 0174 + ® ; alt 0153 = ™ ; alt 0163 = £ ; alt 0190 – ¾; alt 00189 = ½ ;
alt 0188 = ¼ ; alt 0162 = ¢ ; alt 0176 = °
These are the ones I use most often but there are lots more also.
On my Imac, ALT + g gives you ©. Thanks to Nana to giving me the idea.
Thanks for that note about the keyboard shortcut for the mac
Thanks for sharing such a great content it was very helpful.