Just so that I will never forget it again, because this now has been the second time that I had to look it up:

For a software manual, I made a paragraph style “Program Code” that was derived from “Preformatted Text”. The first thing I tried typing in was

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 GOTO 10

LibreOffice 4 (like OpenOffice) has “Smart Quotes” enabled by default, and as I was typing them in it began replacing the double-quotes with complex typographic quotation marks according to my document’s Locale. For programming language text this is inappropriate.

The option “Extras → Auto Correct Options → Smart Quotes” can only be turned off on an all-or-nothing basis, but for natural language texts I would like to keep the behavior activated.

The solution:

Modify your paragraph style for code, for example type <F11> for the styles list, choose the paragraph styles tab, right-click on the style “Preformatted Text” and choose “Modify”.

In the “Font” tab, below the “Style” selection box, you see a dropdown menu “Language”. Set this to “None” and click “Ok”.

From then on, “Auto Correct” will no longer apply “Smart Quotes” to that style.

When using WordPress you do not want visitors to be tracked by metadata-merchands like Google, right?

Here are two things I found worth mentioning:

• Do not install “Simple Lightbox”. It loads an (ugly) font called “Yayone Kaffeesatz” from Google without offering an admin option to turn off that behavior.
• Do install “Disable Google Fonts” to disable the loading of “OpenSans” from Google when using WP admin.

Dudes, seriously. I am working on my “Privacy Policy” for this website, want to include a statement as simple as “this website will not track you”, and you riddle WordPress with such booby-traps?