additional are showing in some of my menus

No, I was wrong. The plugin “Recent Posts Widget Extended” is showing the post headers, but the plugin “wp thypography” is the problem that shows these <span…>

They write on their support site:
“This plugin breaks post title links. What gives?
More likely than not, your WordPress theme is using an improper function to set the title attribute of your heading’s link. It is probably using the the_title() function, which delivers the post title after filtering. It should be using the_title_attribute() which delivers the post title before filtering. Change out this function throughout your theme when it is used inside of an HTML tag, and the problem should go away.”

OK. Here is the solution:
You have to switch off a feature in wp Typography which is the second at CSS classes: BLOCK LETTERS.

Problem solved.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by Ralf.

I’m not sure Rikard,
maybe this is a problem of wp-typography, but this is a regular option, so I guess it makes also some sense to use it.
Maybe it is a problem of wp-typography together with “Recent Posts Widget Extended”, which was not updated for a year. I say that because I only saw the problem within outputs of this widget.

Kind regards,
Ralf

Thanks Rikard,
you can close this one. I’m fine with how it’s working now.

Ralf