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wp-Typography

Description

Improve your web typography with:

  • Hyphenation — over 70 languages supported

  • Space control, including:

    • widow protection
    • gluing values to units
    • forced internal wrapping of long URLs & email addresses
  • Intelligent character replacement, including smart handling of:

    • quote marks
    • dashes
    • ellipses
    • trademarks, copyright & service marks
    • math symbols
    • fractions
    • ordinal suffixes
  • CSS hooks for styling:

    • ampersands,
    • uppercase words,
    • numbers,
    • initial quotes & guillemets.

Screenshots

  • wp-Typography “General” settings page.
  • wp-Typography “Hyphenation” settings page.
  • wp-Typography “Intelligent Character Replacement” settings page.
  • wp-Typography “Space Control” settings page.
  • wp-Typography “Add CSS Hooks” settings page.

Installation

Requirements

wp-Typography has the following requirements:

  • The host server must run PHP 7.4.0 or later,
  • your installation of PHP must include the following PHP extensions (most do):
  • text must be encoded in UTF‐8.

FAQ

FAQs are maintained on the wp-Typography website.

Three questions come up so frequently, we will republish their answers here:

Will this plu­gin slow my page load­ing times?

Maybe. For best performance, use a persistent object cache plugin like WP Redis.

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.

If you are uncomfortable editing your theme’s code, you may alternatively go to the wp-Typography settings page in your admin panel and add h1 and h2 to the “Do not process the content of these HTML elements:” field. This will disable typographic processing within improperly designed page title links and page titles.

What are the privacy implications of using the plugin?

wp-Typography does not store, transmit or otherwise process personal data as such. It does cache the content of the site’s posts. If necessary, you can clear this cache from the plugin’s settings page.

Remember, many more FAQs are are addressed the wp-Typography website.

Reviews

June 4, 2024
Sehr nützlich, funktioniert gut! Danke! Very useful, works well! Thank you!
March 13, 2024
Very nice plugin, I hope it will be supported for a long time
November 7, 2022 1 reply
For a long time I wondered which plugin was consuming too much RAM on my WP installation. Through the Code Profiler I found out that THIS plugin is responsible for it. After disabling it, I suddenly had 40-50 MB more space in RAM. This is unacceptable, unfortunately! Too bad, this PlugIn is otherwise really good and does a great job. I have now solved the hyphenation by CSS and deleted this PlugIn.
November 3, 2022 1 reply
This has saved us a ton of trouble on our Swedish-language website. It’s simply amazing, and works great!
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Contributors & Developers

“wp-Typography” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“wp-Typography” has been translated into 7 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “wp-Typography” into your language.

Interested in development?

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Changelog

5.9.1 – January 22, 2023

  • Bugfix: Only apply filters to ACF fields returning strings to preserve type expectations for downstream code.

5.9.0 – January 21, 2023

  • Feature: wp-Typography is now compatible with PHP 8.1.
  • Feature: Improved Advanced Custom Fields support:
    • wp-Typography is now compatible with Advanced Custom Fields 6.
    • The return type array is now supported for most fields.
  • Change: PHP minimum version increased to 7.4.
  • Change: Prevent widows is now disabled by default.

5.8.1 – January 25, 2022

  • Bugfix: Whitescreen in Requirements class due to error in build process fixed.

5.8.0 – January 25, 2022

  • Feature: wp-Typography is now compatible with PHP 8.0.
  • Change: WordPress minimum version increased to 5.3.
  • Change: PHP minimum version increased to 7.2.
  • Change: Support for Internet Explorer 11 has been dropped.
  • Change: A fabulous new plugin icon designed by Johanna Amann.