Automatically adds a non-breaking space ( ) in the content.
As of April 2026, Automatic NBSP is a WordPress nbsp plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 13 reviews. It has been downloaded 14K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 11% this week. Top alternative: Empty Paragraph for TinyMCE Editor.
Support typographic rules in Polish and Czech
Moves conjunctions, prepositions, etc. to the new line. ( sierotki )
Support punctuation marks in French
Adds a non-breaking space before punctuation marks as ! ? ; % « »
How it works?
The plugin automatically adds HTML entity ( non-breaking space ) after selected words or phrases. E.g. ‘Mr. Someone’ should be ‘Mr. Someone’. Works with:
You can create your own list of words/phrases or import our proposals.
Custom contents
You can use the function <?php auto_nbsp($content, $echo); ?> to add to the custom content. Use this in your code.
1. Param $content – (string) (required) Free text
2. Param $ec…
I was hunting for a mysteriously broken code block formatting, where some line breaks were stripped away. It turned out this plug-in was the cause. Share it seems not longer maintained. I would love to continue to use it.
I installed this plugin mainly to auto-add non-breakable space after prepositions. This works well. I also appreciate the easy settings page of this plugin.
However, there are many things which could be done better:
after the customizable vocabulary words and before preset punctuation marks. I’d be glad if both lists were customizable. in more complicated situations, e.g. after numbers, especially ordinal ones (the German or Czech way).Hello,
While WordPress is at version 5, I don’t understand why it is still necessary to use a plugin to fix the problem of no break spaces before double height signs.
Fortunately Damian Gora developed Automatic NBSP and solved the problem.
Many thanks Damian for this great plugin, simple and efficient.
No bloatware, ads, no useless fields. Simple a usefull. GREAT. thank you
It does not work on WordPress 4.9.8. The developer has not responded here in almost 2 years. Either fix this thing or remove it!
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 5.1.22 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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