Apply French typography rules to your WordPress content automatically.
As of April 2026, French Typo is a WordPress French plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 561 times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2025. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: JSM Non-Breaking Space (nbsp) for….
French Typo automatically applies French typography rules to your content. Choose regular or thin non-breaking spaces in Settings > French Typo and save to add spaces before punctuation (;, :, !, ?, %, «, »); until you do, punctuation spacing stays off. It replaces (c) with ©, (r) with ®, and (tm) / (TM) with ™. It can normalize common French ordinal abbreviations (1ère → 1re, 3ème → 3e, etc.) when that option is enabled (on by default until you save settings without it).
Rules apply to posts, pages, excerpts, taxonomies, archives, comments, widgets, menus, RSS feeds, REST API, custom fields, breadcrumbs, and SEO metadata. Most areas can be enabled or disabled in settings. SEO titles, meta descriptions, and Open Graph/Twitter strings from Yoast SEO, Rank Math, or SEOPress are not gated…
| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Full history for all versions: CHANGELOG.md on GitHub.
script / textarea / etc. as live tags).languages/french-typo.pot for those admin strings; dropped bundled fr_FR PO from the repo (translations on translate.wordpress.org).Plugin data sourced from WordPress.org. Analysis and metrics by PluginSift.