This plugin enables you to apply a text stroke to any piece of text on your template.
As of April 2026, WP CSS Text Stroke is a WordPress formatting plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2008. Last updated 18 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Advanced Editor Tools.
Text Stroke is the cool, nice-looking effect where black text characters are displayed on a white surrounding to increase readability on a non-uniform coloured background. For example text on Google Maps is displayed that way.
This plugin contains a piece of javascript code that’s called on window load and that enables you to get text stroking on any piece of text on your web page’s template. The trick is to repeat the text element 9 times in white color in the background, each instance being slightly moved from the original text position.
Detailed description is at http://blog.mapmyglobe.com/css-text-stroke/
| WordPress | 2.0+ requiredTested up to 2.3 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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