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wp-Typography

Improve your web typography with: hyphenation, space control, intelligent character replacement, and CSS hooks.

By pepe·Widows·Free
4.6(70 reviews)
·20K+ active installs·Updated 1 year ago
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As of April 2026, wp-Typography is a WordPress widows plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 70 reviews. It has been downloaded 523K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.6+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 21% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Widon't Part Deux.

4.6/570 reviews
20K+active installs
0%resolved
17 yearssince 2009

Overview

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.
Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

4.670 reviews
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59
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3 ★
0
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Recent Reviews

Great plugin!
by leanderbraunschweig·1 year ago

Thanks for providing this awesome typographic assistant – using it on a number of sites…! Well documented & actively maintained. Much appreciated 🙌

Cool plugin, easy to understand and use!
by nealumphred·1 year ago

Cool plugin for those who care about how their text looks on the “printed page,” including punctuation marks and hyphenization. Easy to understand and use.

Top!
by fade10·1 year ago

Sehr nützlich, funktioniert gut! Danke!

Very useful, works well! Thank you!

Essential
by carosch·2 years ago

Essential, especially for French.
A must! I hope it will be supported for a long time

  • This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by carosch.
Good PlugIn, unfortunately too much RAM
by woylon·3 years ago·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.

Download Trends

Today: 50Yesterday: 53This week: 252Period total: 21K

Compatibility

WordPress6.6+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5
PHP7.4+ required

Version Adoption

v5.11
73.3%
Other
14.0%
v5.9
12.7%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

5.11.0 – February 23, 2025

  • Bugfix: Don’t crash when a runtime requirement is not met.
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

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Plugin Info
Version
5.11.0
Last Updated
Feb 23, 2025
WP Requires
6.6+
Tested Up To
6.7.5
PHP Requires
7.4+
Active Installs
20K+
Downloads
523K+
Added
Jul 14, 2009
Business
Free

Tags

widowstypogrifytypographyhyphenationsmart quotes

Developer

P
pepe
3 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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