Observations on design, PDX haps, and beyond.

Rid your WordPress posts of those pesky orphans, widows, and unsightly un-smart quotes!

WP Typography is an easy-install plugin by KING­desk that gives you more control over:

• Hyphen­ation
• Spac­ing con­trol, includ­ing: glu­ing val­ues to units, widow pro­tec­tion, and forced inter­nal wrap­ping of long URLs & email addresses.
• Intel­li­gent char­ac­ter replace­ment, includ­ing smart han­dling of: quote marks ( “foo” ), dashes ( foo – bar ), ellipses ( … ), trade­marks ( ™ ), math sym­bols ( 1024×768 ), frac­tions ( ¹²⁄₂₃ ), and ordi­nal suf­fixes ( 3^rd )
• CSS hooks for styling: amper­sands (class “amp”), acronyms (class “caps”), num­bers (class “num­bers”), ini­tial sin­gle quotes (class “quo”), and ini­tial dou­ble quotes & guillemets (class “dquo”).

Thanks to Chelsea Otakan for sharing the plugin’s greatness at Portland’s WordPress nerd camp. And remember,

“An orphan has no past; a widow has no future”
or
“An orphan is left behind, where as a widow must go on alone.”

[via Wikipedia]

10/04/2010 | plugin, typography, Wordpress, WP Typography | Design, Web Nerdness | RSS | Respond | Trackback