Soft Hyphenate

Add curated soft hyphens to content in WordPress

by Happy Prime · github.com/happyprime/soft-hyphenate · website

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/happyprime/soft-hyphenate/archive/refs/heads/trunk.zip

No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.

Readme github.com/happyprime/soft-hyphenate ↗

Add curated soft hyphens to content in WordPress.

Description

Soft Hyphenate adds soft hyphens (U+00AD) to titles and post content before they are displayed on the front end, based on a curated list of hyphenation suggestions.

This is useful for adjusting the visual appearance of long words that are not hyphenated by default.

All major browsers support the hyphens: auto; CSS property, which automatically hyphenates words as needed, but Chrome and Firefox do not apply hyphenation to capitalized words. This can create a situation, especially in headings, where long words bleed out of their container.

Once this plugin is activated, a settings page is available at Settings -> Soft Hyphenate in the WordPress admin that allows to you to manage a list of hyphenation suggestions.

Because browsers do handle most automatic hyphenation, this plugin does not attempt to use an algorithmic approach to hyphenation. If you're looking for a more comprehensive approach, you might consider using the wp-Typography plugin.

Changelog

1.0.0

Initial release.