Description
French Typo applies French typography rules to your content as it is displayed. Your text stays exactly as you wrote it in the editor — only the rendered output is enriched.
What it does:
- Adds non-breaking spaces before
: ; ! ? %and around« » - Replaces
(c)with©,(r)with®,(tm)/(TM)with™ - Optionally normalizes French ordinals:
1ère1re,3ème3e,n-ièmenième - Works across posts, pages, widgets, menus, comments, RSS, REST, ACF / Meta Box fields, and SEO output (Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress)
- On multilingual sites, can apply rules to French content only (Polylang and WPML auto-detected)
What it does not do:
- Touch your raw HTML, code blocks, scripts, styles, or
<textarea>content - Modify what’s stored in the database
Settings highlights
- Regular (
) or thin ( ) non-breaking spaces - Enable / disable each content area (title, content, excerpt, widgets, RSS, REST, etc.)
- Language restriction: off (default), auto French, or pick specific locales
Author & Credits
Jason Rouet
* Website: jasonrouet.com
* Email: bonjour@jasonrouet.com
* WordPress.org: profiles.wordpress.org/jaz_on/
You can support this project on Buy Me a Coffee or GitHub Sponsors.
This plugin is a fork of French Typo created by Gilles Marchand (master_shiva), completely rebuilt since March 2024 with the help of Jean-Baptiste Audras. Inspired by TypoFR, Orthotypo, and Consistency.
Screenshots
Plugin settings page
Installation
- Install through the WordPress plugins screen, or upload to
/wp-content/plugins/french-typo. - Activate the plugin.
- Configure in Settings > French Typo.
FAQ
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Does this plugin modify my content?
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No. The text saved in the database is never altered. French Typo intercepts the output just before display and adds the typography rules there. Deactivate the plugin and your content comes back unchanged.
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Regular or thin non-breaking spaces?
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Regular (
) is universally supported. Thin ( ) is typographically purer for: ;but may render too narrow or as a missing glyph on older fonts and browsers. -
Can I limit rules to French content only?
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Yes. In Settings > French Typo > Language restriction, choose Auto to apply only to
fr_*locales, or Custom to pick specific locales. Polylang and WPML are detected per post; otherwise the site locale is used. -
Will it run inside code blocks, scripts, or “?
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No. Typography is skipped inside
<script>,<style>,<pre>,<code>(nested),<textarea>, and embedded CSS (e.g. inline SVG). Gutenberg’s Verse block stays typographic unless it is also a Code block. -
Does it change English ordinals (`1st`, `2nd`) or non-standard forms like `1ème`?
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No. Only the French forms listed in the description are converted.
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My theme or editor already inserts non-breaking spaces. Will French Typo duplicate them?
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No (since 1.2.2). All non-breaking space variants —
, , , , , and literal U+00A0 / U+202F — are detected and collapsed to a single canonical entity.
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Contributors & Developers
“French Typo” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“French Typo” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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Changelog
Full history for all versions: CHANGELOG.md on GitHub.
1.2.3
- Fixed: HTML entities in plain-text titles (e.g.
Foo & Bar) had a narrow no-break space inserted before their trailing;, which downstreamesc_html()then re-encoded into visible&#038 ;(e.g. in Yoast breadcrumbs). Entity protection now runs on any text containing&, not only on text containing tags. (#10)
1.2.2
- Added: Language restriction modes (Disabled / Auto French / Custom) with Polylang and WPML auto-detection, falling back to
get_locale(). (#5) - Added: Reference French translation (
languages/french-typo-fr_FR.po). - Changed: Donate link migrated from Ko-fi to Buy Me a Coffee (
https://buymeacoffee.com/jasonrouet). - Changed: README —
fr.wordpress.orgupgraded to HTTPS. - Fixed: Duplicate non-breaking spaces with Elementor + Advanced Editor Tools — detects every NBSP variant (named/numeric/hex entities, literal U+00A0 / U+202F) and collapses runs into a single canonical NBSP. Idempotent across layered filters (
widget_text+the_content). Thanks to Guy Declercq for the report. (#8)