Plugins: Titles Hyphenation

Plugins: Titles Hyphenation

orphans; widows; balanced titles

We all know about HTML non-breaking space “ ” space character, that prevents an automatic line break at its position.

About soft-hyphens

Why “­” is favorite and better than “­” or “”? Because, Google treats words with “­” like one word, as it should, unlike with “­”

Source: Soft hyphen in HTML

Hyphenation in PHP and WordPress

WordPress tip: Headings with hyphenation and breaking points

I believe it is properly displayed when used in titles as read here: Soft Hyphen in Page Title

We can also code it to be inserted automaticaly using:

Amazing plugin for Wordpress joppuyo/syllable-hyphenator: Server-side hyphenation for WordPress with Syllable library. that uses PHP library vanderlee/phpSyllable which supports almost any language including Serbian in both Cyrillic and Latin script: languages in TeX hyphenation patterns

There is even more comprehensive plugin using same library is wp-Typography plus much more.


Typographic Widows · BinaryMoon/wp-toolbelt Wiki by inserting a non-breaking-space ( ) between the last two words in the title.


End of Typographic Widows is a technique to prevent single-word lines at the end of paragraphs, using new text-wrap:balance or text-wrap:pretty

date 10. Oct 2022 | modified 10. Jun 2024
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