Orphans

Description

The Orphans plugin automatically improves the typography of your WordPress site by preventing single-letter or very short words—known as orphans—from appearing alone at the beginning of a line. By replacing the space after these words with a non-breaking space, the plugin ensures cleaner, more professional-looking text layouts, especially for languages like Polish where such typographic rules are important.

An orphan in typography is a short word (often a single character) left isolated at the beginning of a line, separated from the rest of the sentence. This is considered a composition error and can negatively affect readability and the visual appeal of your content.

Once activated, Orphans automatically processes your posts, pages, and other content post types, fixing orphaned words on the fly. You can customize its behavior through the settings panel found under Appearance > Orphans, or extend functionality with WordPress filters for advanced use cases.

Orphans is open source, actively maintained, and available on GitHub for those interested in contributing or extending its features.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Orphans plugin.

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Typography

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FAQ

Plugin works when viewing the content and does not modify your content.

Use orphan_replace filter. Example code:

$value = apply_filters(     'orphan_replace',     get_post_meta($post_id, 'meta_key', true ) );

Use orphan_replace filter. Example code:

$value = apply_filters( 'orphan_replace', 'any string' );

By default to using this plugin you must have manage_options capability, which usually means site administrator. If you want to allow manage Orphans by “Editors” then you need to use other capabilities, e.g. unfiltered_html. You can use iworks_orphans_capability filter:

add_filter('iworks_orphans_capability', 'my_orphans_capability'); function my_orphans_capability($capability) {     return 'unfiltered_html'; }

At the beginning of your block just add:

add_filter( 'orphan_skip_replacement', '__return_true' );

and at the end, to again turn on replacements:

remove_filter( 'orphan_skip_replacement', '__return_true' );

Please use iworks_orphan_terms filter. It is array of default orphans. You can remove, add or even replace whole array. For example, to remove words “oraz”, “na” and “”nie”, use code bellow:

add_filter( 'iworks_orphan_terms', 'remove_iworks_orphan_terms' ); function remove_iworks_orphan_terms( $terms ) {     $default_orphans_to_remove = array( 'oraz', 'na', 'nie', );     foreach( $default_orphans_to_remove as $value ) {         if ( $key = array_search( $value, $terms ) ) {             unset( $terms[ $key ] );         }     }     return $terms; }