No Orphans in Titles

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1. Darmok Dec 24th at 5:43 am

   I love good typography too, so thank you!
2. timethief Dec 24th at 5:49 am

   Yes, orphan words in titles are annoying. Thanks a lot for adapting Widon’t from Shaun Inman this feature. 🙂
3. cait Dec 24th at 6:06 am

   this made me laugh…it’s that last line. and the creepy, creepy picture of oliver(?).

   thanks for looking out for those orphans for us. 🙂
4. cmerry Dec 24th at 6:13 am

   Yay thank you I am really bad about that sometimes I go on and on… 😛
5. Uncle Su Dec 24th at 6:17 am

   I don’t understand what this is actually doing…
6. Nicole Dec 24th at 6:17 am

   Nice! Thanks 🙂
7. raincoaster Dec 24th at 6:22 am

   Typographers and graphic designers all over the world thank you.
8. Smaran Dec 24th at 6:33 am

   I think I’ll have to experience this first-hand to understand how exactly it works. Does it look for phrases?
9. Wengistein Dec 24th at 6:42 am

   Harhar poor orphans. 😛 Though that was pretty annoying. Thanks for fixing it up. 🙂
10. Daijinryuu Dec 24th at 6:48 am

    Sweet.
11. storymode Dec 24th at 6:55 am

    I’m all about good style and typography myself. Nice addon! Thanks! ^^
12. yuE Dec 24th at 6:58 am

    and now we can truly be perfectionists!
13. girlfriday Dec 24th at 7:24 am

    Thanks. I like that you *fix* stuff so we don’t have to worry 🙂 ‘Specially at Christmas 😉
14. mustafau Dec 24th at 7:31 am

    Anyone who couldn’t recognize the difference may have a look at their blog at Google’s cache.
15. بهمن Dec 24th at 7:52 am

    So good 😉
    I & Sorush see this problem with Thirteen theme when we RTL this them.

    Thanks.
16. livingjourney Dec 24th at 7:53 am

    Ha…. thanks for that… by the way, love the photo of the orphan. More Please!

    V
17. disembedded Dec 24th at 7:56 am

    Hi Matt,

    This is good. I like your attention to very helpful detail. Best holiday wishes to you1
18. Xomps Dec 24th at 8:04 am

    That’s very cool ^^
    Thanx ^^

    Merry X-Mas to Everyone…
19. madelynewyear Dec 24th at 8:16 am

    FIRST COMMENT! I think… anyway… thats perfect….I hate that. It’s annoying. 😛
20. Adi Dec 24th at 8:16 am

    🙂 that’s great.
21. zaid Dec 24th at 8:26 am

    Way to go bro. It makes us look
    better.
22. Khalil A. Dec 24th at 8:31 am

    Haha, awesome. Was always wondering why this happens though.
23. bollig Dec 24th at 9:08 am

    hah, cool. thanks although i never would have known
    otherwise.
24. fracas Dec 24th at 9:43 am

    Well thank you! That makes me just about as happy as a kid who just found out he gets to open some presents on Christmas Eve!

    Merry Christmas to everyone at WordPress.
25. Keith Dec 24th at 9:53 am

    WordPress just keeps getting better because of the concerted and continual work and effort of its staff — great job guys and have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
26. Galen Dec 24th at 10:23 am

    I wanted to say that, too, (if it is the same thing) it is amazing how many things I did not realize I could avoid just by being here. That sounds ridiculous, but it is true. My orphans were not there, if they were, so now, they will never be! Wow! Blessings are like that, we might not even “see” them. THANK YOU AGAIN, MY FRIEND(S)!!! (is this the season to get from the givers, or what???) 😀
    –g
27. Gilles Daigneault Dec 24th at 10:28 am

    THX
    God I love this place!
28. nikoxy Dec 24th at 11:27 am

    I like WP because it is typo-wise!
29. ish Dec 24th at 11:47 am

    Nice feature.I’ve never had this happening actually but yeah,good typography is welcome anyday

    WordPress.com users-extremely happy with their administrators taking care of orphans in the titles so that we don’t have to.
30. Rizwan Dec 24th at 11:58 am

    Neat feature … though I dont have worries about my title !!! lolz..
31. rumours Dec 24th at 12:43 pm

    Happy Holidays WP
    🙂
32. Nicola Dec 24th at 1:55 pm

    Great idea – thank you
33. Aishah Dec 24th at 2:19 pm

    WordPress.com – worrying about silly stuff like orphans in titles so you don’t have to.

    Lol, that’s jokes!

    Where di that come from again?
34. H.Constantinos Dec 24th at 3:06 pm

    Very specific. Very good.
35. adam Dec 24th at 3:16 pm

    brilliant, thank you!
36. David W. Boles Dec 24th at 3:32 pm

    Excellent feature, Matt, thanks! It was always a challenge to write a headline that would break properly and then, if you changed templates, your headlines would break in really ugly ways anyway. This should solve that problem.
37. Two Witches Dec 24th at 4:47 pm

    It’s so nice to know that all you programming types at WordPress are always looking to make improvements and to fix problems.

    Happy holidays
    Mama Kelly
38. Shodan Dec 24th at 4:59 pm

    Yay. Happy festivus to all type lovers.
39. The Nerd Dec 24th at 5:03 pm

    Please sir, can I have some more?

    Kidding 😉 But good work guys. Definatly above and beyond at this time of year 😉

    Merry Christmas.
40. madelynewyear Dec 24th at 5:10 pm

    Ah lol.. I did have first comment.. but my comment had to be moderated for no reason XD Oh well. 😛
41. Dave Bonta Dec 24th at 6:08 pm

    Bitchin’. Thanks.
42. Michael Dec 24th at 6:36 pm

    Thanks, and Merry Christmas!
43. Cubskick277 & Ompaloompa64 Dec 24th at 8:21 pm

    that bothers me a lot too! thank god for

    wordpress
44. businessgolf Dec 24th at 8:48 pm

    Thanks for watching out for us!
45. jb Dec 24th at 9:53 pm

    Ok, apparently I woke up stupid today. I have no idea what Orphan Words are. Any help?
46. Brian Dec 24th at 9:55 pm

    Matt,

    We are supposed to be using titles??? 😛

    Have a Merry Christmas and don’t work so hard. 🙂
47. suburbanbanshee Dec 24th at 10:43 pm

    Nice bit of Christmas kaizen.
48. Shirley Dec 25th at 1:43 am

    …nor widows, either.

    Merry Christmas to all.

    Shirley Buxton
    http://www.writenow.wordpress.com
49. Shirley Dec 25th at 1:45 am

    Excuse me…or widows, either 😦

    Shirley
50. David W. Boles Dec 25th at 2:13 am

    I just noticed this works in the Sidebar, too, for the “Recent Posts” widget — very cool — but it doesn’t work on the “Top Posts” or “Recent Comments” widgets.
51. torchwolf Dec 25th at 3:24 am

    Mmm…. this seems to have prevented the:

    “My Title Had One Word
    Hanging”

    syndrome.

    But now, in the sidebar, what I often get instead, which looks even sillier is:

    “My Title Had
    One
    Word Hanging.”

    Hate to be a party-pooper, but if we can disable this in sidebars, so much the better!
52. Nita Dec 25th at 3:34 am

    Thanks. Titles of my posts are often long and this is just perfect.
53. archiearchive Dec 25th at 8:10 am

    Oh goody – now I can have r e a l l y l o n g titles. I like that.
    Thanks, Matt.
54. Mr Patient Dec 25th at 12:58 pm

    Matt, could we also have better typography for alternate languages? For example, in French, the “:;!?»” signs must be preceeded by a non-breakable space, and “«” must be followed by a non-breakable space.

    Having WP do that automatically when French is the selected language would be a killer.
55. Phil Dec 25th at 2:10 pm

    Thank You! This is a neat addition, a bit like a Christmas gift someone gives you before you realize there was a solution to one of life’s little annoyances 😀

    You really do look out for us, WordPress – A Merry christmas to you all~!

    Phil —
56. Tina Dec 25th at 2:53 pm

    Wow, you guys thought of that?

    But it really is annoying when it goes to the next line.

    This just made me realize that I’m into good typography too.
57. tobeme Dec 25th at 4:44 pm

    Nice holiday gift for us!
58. Robert Dec 25th at 5:06 pm

    Thank you for fixing such an annoying problem!
59. Coconuts Dec 25th at 10:49 pm

    This will undoubtedly improve the general quality of life for all wordpress.com users/readers, and for that I thank you.
60. doublecheese Dec 25th at 11:38 pm

    Cool but man it seemed weir when on my dashboard I saw the title as “No orphans in titles”. I thought, “Does this mean we can’t have blog titles with “orphan” in them?”
61. metaphorical Dec 26th at 5:35 am

    Very cool. Surely hung punctuation is next?
62. Admin Dec 26th at 9:15 am

    Very nice, this should be applied to sidebar as well.
63. deveels Dec 26th at 11:14 am

    It’s just amazing how you pay attention even to the smallest things. Thanks.
64. aikidude Dec 26th at 2:05 pm

    i had no idea what you were talking about (not being a journalist or… english mother tongue!!)

    good learning new things every day.. thanks wordpress!
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66. S. Weasel Dec 26th at 10:07 pm

    But what does it do instead? Shrink the font? Bounce another word to the second line to keep the orphan company?

    I just scrolled through my everything without finding a headline that long.
67. gspence1173 Dec 27th at 12:09 am

    thanks!
68. CottonWood Dec 27th at 11:52 am

    Widon’t is really useful. thanks a lot
69. blaze Dec 27th at 2:01 pm

    I don’t know what you’re

    talking about.
70. hools Dec 27th at 2:34 pm

    Now where is the option to smack people for poor grammar? Will that be built in? Hope so! 😉
    On an unrelated note (honest!):

    You meant “fixed width” right?
71. lostalien Dec 27th at 3:22 pm

    Thank you! In the spirit of Christmas and the Season, we try to look after all orphans… 🙂
72. maique Dec 27th at 4:13 pm

    thanks.
73. Free Willy Dec 27th at 7:17 pm

    Good! 😀 Thanks!
74. phoenixashes88 Dec 27th at 7:24 pm

    Oh, I hate it when that happens! Thank you!
75. lisawarninger Dec 28th at 2:59 am

    Wow, I love wordpress. Thanks guys.
76. hillary Dec 28th at 4:55 am

    much appreciated..
77. Jacqui Dec 28th at 4:57 am

    Aw. Those poor orphans. *grieves*
78. bkbloodaxe Dec 28th at 10:53 am

    Makes me want to get up there and leave some real untidy text hanging around. But, if it makes your holiday season more of a relaxing one …
79. JLB Dec 28th at 12:33 pm

    Hooray! Thank you WordPress, and Happy Holidays!!!
80. Milla Dec 28th at 7:34 pm

    U R a star! Thnks!
81. Layla Gonzalez Dec 28th at 9:07 pm

    LOL! Thanks for worrying about orphans so we don’t have to. I appreciate it! 🙂
82. Aristocrat Dec 29th at 12:48 pm

    Nice!! I don’t think I realized that this problem ever occurred to me before since I tend to use one-word headlines but props for the nice thought!
83. Helton Dec 29th at 4:42 pm

    thank you I am really bad about that sometimes I go on . . .
84. galvanized Dec 31st at 7:45 pm

    Bahaha thanks for making that piece of webpage/word processing information interesting. (Love the pic!)
85. Meredith Dec 31st at 9:39 pm

    Thanks for solving the troublesome orphans and widows.
    Can Widon’t be applied to body copy and paragraph text too?
86. arationalaversion Jan 2nd at 1:31 am

    Question: How do I get this little widget? Neither the comments above (on scanning, not reading) nor the brief article say how to get the Word version of this other guy’s product…or am I just being, like, illiterate?
87. Matt Jan 2nd at 5:01 am

    arationalaversion, it’s already on your WP.com blog, it’s all automatic.
88. BairbS Jan 3rd at 2:30 am

    That’s
    great,
    Matt.
    Thanks!
89. Dmitri Marine Jan 5th at 6:52 am

    hah neat. good typography, yay. i actually hadn’t even realised, just reading about this b/c of the december summary post.
90. candyslice Jan 12th at 7:14 pm

    But what about the ORPHANS! Um, sorry. Thanks.
91. symbologie Jun 28th at 2:14 am

    Clean typography = love.

    I’m happy here already! *waves newbie flag*