French Typo

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: 1ère → 1re, 3ème → 3e, n-ième → nième
• 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.