Apply French typography rules to your WordPress content automatically.

Jb Audras

Julio Potier

Jason Rouet

Béryl de La Grandière

French Typo automatically applies French typography rules to your content. Choose regular or thin non-breaking spaces in Settings > French Typo and save to add spaces before punctuation (<code>;</code>, <code>:</code>, <code>!</code>, <code>?</code>, <code>%</code>, <code>«</code>, <code>»</code>); until you do, punctuation spacing stays off. It replaces <code>(c)</code> with <code>©</code>, <code>(r)</code> with <code>®</code>, and <code>(tm)</code> / <code>(TM)</code> with <code>™</code>. It can normalize common French ordinal abbreviations (<code>1ère</code> → <code>1re</code>, <code>3ème</code> → <code>3e</code>, etc.) when that option is enabled (on by default until you save settings without it).
Rules apply to posts, pages, excerpts, taxonomies, archives, comments, widgets, menus, RSS feeds, REST API, custom fields, breadcrumbs, and SEO metadata. Most areas can be enabled or disabled in settings. SEO titles, meta descriptions, and Open Graph/Twitter strings from Yoast SEO, Rank Math, or SEOPress are not gated by the same toggles as post title and content; breadcrumbs use their own option.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Non-breaking spaces before punctuation marks</li>
<li>Optional French ordinal abbreviations (<code>1ère</code> → <code>1re</code>, <code>3ème</code> → <code>3e</code>, hyphenated “n-ième” → <code>nième</code>, etc.), with the same raw HTML boundaries as other rules</li>
<li>Special character replacements (<code>(c)</code> → <code>©</code>, <code>(r)</code> → <code>®</code>)</li>
<li>Configurable: regular or thin non-breaking spaces</li>
<li>Comprehensive coverage: all WordPress content areas</li>
<li>Granular control: enable or disable each area individually</li>
<li>SEO integration: Yoast SEO, Rank Math, SEOPress</li>
<li>Custom fields support: ACF and Meta Box</li>
<li>Respects HTML and shortcodes</li>
</ul>
<h3>Author & Credits</h3>
Jason Rouet 
* Website: <a href="https://jasonrouet.com" rel="nofollow ugc">jasonrouet.com</a> 
* Email: <a href="mailto:bonjour@jasonrouet.com" rel="nofollow ugc">bonjour@jasonrouet.com</a> 
* WordPress.org: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jaz_on/" rel="nofollow ugc">profiles.wordpress.org/jaz_on/</a>
You can support this project on <a href="https://ko-fi.com/jasonrouet" rel="nofollow ugc">Ko-fi</a> or <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/jaz-on" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Sponsors</a>.
This plugin is a fork of French Typo created by Gilles Marchand (master_shiva), completely rebuilt since March 2024 with the help of <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/" rel="nofollow ugc">Jean-Baptiste Audras</a>. Inspired by <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/typofr/" rel="ugc">TypoFR</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/orthotypo-orthotypographie-automatique/" rel="ugc">Orthotypo</a>, and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/consistency/" rel="ugc">Consistency</a>.

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Merci Jason, super initiative, ça manquait !Je regarde ta todo et j'ai quelques remarques à ajouter



Concernant les abréviations de nombres ordinauxpremier donne bien 1er mais première donne 1re et non 1ère



Deuxième et troisième donnent 2e et 3e dans tous les cas, pas de 2ème ou 3ème



Sinon les numéraux indéfinis s’abrègent en nième nième et xième, ce qui est calqué sur leur prononciation.


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