Widon't Part Deux

Building on Shaun Inman’s plugin, Widon’t Part Deux eliminates widows in the titles and content your posts and pages.

Known Issues

• It doesn’t always work if the last word of in the element is wrapped in a tag. (Like if the final word is bold.)
• You can’t pick how many words are on the last line (yet).

The easy way:

1. Download from the WordPress plugins page and use the Administrator pages to upload and activate.

The other way:

1. Upload the wp-widont folder and contents to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Update the settings with any additional tags you want to remove widows and orphans from in a post.

What is a widow and orphan?

When the line length is short enough that a word wraps, but long enough that it only leaves one word on the next line.

It looks something like
this.

But will look like this.

Why should I care?

Because you want your site to be as usable for your visitors as possible. This will help.

What tags can I add in the settings?

The settings filter uses wp_kses_post to sanitize the tags you specify. By default, this is set in wp-includes/kses.php.

1.3.1

Removed debugging code that shouldn’t be in production. Oops.

1.3.0

• Fixed issue where oEmbed-generated iframes weren’t loading. Props hacknug.
• Added l10n support.

1.2.0

• Fixed “smart” quotes that weren’t displayed properly on WordPress.org/plugins.
• Made compatible with PHP 5.2 since a number of hosts still use that version and it’s supported by WordPress itself.

1.1.1

• Added default tags for post content filtering.

1.1.0

• Enable validation and sanitization of the options input.
• Use the Settings API to get and store options in the database.

1.0.1

• Formatted to match WordPress coding standards.

1.0.0

• Forked from Shaun Inman’s plugin at v2.1.1.