10 Useful Text Enhancing Plugins for WordPress
Out of the box, WordPress is an amazing product and comes loaded with tons of features. However, one area that might be lacking is text formatting. There’s not really any tools built in to do things like dynamic image replacement, code highlighting, and other styling to improve the look of your text. Luckily there is a community of talented developers that have created plugins to fill this need. I’ve listed here 10 of the most useful text enhancing WordPress plugins.
TTFTitles
TTFTitles lets you use images to replace the titles of your posts, thus circumventing the problem of guessing what fonts your end-users might have installed.
wp-Typography
wp-Typography is a one-stop-shop for improved web typography in WordPress. Some of it’s key features include: hyphenation, spacing control, and intelligent character replacement.
Drop Caps Plugin
With the Drop Caps plugin, all drop caps are added on the fly meaning you can disable them if you change theme and you don’t need to think about them when you write your posts.
Simple Pull Quote
The Simple Pull Quote WordPress Plugin provides an easy way for you to insert pull quotes.
Google Syntax Highlighter
This plugin easily integrates the Google Syntax Highlighter by Alex Gorbatchev into WordPress.
WP-Syntax
WP-Syntax provides clean syntax highlighting that supports a wide range of popular languages. It supports highlighting with or without line numbers and maintains formatting while copying snippets of code from the browser.
WP-Syntax Colorizer
WP-Syntax Colorizer is a plugin that runs along side WP-Syntax and gathers all of the functions required to set custom colors for your code snippets.
Text Control
Text Control lets you to choose from a variety of formatting syntaxes and encoding options.
PS Disable Auto Formatting
PS Disable Auto Formatting stops automatic formatting of WordPress (wpautop), and modifies the html source generated by the visual editor.
Dynamic Font Replacement
Dynamic Font Replacement allows you to use your own ttf- or otf-fonts with WordPress.
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15 comments
Vicki Willingham
November 9, 2009Interesting, but I really can’t see the need for most of these, especially the drop caps plugin. That type of styling can make a site look rather dated, in my opinion.
I’m sure others will correct me.
Vicki
Tom Ross
November 9, 2009Wow, I didn’t even know you could get this kind of plugin for WordPress. Seems pretty useful with more and more blogs integrating beautiful typography. Thanks for sharing!
Matt Alexander
November 9, 2009The Disable Auto Formatting will come in very handy. I prefer to format the whole thing in the HTML editor.
Design Informer
November 9, 2009Nice. I like wp-Typography.
frank katzer
November 9, 2009simple-pull-quote – thanks for that – simple (as the name says) and very useful for my blog…
Orlando Web Design
November 9, 2009How great is that. I just got done launching a simple WordPress site. This is really perfect timing. Thanks again for another great post!
Chris
November 10, 2009Simple Pull Quote will be added to my blog by the end of the day. I also like the one that capitalizes the letters for you–saves a keystroke.
naveed
November 10, 2009thanks for sharing they are all really usefull specially the very first one which replaces the font with image
designfollow
November 10, 2009thanks for the great post
Philip
November 10, 2009Great article! Another reason why WordPress kicks serious @#%!!
Design Ideas
November 11, 2009Nice list of WP Typography. Thanks!
shoaib
January 3, 2010Knew of only drop caps will use some others too,like the one for replacing post titles with images.
Popo
May 22, 2010What I’m really looking for is a way to *limit* fonts and colors on a multiple-author blog. Anyone know how to do this?
Tim
July 20, 2010Now wouldn’t that be absolutely superb! Let us know if you figure this out
Brett Widmann
October 29, 2010Very nice plugins. Thanks for sharing.