10 Wordpress Typography Plugins

Posted in Freebies | On 24th November 2009 | 8 Comments

Wordpress is one of the most used blogging platforms that is utilised by a huge number of bloggers, what is great about that is there are an array of fantastic plugins and resources created within the Wordpress community and are frequently shared with other Wordpress users.

Here I have listed 10 plugins that allows you to work on the typography within your blog, Wordpress has some good default text formatting features built in, but some can be restrictive for some users needs and requirements.

The plugins listed here cover a variety of uses, such as font replacement, censorship and text formatting to name a few.

Censortive

cens

Allows you to automatically replaces any selected words with a graphical replacement.

PS Disable Auto Formatting

daf

Stops Wordpress auto-formatting your text.

Dynamic Font Replacement

dfr

Allows usage of TTF or OTF fonts on Wordpress.

Drop Caps

drop

This allows you to add add drop caps to your blog.

WP-Footnotes

footn

Allows you to create footnotes within your blog.

jQuery Font Resizer

jqfr

This offers three links to change the size of the font on your blog to enhanced readability.

Simple Pull Quote

simpull

A plugin to make pull quotes a piece of cake.

Text Control

textc

Allows full control over text formatting options on your Wordpress install.

TTFTitles

ttf

Allows you to replace headers with any true type font you wish to use.

WP Typography

wpty

Adds a number of typography features to your blog including Hyphenation, Spacing control, Intelligent character replacement as well as CSS hooks.

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