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French Typo
Apply French typography rules to your WordPress content automatically.
The facts
- Rating
- 4★ from 4
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 19 May 2026
- Added
- Nov 2025
- Requires WP
- 6.0
- Tested up to
- WP 7.0.4
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
- Downloads
- 1,282
Our analysis
AI-assistedFrench Typo is a WordPress plugin that applies French typography rules to your content as it is displayed. It enhances the rendered output of your text without altering what you have written in the editor. This plugin is suitable for multilingual sites, allowing you to apply French typography rules specifically to French content.
The plugin adds non-breaking spaces before certain punctuation marks, replaces specific symbols with their typographic equivalents, and can normalize French ordinals. It works across various content areas including posts, pages, widgets, and SEO outputs, making it versatile for different types of content.
Best for: This plugin is best for WordPress sites that require French typography enhancements.
What it does well
- ✓Applies French typography rules to displayed content
- ✓Enhances text without modifying the editor input
- ✓Works across multiple content areas
- ✓Supports multilingual sites with French content
- ✓Customisable settings for non-breaking spaces and content areas
Where it falls short
- •Does not modify raw HTML or code blocks
- •Does not change stored database content
Verdict
French Typo offers a straightforward solution for applying French typography rules, making it useful for content creators focused on French language content.
From the developer
Jason Rouet's own description of French Typo, lightly tidied.
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.
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