Supports the grammar rule for orphan words at the end of a line.
| Last updated | July 16, 2026Updated in the last year |
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| Tested up to | WordPress 7.0.8Older than WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 8.0 or newer |
| First published | February 16, 2011 |
| Support, last two months | No threads opened |
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The Orphans plugin automatically improves the typography of your WordPress site by preventing single-letter or very short words—known as orphans—from appearing alone at the beginning of a line. By replacing the space after these words with a non-breaking space, the plugin ensures cleaner, more professional-looking text layouts, especially for languages like Polish where such typographic rules are important.
What are Orphans?
An orphan in typography is a short word (often a single character) left isolated at the beginning of a line, separated from the rest of the sentence. This is considered a composition error and can negatively affect readability and the visual appeal of your content.
Key Features
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Plugin works when viewing the content and does not modify your content.
You can do it on Support Threads, but please add your ticket to Github Issues.
Use orphan_replace filter. Example code:
$value = apply_filters( 'orphan_replace', get_post_meta($post_id, 'meta_key', true ) );
Use orphan_replace filter. Example code:
$value = apply_filters( 'orphan_replace', 'any string' );
By default to using this plugin you must have manage_options capability, which usually means site administrator. If you want to allow manage Orphans by “Editors” then you need to use other capabilities, e.g. unfiltered_html. You can use iworks_orphans_capability filter:
add_filter('iworks_orphans_capability', 'my_orphans_capability'); function my_orphans_capability($capability) { return 'unfiltered_html'; }
At the beginning of your block just add:
add_filter( 'orphan_skip_replacement', '__return_true' );
and at the end, to again turn on replacements:
remove_filter( 'orphan_skip_replacement', '__return_true' );
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