10 WordPress Plugins For Enhancing Typography

Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by Shawn Ramsey in Resources

wordpress typography plugins

If you’re looking for a little more control over the typography within your WordPress blog, sometimes a simple plugin can provide the resource that you’re after. There are plugins for adding drop caps, attractive pull quotes and even for adding just about any font that you can think of. While we recommend making typography changes on your own via CSS and hard-coding, there are times when a plugin just makes life a little easier. In this roundup we have hunted down 10 WordPress Plugins For Enhancing Typography.

You may also be interested in some of our other WordPress plugin roundups:

WP-Typography

The WP-Typography plugin gives you a number of different options for changing up the typography within your WordPress blog. You’re given control over hyphenation, spacing, intelligent character replacement, CSS hooks for styling and much more.

wp-typography

Drop Caps

The Drop Caps plugin adds mark-up to your posts and pages allowing you to create and implement attractive drop caps to the beginning of paragraphs. You can choose which pages to put drop caps on and even exclude specific posts and categories.

drop caps

Simple Pull Quote

The Simple Pull Quote WordPress plugin provides an easy way for you to insert pull quotes into your posts. You can stick with the default styling or simply edit the CSS file included with the installation.

simple pull quote

FD Footnotes Plugin

This plugin provides an extremely easy way to add elegant looking footnotes to your posts. The syntax is natural, simple to understand, and degrades gracefully if the plugin is removed. Footnotes are linked unobtrusively and the note itself links back to the original text where the footnote is referenced.

fd footnotes

Font Burner Control Panel

The Font Burner Control Panel plugin allows you to easily add any of the 1000+ free fonts available on the Font Burner website to your WordPress theme. Simply find a font you like and type it’s name into this plugin and your headlines will instantly be transformed. You have control over size and color of the text as well.

font burner control panel

Font-Resizer

This plugin allows you to give the visitors of your site the option to change the font size. The plugin acts over jQuery and saves the settings in a cookie, so the visitor sees the same font size if they revisit your site. Which content is going to be resized, the resize steps and other options can be set on the admin page.

font-resizer

Typekit Plugin

This is a convenient way for WordPress users to use the Typekit font service in WordPress web sites. This will enable users to change the fonts of their sites with the least amount of time using the Typekit service. Further, this plugin will give the ability to control where the typekit will be used within the site (whether in the front page, static pages .etc).

typekit plugin

WP Super Edit

WP Super Edit is designed to get control of the WordPress WYSIWYG visual editor and add some functionality with more buttons and customized TinyMCE plugins. It includes a drag and drop interface for adding features such as tables, layers (div tag), advanced XHTML properties, advanced imaged and link properties, WordPress emoticons, style attributes and much more.

wp super edit

PS Disable Auto Formatting

PS Disable Auto Formatting stops automatic formatting of WordPress (wpautop), and modifies the HTML source generated by the visual editor. It prevents WordPress form stripping out tags such as <br> and <p> in the HTML editor, something that WP has been notoriously known for.

ps disable auto formatting

AnyFont

AnyFont allows you to use any truetype or opentype font for post titles, menu items or anywhere else you want to use a custom font in your theme design. Some features include font manager for easily uploading new fonts, font shadow options with style manager, tinymce button for quick and easy insertion, cache management and image replacements are SEO compatible.

anyfont

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7 Responses to “10 WordPress Plugins For Enhancing Typography”

Lonnie Chien

23. Feb, 2010

Really like the font-resizer plugin. Could come in handy for visitors who have trouble reading smaller type. Thanks for the list.

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designi1

24. Feb, 2010

Seemed great tools here for WP. I´ll check them out…saved!

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Damien

16. Mar, 2010

Thx this is a very useful post.

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