Fixes typos and punctuation errors when typing in the WordPress editor.
Have you seen the typographic corrector in your word processor that formats what you type in real time? Well, it's the same idea but with Gutenberg.
From your WordPress dashboard, visit Plugins > Add New.
Search for 'Consistency'.
Click on the 'Install Now' button.
Then 'Activate'.
Consistency is installed with built-in rules based on the site's default language.
These rules can be modified by the administrator(s).
In addition, each user can decide whether or not to activate automatic correction.
And all the settings are accessible directly under the editor.
From the 'Options menu', clicking on the Consistency Settings menu brings up the plugin options page.
Clicking on the star will pin the Consistency sidebar, but it is not mandatory.
At the top are the settings for the current user.
Below are the global settings that you can view and modify if you are an administrator.
Remember to unfold the panel to see the rules.
This WordPress plugin ensures consistent typography on your site.
Important
The corrections are automatic and are made during the entry as well as on a copy paste.
Autocorrect rules can be enabled/disabled by any user. Autocorrect is available on pages, posts and custom post types (if their configuration allows Rest API usage)
Currently, the AutoCorrects offered are as follows:
| Name | Description | Example | Locales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Straight quote | Replaces straight quotes with curved quotes | ' → ’ |
fr_FR fr_BE en_US en_AU en_CA en_NZ en_ZA en_GB |
| Two hyphens | Replaces 2 hyphens with em dash | -- → – |
fr_FR fr_BE en_US en_AU en_CA en_NZ en_ZA en_GB de_DE de_AT de_CH ro_RO |
| Three hyphens | Replaces 3 hyphens with em dash | -- → — |
fr_FR fr_BE en_US en_AU en_CA en_NZ en_ZA en_GB de_DE de_AT de_CH ro_RO |
| Four hyphens | Replaces 4 hyphens with two-em dash | -- → ⸺ |
fr_FR fr_BE en_US en_AU en_CA en_NZ en_ZA en_GB de_DE de_AT de_CH ro_RO |
| Ordinal number suffix | Add HTML tag sup to ordinal number suffix | 1st → 1st |
fr_FR fr_BE en_US en_AU en_CA en_NZ en_ZA en_GB |
| Curly quotes | Replaces regular quotes with curly quotes | " " → “ ” |
en_US en_AU en_CA en_NZ en_ZA en_GB |
| Regular quotes to german | Replaces regular quotes with german quotes | " " → „ “ |
de_DE de_AT ro_RO |
| Regular quotes to german book-style quotes | Replaces regular quotes with german book-style quotes | " " → » « |
de_DE de_AT |
| Regular quotes to french | Replaces regular quotes with french quotes | " " → « » |
fr_FR fr_BE |
| Regular quotes to french quotes without spaces | Replaces regular quotes with french quotes without spaces | " " → « » |
de_CH |
| Curly quotes to french quotes | Replaces curly quotes with french quotes | “ ” → « » |
fr_FR fr_BE |
| Breaking space | Replaces a breaking space followed by a character from this list with a non-breaking space: | ? ! : ; » € $ £ ¥ ₽ 元 % |
fr_FR fr_BE |
| No space before | Adds a non-breaking space before a character from this list having no space before: | ? ! : ; » € $ £ ¥ ₽ 元 % |
fr_FR fr_BE |
| Space before | Remove any space preceding a character from this list: | ? ! : ; % |
en_US en_AU en_CA en_NZ en_ZA en_GB de_DE de_AT de_CH ro_RO |
| No breaking space after | Adds a breaking space after a character from this list when followed with another character: | , … ) ] |
fr_FR fr_BE en_US en_AU en_CA en_NZ en_ZA en_GB |
| No non breaking space after | Adds a non-breaking space after open french quote having no space after | « → « |
fr_FR fr_BE |
| First sentence letter not capitalized | Capitalize the first letter of a sentence | a é ș → A É Ș |
fr_FR fr_BE en_US en_AU en_CA en_NZ en_ZA en_GB de_DE de_AT de_CH ro_RO |
| 3 dots following "etc" | Replaces 3 dots placed after the abbreviation "etc" with a point | etc... → etc. |
fr_FR fr_BE |
| 2 dots following "etc" | Replaces 2 dots placed after the abbreviation "etc" with a point | etc.. → etc. |
en_US en_AU en_CA en_NZ en_ZA en_GB |
| Ellipsis following "etc" | Replaces ellipsis placed after the abbreviation "etc" with a point | etc… → etc. |
fr_FR fr_BE |
| Ellipsis | Replaces 3 dots with ellipsis | ... → … |
fr_FR fr_BE en_US en_AU en_CA en_NZ en_ZA en_GB de_DE de_AT de_CH ro_RO |
| Symbol in a circle | Replaces 1 character placed in parentheses with a symbol | (c) (p) (r) → © ℗ ® |
fr_FR fr_BE en_US en_AU en_CA en_NZ en_ZA en_GB de_DE de_AT de_CH ro_RO |
| Symbol in small caps and superscript style | Replaces 2-character abbreviations with a symbol in small caps and superscript style | tm sm md mc → ™ ℠ 🅫 🅪 |
fr_FR fr_BE en_US en_AU en_CA en_NZ en_ZA en_GB de_DE de_AT de_CH ro_RO |
| Fractions | Replaces fractions with fraction symbols | 1/2 3/5 1/9 → ½ ⅗ ⅑ |
fr_FR fr_BE en_US en_AU en_CA en_NZ en_ZA en_GB de_DE de_AT de_CH ro_RO |
| Percentages | Replaces percentages with percentages symbols | 0/0 0/00 0/000 → % ‰ ‱ |
fr_FR fr_BE en_US en_AU en_CA en_NZ en_ZA en_GB de_DE de_AT de_CH ro_RO |
If your locale is not supported by Consistency but you still want to access all available rules, you can disable the localization of rules via a filter. Add this to your theme's functions.php file:
add_filter( 'Consistency\only_show_locale_correction_rules', '__return_false' );All correction rules will then appear, with automatic management of rule incompatibilities (if rule A is enabled and it is incompatible with rule B, rule B will be grayed out).
Tip
Ctrl+Z or Cmd+Z right after a correction disables the correction for the next keystroke. It is thus possible to force the non-correction of a character.
Technically, rules are saved in the wp_options table, while active/inactive states are saved as user meta data in wp_usermeta table.
This data is deleted when the plugin is uninstalled.
Settings are directly in a plugin sidebar under the Block Editor: no more searching for an options page, always available and discreet.
