Title: Automatic NBSP
Author: Damian Gora
Published: <strong>07 Avost 2013</strong>
Last modified: 11 Avril 2019

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Automatic NBSP

 By [Damian Gora](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webtroter/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/automatic-nbsp.1.5.4.zip)

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 * [Reviews](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/automatic-nbsp/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/automatic-nbsp/#installation)
 * [Development](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/automatic-nbsp/#developers)

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## Description

**Support typographic rules in Polish and Czech**
 Moves conjunctions, prepositions,
etc. to the new line. ( sierotki )

**Support punctuation marks in French**
 Adds a non-breaking space `&nbsp;` before
punctuation marks as `!` `?` `;` `%` `«` `»`

**How it works?**
 The plugin automatically adds HTML entity `&nbsp;` ( non-breaking
space ) after selected words or phrases. E.g. ‘Mr. Someone’ should be ‘Mr.`&nbsp;`
Someone’. Works with:

 * posts
 * titles
 * pages
 * custom post types
 * comments
 * widgets
 * custom contents

You can create your own list of words/phrases or import our proposals.

**Custom contents**
 You can use the function `<?php auto_nbsp($content, $echo);?
>` to add `&nbsp;` to the custom content. Use this in your code. 1. Param `$content`–(
string) (required) Free text 2. Param `$echo` – (bool) (optional) true (echo), false(
return), Default: true

**Other features:**
 * Advanced Custom Fields compatibility

If you have any ideas for how Automatic NBSP could be improved, you write to us.

## Installation

 1. Install the plugin from within the Dashboard or upload the directory `automatic-
    nbsp` and all its contents to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. Go to Settings -> Automatic NBSP and set your preferences.
 4. Enjoy automatically added non-breaking spaces

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Breaks code blocks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/breaks-code-blocks/)󠁿

 [Radek Lat](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rala/) 10 Luj 2021

I was hunting for a mysteriously broken code block formatting, where some line breaks
were stripped away. It turned out this plug-in was the cause. Share it seems not
longer maintained. I would love to continue to use it.

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### 󠀁[Good but could be better](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-but-could-be-better-29/)󠁿

 [melebius](https://profiles.wordpress.org/melebius/) 12 Marz 2021

I installed this plugin mainly to auto-add non-breakable space after prepositions.
This works well. I also appreciate the easy settings page of this plugin. However,
there are many things which could be done better: The plugin page claims to cover
Czech but I can only choose between Polish and English vocabulary in the settings.
There is no information on whether the plugin kicks in when saving a post or rendering
it. I discovered it’s while rendering. This is good to fix older posts as well but
it might make each rendering a bit slower. A link to the plugin settings could be
shown on the Plugins page. The plugin only offers adding &nbsp; after the customizable
vocabulary words and before preset punctuation marks. I’d be glad if both lists 
were customizable. The plugin offers no way to automatically add &nbsp; in more 
complicated situations, e.g. after numbers, especially ordinal ones (the German 
or Czech way). And last but not least, the plugin should be tested with the latest
WordPress releases, although it’s doing well for me with WordPress 5.6.

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### 󠀁[Must have](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/must-have-529/)󠁿

 [Cyrille Sanson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/css31/) 02 Avost 2020

Hello, While WordPress is at version 5, I don’t understand why it is still necessary
to use a plugin to fix the problem of no break spaces before double height signs.
Fortunately Damian Gora developed Automatic NBSP and solved the problem. Many thanks
Damian for this great plugin, simple and efficient.

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### 󠀁[Easy and perfect](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/easy-and-perfect-33/)󠁿

 [kuldaoo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kuldaoo/) 13 Marz 2020

No bloatware, ads, no useless fields. Simple a usefull. GREAT. thank you

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### 󠀁[Doesn’t work. Fix it or remove it.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-work-fix-it-or-remove-it/)󠁿

 [jasonbear](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jasonbear/) 18 Avost 2018

It does not work on Wordpress 4.9.8. The developer has not responded here in almost
2 years. Either fix this thing or remove it!

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### 󠀁[Great plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-15093/)󠁿

 [Marek](https://profiles.wordpress.org/muti-wp/) 08 Setember 2017

I love to have good formated text! With this plugin it is possible 🙂 Thank you!

 [ Read all 12 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/automatic-nbsp/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Automatic NBSP” is open source software. The following people have contributed 
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Damian Gora ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webtroter/)
 *   [ Damian Góra ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/damian-gora/)

[Translate “Automatic NBSP” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/automatic-nbsp)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/automatic-nbsp/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/automatic-nbsp/), or 
subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/automatic-nbsp/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/automatic-nbsp/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.5.4, April 11, 2019

 * CHANGE: Nothing changed. Only version.

#### 1.5.3, November 25, 2016

 * FIX: special case for a mark `«` (by francois.massart)

#### 1.5.2, April 24, 2016

 * FIX: Escaping another special characters from phrases

#### 1.5.1, January 28, 2016

 * ADD Integration with the Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
 * DEL Problematic feature (keep numbers together).

#### 1.5

 * ADD Keep numbers together as option
 * FIX Bug with words ending with a dot `.`

#### 1.4

 * FIX Bug with disappearing titles.

#### 1.3

 * ADD New function `auto_nbsp($content, $echo)` allows to add nbsp to the custom
   content. Use this in your code.
 * ADD `&nbsp;` before punctuation marks as `!` `?` `;` `%` `«` `»`

#### 1.2

 * Title is now supported.
 * Excerpt is now supported.
 * Comment text is now supported.
 * Widget text is now supported.
 * Phrases is now allowed.
 * Add case sensitive for words or phrases.
 * Add list of conjunctions and other phrases for the Polish and English language.
 * Fix mechanism for adding a &nbsp entitie.
 * Polish translation

#### 1.1

 * Fix bug compatibility wordpress 3.6.

#### 1.0

 * First version.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.5.4**
 *  Last updated **7 years ago**
 *  Active installations **3'000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.1.22**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/automatic-nbsp/)
 * Tags
 * [line-break](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/line-break/)[nbsp](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/nbsp/)
   [non-breaking space](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/non-breaking-space/)
   [Polish](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/polish/)[typography](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/typography/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/automatic-nbsp/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.2 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Damian Gora ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webtroter/)
 *   [ Damian Góra ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/damian-gora/)

## Support

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