PS Hyphenate

WordPress plugin that improves text wrapping for long compound words in languages like German, Norwegian, Swedish, and Dutch.

Features

CSS hyphenation — Enables native browser hyphenation on frontend content.
Soft hyphen exceptions — Insert explicit break points via an exception dictionary at render time.
TeX pattern fallback — Automatic hyphenation using org_heigl/hyphenator dictionaries for 30+ locales (German, Norwegian (Bokmål/Nynorsk), Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Icelandic, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Hungarian, and many more).
Locale-aware — Prefix exceptions with a locale (e.g. nb_NO:digitaliserings-organisasjon).
Case-preserving — Matches exceptions case-insensitively but renders with original casing.
Non-destructive — Processes at render time; saved post content is never modified.
Block-aware — Filters Gutenberg blocks and classic the_content output.

Plugin updates are handled automatically via GitHub. No need to manually download and install updates.

Composer:

composer require soderlind/ps-hyphenate

Add entries in Settings → PS Hyphenate → Exception dictionary.

Format	Example
Explicit	`Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft=Donau-dampf-schiff-fahrts-gesellschaft`
Shorthand	`digitaliserings-organisasjon`
Locale-prefixed	`nb_NO:menneske-rettighets-organisasjon`

Hyphens in the replacement mark soft hyphen positions.

This plugin supports automatic updates from GitHub releases via soderlind/wordpress-github-updater.

When a new release is published on GitHub, WordPress will detect and offer the update through the standard plugin update mechanism.

composer install
composer test

Tests use Pest with Brain Monkey for WordPress function mocks.

GPL-2.0-or-later