Nice Dashes
Nice Dashes is a WordPress plugin I put together to replace double-hyphens (––) with the correct character code for an em-dash (—). It will also convert single-hyphens to a character code.
Note: It turns out, according to an email I received from Ia, WordPress actually already does this, but not quite in the same capacity. Triple-hyphens are converted to em-dashes (—), and double-dashes are converted to en-dashes (–). Still, I like to type the way my plugin handles the hyphens, but I figured I’d let you know that for your uses, Nice Dashes might be redundant!
Compatibility
Well, it works with the newest version of WP, 2.1, but I haven’t been able to test it with the older versions. If you find any compatibility problems, let me know!
What’s changed in version 0.2
- No longer switches double-dashes in comment tags, so your comments don’t get mangled.
- Smileys should work now.
- The code broke single dashes in urls, so I made it so that it only changes single dashes with a space before and after.
Download
You can download version 0.2 of Nice Dashes here.
Installation
Installation is the same as any other WP Plugin—just unzip and drop “nicedashes.php” in your wp-content/plugins folder and activate in via the “Plugins” tab in WordPress.
Find any bugs?
Please let me know.