Description
Makes WordPress sites in Persian and other right-to-left languages look right with popular themes.
- Bundled Vazirmatn font, a free Persian font by the late Saber Rastikerdar. One variable font file covers all weights, with no requests to external servers.
- Block themes (Twenty Twenty-Five, Twenty Twenty-Four, …): the theme’s font presets are switched to Vazirmatn, so font choices in the Site Editor keep working. Monospace fonts are left alone.
- Choose where the font is used: the site, the block editor, the dashboard and admin bar.
- RTL layout fixes for Hueman, Twenty Seventeen and Twenty Sixteen.
- Does nothing unless the current language is right-to-left.
Settings: Appearance RTL Settings.
Tested themes: Astra, Hueman, Twenty Twenty-Five, Twenty Twenty-Four, Twenty Twenty-Three, Twenty Twenty-Two, Twenty Twenty-One, Twenty Twenty, Twenty Nineteen, Twenty Seventeen, Twenty Sixteen. The plugin may also work well with other, untested themes.
Found a problem with your theme? Report it in the support forum. Development happens on GitHub: salar90/better-rtl-support.
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Installation
- Install and activate the plugin from Plugins Add New, or upload it to
wp-content/plugins. - Go to Appearance RTL Settings to choose where the font is used.
FAQ
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Nothing changed on my site
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The plugin only works when the site language (Settings General) or, in the dashboard, your profile language is a right-to-left language such as Persian or Arabic.
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Can I use another font?
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Yes. Choose «Theme default» to keep your theme’s fonts, or set your own font stack in code (load its @font-face yourself):
add_filter( 'brtls_font_stack', function () { return "'Sahel', Tahoma, sans-serif"; } ); -
Can I turn the font off for some pages?
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Use the
brtls_font_enabledfilter. It receives the current value and the context (site,editororadmin):add_filter( 'brtls_font_enabled', function ( $enabled, $context ) { return 'site' === $context && is_page( 'english' ) ? false : $enabled; }, 10, 2 );The CSS variable
--brtls-font-textholds the font stack, if you want to use it in your own styles.
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Contributors & Developers
“Better RTL Support” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
Translate “Better RTL Support” into your language.
Interested in development?
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Changelog
3.0.1
- Fix: list bullets stuck out of the text column on the right in Hueman, Twenty Seventeen and Twenty Sixteen.
- Hueman: the post grid, post meta (category and date), related posts and heading icons are mirrored for right-to-left (tested with Hueman 3.7.27).
- The readme is now in English; the Persian version comes from translate.wordpress.org.
3.0.0
- New: settings page (Appearance RTL Settings): turn the font off, and choose to use it in the site, the block editor and the dashboard.
- New: block theme support. The theme’s font presets switch to Vazirmatn, so the Site Editor and per-block font choices keep working.
- New: the font in the block editor and, optionally, in the dashboard and admin bar.
- New:
brtls_font_stackandbrtls_font_enabledfilters. - Improved: one variable Vazirmatn file covers every weight (100-900); the plugin is about 470 KB smaller and light, medium and semibold text no longer uses fake weights.
- Improved: nothing is loaded on sites in left-to-right languages, and theme fixes load only for their theme.
- Improved: stylesheets are versioned, so browsers pick up changes after an update.
- Changed: text domain is now
better-rtl-support, so translations from translate.wordpress.org work. Persian translation included. - Changed: requires WordPress 5.3 and PHP 7.2.
- Added the Vazirmatn license (SIL Open Font License).
- Settings are removed when the plugin is deleted.
2.1.0
- Updated plugin description
- Test with WP 6.4.1
- Added Screenshots
2.0.2
- Fix versioning
2.0.1
- Fix a bug where fonts did not load on some installs
2.0
- Switch from Iransans to Vazirmatn free font
- Updated Hueman social network display
- fixed some issues with default themes
- checked compatibility with WordPress 6.3.1
1.0.10
- Added Translation files
1.0.6
- Hueman Search position
1.0.5
- Hueman Nav menu
1.0.2
- tested with WordPress 5.2.2
- fix comment reply link style
1.0
- first release.