Soft Hyphen Inserter

Did you know that WordPress inserts automatic wordbreaks to prevent horizontal scrollbars when writing very long words into the Gutenberg Editor? This plugin adds the option to disable it and adds a button into the block toolbar to insert a hidden character – the soft hyphen. It only appears when there is not enough space. This way the word breaks where it should and where it is correct.

Plugin Features

• inserts a hidden symbol which breaks your (long) word when necessary
• find a new button in toolbar dropdown “more” → “optional hyphenation”
• has a settings page where you can find an option to disable the automatic hyphenation by WordPress when using the soft hyphens in that particular block
• has an option to place the soft hyphen inserter button directly into the block toolbar for faster access
• you can also use keyboard shortcut shift+cmd+h (mac OS) for soft hyphen placement
• the plugin also indicates if the selected block contains a soft hyphen and if the caret/cursor is on that position, you can remove it by clicking the insert-button again