Initial Letter

Description

Initial Letter is a plugin that adds style options so you can change the size, color, and font of the first letter of each paragraph within a post. Also known as “drop cap”. You can add/remove this functionality on a per post basis the meta box in the post editor.

To do: Add option for custom Google Fonts

Screenshots

Installation

Installation

1. Upload the whole initial-letter folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
3. Style the initial letter from Settings > Initial Letter

FAQ

1. None yet!

Reviews

Big Boy Letter On Every Paragraph Start?

aceofjames September 26, 2022

I’d give this plugin a 5 especially since all others are pretty bad and or just don’t work. The problem with Initial Letter is that even when you check the box “First Paragraph Only” it shows up on EVERY paragraph. Does anyone have any insight on how to fix this? Thank you in advance, James P. Williams AceOfJames

Unresponsive to Pages

americanpigeon November 11, 2021

Was working okay, until the plugin was unresponsive. The default (whether or not you want the initial letter in every post to be a drop cap) underneath each post is switched to “Yes.” While this doesn’t affect all the posts it affected one of the pages, so that even upon trying to switch it off manually, the plugin stayed on. This was unacceptable. Two stars because it works. But doesn’t work as optimally as it should.

Working brilliantly with Gutenberg

Silhouettist July 31, 2021

Works brilliantly with the Gutenberg editor and much better than the limited “drop cap” option that ships with Gutenberg. Please update to get rid of the “not tested with current WP version” message. Either that or sell it to Gutenberg who should really offer these settings as part of the package.

100% useless

AsaHersh July 18, 2021 1 reply

1. Cannot edit for individual posts. 2. Will show on every first block of text, not every page!

Good and easy!

marcomassimo August 14, 2020

Very well

Really great plugin!

Elvis1973 September 17, 2017

I have tried about three plugins that say they do drop caps but most were incompatible with my site or didn’t work at all. This plugin does the job, looks great and is very simple to install. A+++

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

2.3

• Fix some warnings.
• Update screenshots.
• Ensure support for latest WordPress version.

2.2

• Fix issue where $this cannot be used in anonymous function in < PHP 5.4

2.1

• Fix PHP warning.
• Default settings on fresh plugin install.

2.0

• Move plugin to single php class.
• Add ability to add/remove per post.
• More accurate application of initial letter.

1.3

• Updates for better display and usage.
• Ability to match font on post.
• Added more font options.
• Font size up to 100px.
• Added padding right option to help dial in spacing.

1.2

Now the if ‘First Paragraph Only’ is selected the plugin will apply to the first paragraph with text. In previous releases if the first paragraph was empty or was and html element the style would not show.

1.1

Added option to apply style to First Paragraph Only.

1.0

• First one!