Automatically change a word style

you can try to create a filter function for 'the_content' to wrap that word into a span with CSS class for formatting;

example code to be added into functions.php of your (child) theme:

add_filter( 'the_content', 'auto_word_style' );

function auto_word_style( $text ) {
$text = str_replace( 'specialword', '<span class="auto-style">specialword</span>', $text );
return $text;
}

and add for example this to the styles (in style.css of a child theme or via a custom CSS plugin):

.auto-style { ...whatever formatting you want... }

Thank you for the idea.

Just so that I understand you well:
– the_content is the PHP page(s) where the filter will be applied
– auto_word_style is the function
– specialword is the word I want to style differently
– auto_style is the CSS style that defines how I want to style the word

Am I right?

'the_content' refers to the content of the page or post, what you type into the editor, not the PHP code or any other structure of the page.

if you only want to apply it to pages, you need to adapt the code slightly.

in the example, the CSS class is .auto-style (with hyphen, not under line);

apart from that, you have got it right.

review also
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/add_filter
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/the_content

I thought the_content was some dummy variable you inserted into the function as an example. My bad ??

Now that I understand it, I’ll try it out.

Thanks ??

Having issues getting the child theme to work, will get back to you when it does and I can safely implement the proposed changes.

What part are you struggling with?

Child theme not taking up the parent settings:
https://themegrill.com/tutorial-on-creating-wordpress-child-theme/#comment-18746 (see second page of thread).

Is there a manual way to do this?

BTW I’ve done the suggested changes in the child theme; only waiting for the child theme to work properly ??

OK so I modified the original functions.php file just to see if the function works.

It doesn’t ??

The text style in standard text (content) is not changed; however, image captions are all screwed up, most likely because of nested HTML tags?

Help ??

For reference:

add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘auto_word_style’ );
function auto_word_style( $text ) {
$text = str_replace( ‘COAPTA’, ‘<span class=”auto-style”>COAPTA</span>’, $text );
return $text;
}

and

.auto-style {
color: #F59D24;
font-style: bolder;
}