May 19, 2008

How to Avoid Orphans in Blog Titles (Wordpress)

I'm a proofreader by day, and I am constantly noting orphans (or widows, depending on who you ask), which is a single word or maybe even two small words that break to the next line, creating an awkward, unbalanced appearance. I noticed this happening recently on my Wordpress blogs but didn't have much of a clue how to fix it. Here's how: you simply add   in between words with no spaces before and after, like this:

Add these characters in between words

Doing this creates a single unit out of the three words that will break to the next line together if the title runs too long.

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