Drop Caps WordPress Plugin
The Drop Caps plugin adds drop caps to your posts, pages and comments. It comes with some cool css styling and lots of options.
The drop caps plugin is fairly self-explanatory. It adds mark-up to your posts and pages which allows you to create wicked drop caps like those shown on my blog or in the screenshots.
New in version 2: You can now add drop caps to comments and excerpts as well as post content.
Updating to 2.1: The plugin now adds a span as opposed to a strong tag. Make sure to change your stylesheet.
The plugin now has loads of settings. You can choose which pages to put drop caps on. You can exclude specific posts and categories and you can also choose wether to use the default styling.
The plugin marks-up the first paragraph starting with a capital letter. It makes the first letter into a drop cap and gives the paragraph a class of "first-child" allow
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Formatting
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typography
Sites running Drop Caps, click to open one
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Usage of Drop Caps over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 123 to 80 — down 43 (-35%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 80 | -6 |
| June 2024 | 86 | -3 |
| May 2024 | 89 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 89 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 89 | -9 |
| February 2024 | 98 | -1 |
| January 2024 | 99 | -7 |
| December 2023 | 106 | -4 |
| November 2023 | 110 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 110 | -4 |
| September 2023 | 114 | -5 |
| August 2023 | 119 | -3 |
| July 2023 | 122 | -1 |
| June 2023 | 123 | — |
Themes used with Drop Caps
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Thesis_18 |
| 2 | Advanced-newspaper |
| 3 | Thesis_17 |
| 4 | Schema |
| 5 | Genesis |
| 6 | 2014-child |
| 7 | Newspaper |
| 8 | Platform |
| 9 | Coraline |
| 10 | Mystique |
| 11 | Twentysixteen |
| 12 | Fp_santiago |
| 13 | Standard |
| 14 | Valenti |
| 15 | Breviloquent-parchment |
| 16 | Atahualpa |
| 17 | Photoframe |
| 18 | Headlines_enhanced |
| 19 | Judy_miller |
| 20 | Themasterplan_tma_v1.3.1_2 |
Sites running Drop Caps
All sites in the collection80 examples from the collection. Open any site to see the theme and plugins we found on it.
