Best smart quotes plugins for WordPress
The most popular smart quotes plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. wp-Typography leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of Smart Quote Fixer (100+) and Smart Quotes (80+). All 4 plugins tagged “Smart Quotes” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 4 smart quotes plugins
- 1.wp-Typography
The most installed smart quotes plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 71 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
Smart Quote Fixer100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 3.Smart Quotes
80+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1.
- 4.Cleanup Text
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.0.
All 4 plugins tagged “Smart Quotes”
wp-Typography
#1,430by pepe12 days ago
Improve your web typography with: hyphenation, space control, intelligent character replacement, and CSS hooks.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.6(71)
- Downloads
- 243/day

Smart Quote Fixer
Down in the last 7 days:78#15,623by SaltedStone7 years ago
Automatically remove smart quotes from post content and titles, before it gets to the database.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Smart Quotes
#17,783by Martin Lormes13 years ago
Change the quotation marks that are automatically rendered as smart or curly quotes inside your content.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Cleanup Text
#43,025by roggie16 years ago
Function to remove smart quotes, HTML and other special characters from text. Call the function with text as argument, function returns clean text.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day