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Insert Special Characters

v1.1.3
by 10up · 4.9 (8 reviews)

A Special Character inserter for the WordPress block editor (Gutenberg).

4K+ active installs Updated Apr 23, 2025 Tested to 6.8.1 Requires PHP 7.4
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Insert Special Characters

About Insert Special Characters

The Insert Special Characters plugin for WordPress block editor allows users to easily add special characters, reminiscent of the Classic Editor's Special Character inserter. The plugin can be activated with a keyboard shortcut and development is managed on GitHub. Developers can customize the available special characters by filtering the data set using JavaScript hooks.

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Changelog

1.1.3 – 2024-11-18

  • Changed: Update the UI to be more consistent with WordPress core props (@psorensen, @fabiankaegy via #263).
  • Changed: Clean up NPM dependencies and update node to v20 (props @Sidsector9, @dkotter via #238).
  • Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.7 (props @sudip-md, @sonali886, @godleman, @jeffpaul, @dkotter via #260, #261, #273, #274).
  • Security: Bump express from 4.18.2 to 4.19.2, follow-redirects from 1.15.5 to 1.15.6, ip from 1.1.8 to 1.1.9 and webpack-dev-middleware from 5.3.3 to 5.3.4 (props @dependabot, @iamdharmesh via #254).
  • Security: Bump braces from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3, pac-resolver from 7.0.0 to 7.0.1, socks from 2.7.1 to 2.8.3, ws from 7.59 to 7.5.10 and removes ip (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #259).
  • Security: Bump axios from 1.6.7 to 1.7.7, body-parser from 1.20.2 to 1.20.3, express from 4.19.2 to 4.21.0, ws from 7.5.10 to 8.18.0, @wordpress/scripts from 27.1.0 to 29.0.0 and webpack from 5.90.0 to 5.94.0 (props @dependabot, @Sidsector9 via #267, #268).

1.1.2 – 2024-01-08

1.1.1 – 2023-10-17

  • Fixed: Address an issue where some blocks would crash due to a missing attribute (props @dkotter via #221).
  • Security: Bump @babel/traverse from 7.20.5 to 7.23.2 (props @dependabot, @dkotter via #219).

1.1.0 – 2023-10-16

Further changelog entries can be found in the CHANGELOG.md file.

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