Title: Initial Letter
Author: Garrett Grimm
Published: <strong>December 21, 2012</strong>
Last modified: January 3, 2021

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Initial Letter

 By [Garrett Grimm](https://profiles.wordpress.org/grimmdude/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/initial-letter.2.3.zip)

 * [Details](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/initial-letter/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/initial-letter/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/initial-letter/#installation)
 * [Development](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/initial-letter/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/initial-letter/)

## Description

Initial Letter is a plugin that adds style options so you can change the size, color,
and font of the first letter of each paragraph within a post. Also known as “drop
cap”. You can add/remove this functionality on a per post basis the meta box in 
the post editor.

To do: Add option for custom Google Fonts

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Screenshot of a post page.
 * [[
 * Screenshot of a options page.

## Installation

Installation

 1. Upload the whole `initial-letter` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
 3. Style the initial letter from Settings > Initial Letter

## FAQ

 1. None yet!

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Big Boy Letter On Every Paragraph Start?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/big-boy-letter-on-every-paragraph-start/)󠁿

 [aceofjames](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aceofjames/) September 26, 2022

I’d give this plugin a 5 especially since all others are pretty bad and or just 
don’t work. The problem with Initial Letter is that even when you check the box “
First Paragraph Only” it shows up on EVERY paragraph. Does anyone have any insight
on how to fix this? Thank you in advance, James P. Williams AceOfJames

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### 󠀁[Unresponsive to Pages](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unresponsive-to-pages/)󠁿

 [americanpigeon](https://profiles.wordpress.org/americanpigeon/) November 11, 2021

Was working okay, until the plugin was unresponsive. The default (whether or not
you want the initial letter in every post to be a drop cap) underneath each post
is switched to “Yes.” While this doesn’t affect all the posts it affected one of
the pages, so that even upon trying to switch it off manually, the plugin stayed
on. This was unacceptable. Two stars because it works. But doesn’t work as optimally
as it should.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Working brilliantly with Gutenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-brilliantly-with-gutenberg/)󠁿

 [Silhouettist](https://profiles.wordpress.org/silhouettist/) December 13, 2025

Works brilliantly with the Gutenberg editor and much better than the limited “drop
cap” option that ships with Gutenberg. Please update to get rid of the “not tested
with current WP version” message. Either that or sell it to Gutenberg who should
really offer these settings as part of the package. Update 4 years later: App still
works well. Would be happy to donate but the maker seems to have forgotten to keep
updating it.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[100% useless](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/100-useless/)󠁿

 [AsaHersh](https://profiles.wordpress.org/asahersh/) July 18, 2021 1 reply

1. Cannot edit for individual posts. 2. Will show on every first block of text, 
not every page!

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### 󠀁[Good and easy!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-and-easy-49/)󠁿

 [marcomassimo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/marcomassimo/) August 14, 2020

Very well

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Really great plugin!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-great-plugin-91/)󠁿

 [Elvis1973](https://profiles.wordpress.org/elvis1973/) September 17, 2017

I have tried about three plugins that say they do drop caps but most were incompatible
with my site or didn’t work at all. This plugin does the job, looks great and is
very simple to install. A+++

 [ Read all 12 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/initial-letter/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Initial Letter” is open source software. The following people have contributed 
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Garrett Grimm ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/grimmdude/)

[Translate “Initial Letter” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/initial-letter)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/initial-letter/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/initial-letter/), or 
subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/initial-letter/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/initial-letter/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.3

 * Fix some warnings.
 * Update screenshots.
 * Ensure support for latest WordPress version.

#### 2.2

 * Fix issue where $this cannot be used in anonymous function in < PHP 5.4

#### 2.1

 * Fix PHP warning.
 * Default settings on fresh plugin install.

#### 2.0

 * Move plugin to single php class.
 * Add ability to add/remove per post.
 * More accurate application of initial letter.

#### 1.3

 * Updates for better display and usage.
 * Ability to match font on post.
 * Added more font options.
 * Font size up to 100px.
 * Added padding right option to help dial in spacing.

#### 1.2

Now the if ‘First Paragraph Only’ is selected the plugin will apply to the first
paragraph with text. In previous releases if the first paragraph was empty or was
and html element the style would not show.

#### 1.1

Added option to apply style to First Paragraph Only.

#### 1.0

 * First one!

## Meta

 *  Version **2.3**
 *  Last updated **5 years ago**
 *  Active installations **200+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.6.17**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/initial-letter/)
 * Tags
 * [drop caps](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/drop-caps/)[initial](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/initial/)
   [letter](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/letter/)[style](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/style/)
   [typography](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/typography/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/initial-letter/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3.9 out of 5 stars.

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 *  [  1 2-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/initial-letter/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  1 1-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/initial-letter/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Garrett Grimm ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/grimmdude/)

## Support

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