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peteheaney/dewidow
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A Twig filter for Craft CMS 3 to remove text widows

1.0.0(8y ago)021MITPHP

Since Jan 24Pushed 8y ago1 watchersCompare

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DeWidow plugin for Craft 3
==========================

[](#dewidow-plugin-for-craft-3)

A Twig filter for Craft 3 to remove text widows.

By replacing the space between the last two words in a string with ` `, this filter will prevent widows on any field containing text.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

This plugin requires Craft 3.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

To install the plugin:

1. open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    `cd /path/to/project`
2. tell Composer to load the plugin:

    ```
     composer require peteheaney/dewidow

    ```
3. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the "Install" button for DeWidow.

Using DeWidow
-------------

[](#using-dewidow)

Simply add the `dewidow` filter to any field containing text and it will remove widows from the text.

```
{{ myTextField | dewidow | raw }}
```

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 47% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3079d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/234166?v=4)[Pete Heaney](/maintainers/peteheaney)[@peteheaney](https://github.com/peteheaney)

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Top Contributors

[![peteheaney](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/234166?v=4)](https://github.com/peteheaney "peteheaney (5 commits)")

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Tags

cmsCraftcraftcmscraft-pluginwidowdewidow

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