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topshelfcraft/wordsmith
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...because you have the best words.

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Wordsmith
=========

[](#wordsmith)

*a plugin for Craft CMS*

**A [Top Shelf Craft](https://topshelfcraft.com) creation**
[Michael Rog](https://michaelrog.com), Proprietor

...because you have all the best words.

---

tl:dr
-----

[](#tldr)

Wordsmith is a blazing fast, multi-byte safe, one-stop text manipulation toolkit for Craft CMS.

Features
--------

[](#features)

- Trim and truncate text or HTML (by paragraph, word, or character)
- Beautify your typography (smart quotes, widow-prevention, ampersand styling, etc.)
- Change case and inflection
- Transliterate international text
- Search, count, isolate, and replace substrings
- Parse Emoji, using standard and short names
- Parse names to get their parts (e.g. first name, last name, etc.)
- Parse a URL to get its parts (e.g. host name, path, query string, fragment, etc.)
- Get a YouTube or Vimeo video ID from a URL
- Match and re-case Roman numerals
- Calculate text statistics like word count, sentence count, and readability
- Tell whether a variable value is string-like
- ...and much more...

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

[](#installation)

1. From your project directory, use Composer to require the plugin package:

    ```
    composer require topshelfcraft/wordsmith

    ```
2. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Wordsmith.
3. There is no Step 3.

*Wordsmith is also available for installation via the Craft CMS Plugin Store.*

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

A comprehensive [Guide](http://wordsmith.docs.topshelfcraft.com/guide/), along with [Release Notes](http://wordsmith.docs.topshelfcraft.com/releases/), can be found in the documentation:

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###  Health Score

59

—

FairBetter than 98% of packages

Maintenance76

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity46

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community25

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity74

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 90.4% 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

Every ~134 days

Recently: every ~230 days

Total

24

Last Release

73d ago

Major Versions

3.3.1 → 4.0.0.12022-05-16

3.3.1.1 → 4.0.12022-06-05

3.3.2 → 4.1.02022-12-11

4.4.0 → 5.0.02024-06-24

4.5.0 → 5.1.02026-06-06

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7fabbca3f39380eadb6f89517be9a0fbc550159a1eec925452da43d14338de66?d=identicon)[TopShelfCraft](/maintainers/TopShelfCraft)

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Top Contributors

[![michaelrog](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/102379?v=4)](https://github.com/michaelrog "michaelrog (47 commits)")[![angrybrad](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/61869?v=4)](https://github.com/angrybrad "angrybrad (1 commits)")[![louderthan10](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/49751?v=4)](https://github.com/louderthan10 "louderthan10 (1 commits)")[![rogerdawkins](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/42376821?v=4)](https://github.com/rogerdawkins "rogerdawkins (1 commits)")[![Saboteur777](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9061795?v=4)](https://github.com/Saboteur777 "Saboteur777 (1 commits)")[![tremby](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/199635?v=4)](https://github.com/tremby "tremby (1 commits)")

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