Smart Quotes
Change the quotation marks, that are automatically rendered as smart or curly quotes inside your content, from the default English style (“…”) to anything you like, e.g. to Croatian/Hungarian/Polish/Romanian style…
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Smart Quotes shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 90+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 14 years ago, and scores 32/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (90+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
- No update in 13 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 3.6 (latest is 7.1)
How does it stack up?
Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & supportDaily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Smart Quotes stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| curly | >100 |
| curly quotes | #55 |
| quotes | >100 |
| Smart Quotes | >100 |
| wptexturize | #58 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 1 reviews
About Smart Quotes
From the official readme · v0.4Description
Change the quotation marks, that are automatically rendered as smart or curly quotes inside your content, from the default English style (“…”) to anything you like, e.g. to Croatian/Hungarian/Polish/Romanian style quotation marks („…”), Czech or German style („…“), Danish style (»…«), Finnish or Swedish style (”…”), French style (« … » – with spaces), Greek/Italian/Norwegian/Portuguese/Russian/Spanish/Swiss style («…» – without spaces), Japanese or Traditional Chinese style (「⋯」), or actually to any arbitrary character combination of your choice. Of course you can turn off curly quotes entirely by picking the so-called "dumb" quotes ("…").
Installation
- Upload the entire
smart-quotesfolder to the wp-content/plugins directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Go to the ‘Writing Settings’ screen where you will be able to configure your ‘Smart Quotes’
Changelog
compatibility with WordPress 3.4 and 3.5
0.4
- compatibility with WordPress 3.4 and 3.5
- fixed bug where stylesheet (for admin) and plugin action links did not load correctly when plugin was loaded from symlinked directory
0.3
- fixed bug where CSS styles for <q> element were styled incorrectly when user hadn’t picked quotation marks
- i18n
- L10n for German (de_DE)
- tested with older WordPress versions: now tagged to require 2.9 (instead of 3.2)
0.2
- added support for the <q> element
- admin stylesheet cleanup (no longer using unit “px”)
- link to “Writing Settings” page on “Plugins” page
0.1
- initial public release
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Best Smart Quotes alternatives
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| 1 |
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FAQ
Smart Quotes: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 10, 2026
Is Smart Quotes free?
Yes. Smart Quotes is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Smart Quotes safe to use in 2026?
Smart Quotes shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 90+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 14 years ago, and scores 32/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Smart Quotes?
Smart Quotes is active on 90+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 4,992 times since it launched in December 2011. It was downloaded 80 times in the last 30 days.
Does Smart Quotes work with WordPress 7.1?
Smart Quotes is officially tested up to WordPress 3.6.1, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was Smart Quotes last updated?
The latest version, 0.4, was released on April 11, 2013 (14 years ago).
Who makes Smart Quotes?
Smart Quotes is developed and maintained by Martin Lormes.
What are the best alternatives to Smart Quotes?
The most popular alternatives to Smart Quotes are Smart Quote Fixer (100+ installs).
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