Using The Widow Fixer Settings

Widow Fixer Overview

Why Do We Need This

Ever get annoyed by those pesky single words at the end of a sentence or paragraph that sit on their own line? This happens a lot on Divi sites, especially on mobile, and many users don’t even realize it.

Many Divi users find themselves trying all kinds of tricks to eliminate these widows, including soft-returns, resizing text, or CSS methods that simply don’t work. All of these are ineffective, time-consuming, and make your website design inconsistent and sloppy. That’s why we developed the Divi Responsive Helper, an easy way to prevent widows throughout your website with one click of a toggle.

What This Feature Does

This setting checks your paragraph and heading text (depending which settings you are using) and checks how many words on the last line. It automatically forces the words to match the desired setting. If you set the minimum to no less than three words on the last line, it will automatically bump words down so that there are three words on the last line.

How To Use The Widow Fixer Settings

How To Enable The Feature

To begin using the widow fixer, go to the Divi>Theme Options. There you will see a new tab that our plugin adds called “Divi Responsive Helper.” Once you click on that, you will see more tabs. Click on the “Widow Fixer” tab to begin.

Now you can choose which Widow Fixer settings you would like to enable.

Paragraphs

To remove widows from paragraph text, simply enable the Paragraphs toggle.

Minimum Number Of Words On Last Line

Once the Pargraphs toggle is enabled, a new setting will appear with a dropdown. This dropdown is the number of widow words you want to allow on each last line of each paragraph text. You can set this to 2, 3, or 4. It is recommended that you use 2 or 3.

Headings

You can also choose to remove widow words from the last line of heading text, but we recommend using caution with this if you have large or short headlines on your website. For example, if you have a large headline with only 3 words, then on mobile there is no physical way to fix a widow of only one word in that context. However, you can use this feature if your site has reasonably sized text with longer headlines (which are good for SEO anyhow). The Headings widow fixer does not have the option to select a custom number, but is set to 2 by default.

Exclude Pages

You can also choose to exclude specific pages from the Widow Fixer feature. This gives you more control over your website if you want to avoid using this on any particular page if there is some text on that page that is not ideal for the feature.

Select Pages To Exclude

To exclude pages from the Widow Fixer, simply click on them. All pages marked with a green checkmark are included, and any pages marked with an X will be excluded.