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Transliterate Arabic

Description

Use simple ‘codes’ in the post editor to insert romanized Arabic letters. The HTML entities for each symbol are inserted into the saved post, so no conversion is needed at display-time.

Usage

In the post editor, simply use the following ‘codes’ to have romanized latin characters inserted in place.

  • ‘/,,/’ → ʾ (ء)
  • ‘/AA/’ → Ā (آ)
  • ‘/aa/’ → ā (آ)
  • ‘/EE/’ → Ī (ي)
  • ‘/ee/’ → ī (ي)
  • ‘/OO/’ → Ū (و)
  • ‘/oo/’ → ū (و)
  • ‘/HH/’ → Ḥ (ح)
  • ‘/hh/’ → ḥ (ح)
  • ‘/KH/’ → Ḵ (خ)
  • ‘/kh/’ → ḵ (خ)
  • ‘/DH/’ → Ḏ (ذ)
  • ‘/dh/’ → ḏ (ذ)
  • ‘/SH/’ → Š (ش)
  • ‘/sh/’ → š (ش)
  • ‘/SS/’ → Ṣ (ص)
  • ‘/ss/’ → ṣ (ص)
  • ‘/DD/’ → Ḍ (ض)
  • ‘/dd/’ → ḍ (ض)
  • ‘/TT/’ → Ṭ (ط)
  • ‘/tt/’ → ṭ (ط)
  • ‘/ZZ/’ → Ẓ (ظ)
  • ‘/zz/’ → ẓ (ظ)
  • ‘/cc/’ → ʿ (ع)
  • ‘/GH/’ → Ġ (غ)
  • ‘/gh/’ → ġ (غ)

Examples

  • kit/aa/b → kitāb
  • /cc/arab/ee/ → ʿarabī
  • /AA/jurr/oo/m/ee/yah → Ājurrūmīyah

Installation

  1. Upload the folder transliterate-arabic with its contents to the /wp-content/plugins directory
  2. Activate the plugin from the Plugins page in WordPress Admin

FAQ

Installation Instructions
  1. Upload the folder transliterate-arabic with its contents to the /wp-content/plugins directory
  2. Activate the plugin from the Plugins page in WordPress Admin

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Contributors & Developers

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Changelog

1.0.7

Added support for the basmalah and salat and salam. Replaced HTML entity codes with characters.

1.0.6

Added support for more letters. Change of ‘code’ for letter ghayn.

1.0.5

Letter hamza now works properly.
Correct code for hamza “/,,/”

1.0.4

Bug fix

1.0.4

Added support for letter hamza.

1.0.0

Initial release.