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Kirby Proofreader adds a Panel button on Kirby CMS for reviewing typographic corrections in content views before applying them. Field changes are saved to Kirby's changes version, title fixes use Kirby's native title action and save immediately.

Requirements

• Kirby 5+
• PHP 8.2+

Installation

composer require grommasdietz/kirby-proofreader

Tip

If you don’t use Composer, you can download this repository and copy it to site/plugins/kirby-proofreader.

Quickstart

Add the button to a page, site, file, user or custom area blueprint:

buttons:
  proofreader: true
  languages: true
  status: true
  settings: true

Options

The default rule order is unicode, ellipsis, quotes, apostrophes, dashes, spaces. dimensions and paragraphs are predefined optional rules. dimensions handles values such as 5 x 5 cm; paragraphs removes empty HTML paragraphs and stale trailing whitespace or <br> tags from paragraph ends. Rules can be reordered, disabled or extended. Configure via site/config/config.php:

return [
    'grommasdietz.proofreader.rules' => [
        'unicode',
        'ellipsis',
        'quotes' => false,
        'apostrophes',
        'dashes',
        'spaces',
        'dimensions',
        'paragraphs',
        'trademark' => [
            'label' => 'Trademark',
            'callback' => static fn (string $text): string => str_replace(
                'Label TM',
                'Label™',
                $text
            ),
        ],
    ],
];

The keyed false entry disables the built-in quotes rule. The keyed trademark array adds a custom callback rule.

Quote characters, dash characters and dash spacing follow Kirby's native SmartyPants options when configured globally or per language. Single-language installs need SmartyPants configuration to enable quote rule.

Default field coverage includes text, textarea, writer, list, structure, entries, blocks and layout fields. Custom field names or types can be included or excluded:

return [
    'grommasdietz.proofreader.fields' => [
        'include' => [
            'types' => [
                'custom-writer' => 'html',
                'custom-text' => 'plain',
                'custom-structure' => 'structure',
                'custom-entries' => 'entries',
            ],
            'names' => [
                'intro' => 'plain',
            ],
        ],
        'exclude' => [
            'types' => ['text', 'textarea'],
            'names' => ['intro'],
        ],
    ],
];

Use grommasdietz.proofreader.protect to prevent specific text spans from being modified by any rule. The built-in phone preset protects international (+49 89 …) and domestic chained (0800-123-4567) numbers. Arbitrary regex patterns are accepted for other span types:

return [
    'grommasdietz.proofreader.protect' => [
        'phone'      => true,
        'skuPattern' => '/\bSKU-\d+-\d+\b/u',
    ],
];

CLI

With the Kirby CLI installed, fixes can also be applied from the command line:

# Preview suggestions (read-only)
kirby proofreader:review projects/my-project

# Fix a page (saved as unpublished changes)
kirby proofreader:fix projects/my-project

# Fix all pages and publish immediately
kirby proofreader:fix --all --publish

# Fix only one field across all pages
kirby proofreader:fix --all --field=summary

# Dry-run batch fix
kirby proofreader:fix --all --dry-run

See docs/usage/index.md for the full flag reference.

Documentation

Full reference for usage, contributions and maintenance lives in documentation.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for version history and changes.

Security

See SECURITY.md for security policies and reporting vulnerabilities.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidance and expectations.

License

MIT © 2026 Grommas Dietz