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I often add   between connecting words so they break down together to a new line in important text. Switching to visual tab then back to text tab removes these. What can I do to keep them and avoid TinyMCE removing them?

I found this but not sure how to apply it to WordPress: https://www.abeautifulsite.net/tinymce-removes-non-breaking-spaces

My ugly solutions would be using a different custom string between words__like__this then later replacing them to   in PHP, before display. Or just typing it on the visual tab, which translates to   but then converting them with PHP.

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This seems to do it:

function allow_nbsp_in_tinymce( $mceInit ) {
    $mceInit['entities'] = '160,nbsp,38,amp,60,lt,62,gt';   
    $mceInit['entity_encoding'] = 'named';
    return $mceInit;
}
add_filter( 'tiny_mce_before_init', 'allow_nbsp_in_tinymce' );

Also see: https://www.tinymce.com/docs/configure/content-filtering/#entities

Any improvement suggestions?

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    Small improvement: you don’t have to repeat the existing entities (amp, lt, gt) in the config: $mceInit['entities'] .= ',160,nbsp';
    – Geert
    Sep 3, 2016 at 14:42
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    By the way, many may find it useful to also preserve soft hyphens. Just add 173,shy to the entities list.
    – Geert
    Sep 3, 2016 at 14:54
  • Is there is a documentation on add_filter() or something? How to implement this in TinyMCE 4.x?
    – Slava
    Nov 15, 2017 at 20:44
  • @Alph.Dev add_filter() is a wordpress function : developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_filter
    – Andrew Magill
    Mar 14, 2019 at 14:03
  • Does this will work with elementor
    – Sanjay Goswami
    Jun 24, 2020 at 20:38

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