About this plugin
” in your content to the Indian Rupee symbol (₹) — the official sign for the Indian Rupee (INR), Unicode code point U+20B9.
100, or Rs. 100 written in your posts, pages, excerpts, and text widgets is rendered as ₹ 100 on the front end. No JavaScript, no bundled fonts, no external requests, no configuration.
Why a plugin for the rupee symbol?
The ₹ symbol was introduced by the Government of India in 2010 and added to Unicode the same year. ” because the Unicode character wasn’t widely supported at the time. This plugin upgrades that legacy text to the modern Indian Rupee symbol on the fly — without you having to find-and-replace anything in your database.
Features
- Server-side conversion — runs in PHP via standard WordPress filters; no flash of unconverted content.
- Zero front-end overhead — no JavaScript, no CSS, no font files loaded on your site.
- Zero configuration — install, activate, done.
- Word-boundary matching — words like “Mrs” and “users” are never touched.
- Code-safe — text inside <script>, <style>, <pre>, <code>, and <textarea> is left alone.
- Block editor and classic editor both supported.
- Filters covered: the_content, the_excerpt, widget_text, widget_block_content.
- Single PHP file — no dependencies, no admin UI, no database tables.
Common use cases
- Indian blogs and news sites with legacy “Rs” pricing in older articles.
- Business and personal sites listing prices in Indian Rupees.
- Travel, finance, and review sites that mention rupee amounts in post content.
- Any WordPress site migrating older content to the modern Unicode rupee symbol.
About the Indian Rupee Symbol (₹)
The Indian Rupee sign (₹) was officially adopted by the Government of India on 15 July 2010, designed by D. Udaya Kumar of IIT Guwahati. The design combines the Devanagari letter “र” (ra) with a horizontal stroke representing the Indian tricolour.
0, and the ISO 4217 currency code for the Indian Rupee is INR.