=== Post Format Control ===
Contributors: MaxBlogPress Revived
Tags: post, posts, format, formatting, encoding
Requires at least: 2.0
Tested up to: 2.8.2
Stable tag: trunk

Take complete control of text formatting options on your blog: Formatting and encoding per post, globally on posts, and globally on comments.

== Description ==

This plugin gives administrator a complete control for formatting and encoding indivisual blog post on Posts & Comments.The administrator can use Formatting options as:

*   "Textile 1" is a lightweight markup language, can convert words or phrased to HTML form.
*   "Textile 2" is also a lightweight markup language, can convert words or phrased to HTML form.
*   "nl2br" which can insert HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string.
*   "WPautop" is [WordPress][wordpress link] default Formatting style.
*   "No Formatting" Html will avoid using tags like '<b>', '<i>' for formatting output.

similarly, Encoding options as:

*   "WPTexturize" is [WordPress] [wordpress link] default encoding.
*   "SmartyPants" It easily translates plain ASCII punctuation characters into "smart" typographic punctuation HTML entities.
*   "No Encoding" will not perform any activity for converting data or information into HTML codes

[wordpress link]:http://www.wordpress.com


== Installation ==

1. Download "Post Format Control" plugin.
1. Open /wp-content/plugins folder at your web server.
1. Upload the folder "post-format-control" there.
1. Goto Plugins page in your wordpress back office.
1. Activate "Post Format Control" plugin.
1. Go to Settings >> Post Format Control for modifying the settings.

Note: This plugin will require one time free registration.



== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= What is textile? =
Textile is a lightweight markup language, called as simple text markup. Using Textile, document can be converted to HTML for viewing on the web. 

= What is Markdown? =
Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

= What is nl2br? =
Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string, Returns string with '<br />' or '<br>' inserted before all newlines.

= What is WPautop? =
WPautop is WORDPRESS default Formatting style.


= What is No Formatting? =
Html will avoid using tags like <b>, <i> for formatting output.

= what is SmartyPants? =
It easily translates plain ASCII punctuation characters into "smart" typographic punctuation HTML entities, can perform like:

* Backticks-style quotes ("like this") into "curly" quote HTML entities
* Dashes ("--" and "---") into en- and em-dash entities
* Three consecutive dots ("...") into an ellipsis entity


= what is WPtexturize? =
The Wordpress texturizer is one of many functions that format your posts and comments. This one in particular is responsible for converting your conventional keyboard formatting marks into more aesthetically pleasing entities that aren’t readily available on the keyboard.

= What is No Encoding? =
This option will not perform any activity for converting data or information into HTML codes, it displays your post information without encoding into HTML format. 


== Screenshots ==

1. A shot of the configuration options that show up in your admin section allowing you to detup how the blog will parse entries and comments by default.
2. The mechanism for setting per-post formatting options.
3. Formatting drop down options on "Add New Post" and "Edit post" page. 
4. Encoding drop down options on "Add New Post" and "Edit Post" page.

== Change Log ==

= Version 3.0 (07-09-2009) =
* New: First Release
= Version 3.1 (07-23-2009) =
* Fixed: Post format control's options not being shown in write page section


== How to use it ==

* Go to Settings >> Post Format Control
* When installed, this plugin will format text the exact same way that WordPress does by default.You can define which text formatting engine to use by changing the values in the drop down menu on individual post pages
* Additionally, you can change the defaults on a blog-wide basis by changing the "Posts & Excerpts" options in "Your site Admin page >> Settings >> Post Format Control Config ".
* Finally, you can set text processing for all comments as well. Set this up in the "Comments" options in "Your site Admin page >> Settings >> Post Format Control Config ".


== KNOWN ISSUES ==

 * Not really a bug so much, but an issue: Textile 2 is freaking huge (145k > 4000 lines of code) so it can be quite a burden on your server. If you can get away with *not* using it, I highly reccomend you do so.
 * Additionally, in Textile 2 there is a feature that would grab an image via PHP and get it's height and width for placing in the IMG tags. This has been disabled It literally took a post from 1 second to display straight to 6 seconds -- completely unacceptable.