Title: Text Control
Author: Frank Bueltge
Published: <strong>August 31, 2009</strong>
Last modified: October 31, 2013

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Text Control

 By [Frank Bueltge](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bueltge/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/text-control-2.2.3.1.zip)

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## Description

Text Control will allow you to choose from a variety of formatting syntaxes and 
encoding options. You can choose between Markdown, Textile 1, Textile 2, nl2br, 
WPautop, and “No Formatting” for formatting along with the choice of SmartyPants,
WPTexturize or “No Encoding” for character encodings.

#### Localizations

 * Thanks to [Frank Bültge](http://bueltge.de/) for german language file
 * Thanks to [Brian Flores](http://www.inmotionhosting.com/) for spanish translation
 * Lithuanian translation files by [Vincent G](http://www.host1plus.com)
 * 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.

#### Acknowledgements

 * Romanian language files, thanks to [Alexander Ovsov](http://webhostinggeeks.com/)
 * Native Serbo-Croatian language files, thanks to [Borisa Djuraskovic](http://www.webhostinghub.com/)

#### Licence

Good news, this plugin is free for everyone! Since it’s released under the GPL, 
you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog. But if you enjoy
this plugin, you can thank me and leave a [small donation](http://bueltge.de/wunschliste/)
for the time I’ve spent writing and supporting this plugin. And I really don’t want
to know how many hours of my life this plugin has already eaten 😉

#### Translations

The plugin comes with various translations, please refer to the [WordPress Codex](https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language)
for more information about activating the translation. If you want to help to translate
the plugin to your language, please have a look at the .pot file which contains 
all defintions and may be used with a [gettext](http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/)
editor like [Poedit](http://www.poedit.net/) (Windows) or plugin for WordPress [Localization](https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codestyling-localization/).

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Options in WP 2.9-rare
 * [[
 * Settings on post in WP 2.9-rare
 * [[
 * 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.
 * [[
 * The mechanism for setting per-post formatting options.

## Installation

#### Requirements

 * WordPress version 1.5 and later

#### Installation

 1. Download
 2. Unzip and upload into wp-content/plugins/
 3. Activate in the Plugins section of your admin panel

#### Usage

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 >> `Options` >> `Text Control`“.

Finally, you can set text processing for all comments as well. Set this up in the“
Comments” options in “Your site Admin page >> `Options` >> `Text Control`“.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Text Control” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Frank Bueltge ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bueltge/)

[Translate “Text Control” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/text-control-2)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-control-2/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/text-control-2/), or 
subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/text-control-2/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/text-control-2/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.3.1

 * Add also settings for pages

#### 2.3.0

 * Check on WP 3.2*, change different source, remove sql-queries and use WP-functions

#### 2.2.3

 * WordPress 2.7 ready, new functions for more comfort

#### 2.2.2

 * WP 2.5 ready, new metabox-function etc.

#### 2.0b

 * Name changed from MTSpp to Text Control. Heavy updates!

#### 1.0.1

 * Changed a variable so that this would actually work in places like, oh ya know,
   the index.php file (places where s_single would be false.)

#### 1.0

 * Introduction

## Meta

 *  Version **2.3.1**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **100+**
 *  WordPress version ** 1.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.7.41**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/text-control-2/)
 * Tags
 * [Encoding](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/encoding/)[format](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/format/)
   [formatting](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/formatting/)[post](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/text-control-2/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.7 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Frank Bueltge ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bueltge/)

## Support

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## Donate

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 [ Donate to this plugin ](http://bueltge.de/wunschliste/)