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Text Control
Text Control will allow you to choose from a variety of formatting syntaxes and encoding options. You can choose between Markdown, Textile 1, Textile …
The facts
- Rating
- 4.7★ from 3
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 31 Oct 2013
- Added
- Aug 2009
- Requires WP
- 1.5
- Tested up to
- WP 3.7.41
- Downloads
- 14,810
Our analysis
AI-assistedText Control is a WordPress plugin that allows you to select from various formatting syntaxes and encoding options, including Markdown and Textile. It provides flexibility in how content is formatted and encoded, catering to users who need specific text handling features.
This plugin is suitable for those who are familiar with different formatting syntaxes and want to control how their text appears on their WordPress site. It is particularly useful for multilingual sites, given its support for various translations.
Best for: This plugin suits users who require specific text formatting and encoding options on their WordPress sites.
What it does well
- ✓Offers multiple formatting syntaxes like Markdown and Textile
- ✓Includes options for character encoding
- ✓Supports various translations for different languages
- ✓Free to use under the GPL license
Where it falls short
- •Textile 2 can significantly increase server load
- •Performance issues noted with certain features
Verdict
Text Control provides useful formatting options for those who need them, but potential performance issues should be considered.
From the developer
Frank Bueltge's own description of Text Control, lightly tidied.
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 for german language file
- Thanks to Brian Flores for spanish translation
- Lithuanian translation files by Vincent G
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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.
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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
- Native Serbo-Croatian language files, thanks to Borisa Djuraskovic
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 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 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 editor like Poedit (Windows) or plugin for WordPress Localization.
Tagged as
purpose
Multilingual & Translation
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