Code Markup is a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to include program code samples in your posts. You can even include HTML markup in the code sample; Code Markup magically knows which characters should be displayed as code and which should be rendered as HTML. Continue reading “Code Markup: WordPress plugin” →

Top Cat is a WordPress plugin that allows you to specify a main category for your posts. Even though WordPress posts can have more than one category, you may want to specify which of them is the main category. Top Cat lets you do this and also provides template tags for displaying the main category of each post. Continue reading “Top Cat: a WordPress plugin” →

Evermore is a WordPress plugin that automatically abbreviates all posts when they appear on a multiple-post page such as the main blog page. Readers will simply see a “teaser” rather than the full post. It has the same effect as putting <!--more--> after the first paragraph of every post. All formatting and HTML tags are preserved in the abbreviated post. Continue reading “Evermore: a WordPress plugin” →

In WordPress 1.5, permalinks must end in a slash, otherwise the nextpage tag will not work.

In the Options/Permalinks screen of WordPress’s admin interface, I had my permalink format set to Continue reading “WordPress permalinks should be slashed” →