albino irishman

I was going to bash out a longer post for this - but brevity would, I’m sure, be welcome for people that would find this most useful. And additionally, the less I say in each post the less I can stuff up.

After doing some serious damage to my [Wordpress][] installation today, where I basically dumped all my themes and plugins into the trash (thankfully the posts are stored elsewhere) on the assumption they wouldn’t be removed, I had to go looking for my [Textile][] and [Markdown][] plugins again. Previously, both of these markup languages were managed by a single plugin that allowed the user to set the language for each post. Unfortunately, as I found when trying Markdown on the blog (the reasons for the need to upgrade to 2.0.3), I couldn’t use this tool to have both types of markup coexisting, i.e., a post using Markdown followed by a post using Textile.

Good news is that you can make this happen without to much fuss and no fiddling around. Simply follow the links and download the plugins available, install them the same way you have with your other plugins, activate, and whamo, you’re up and going!

*Wordpress 2.0 Textile Plugin*
[http://www.huddledmasses.org/jaykul/textile-plugin-26-released/][textile_plugin]

*Wordpress 2.0 Markdown Plugin*
[http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/][markdown_plugin]

*Wordpress 2.0 SmartyPants Plugin*
[http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-smartypants/][smartypants_plugin]

[Wordpress]: http://wordpress.org/
[Textile]: http://textism.com/tools/textile/
[Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

[textile_plugin]: http://www.huddledmasses.org/jaykul/textile-plugin-26-released/
[markdown_plugin]: http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/
[smartypants_plugin]: http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-smartypants/