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 …
4.7(3 reviews)
·100 active installs·Updated 12 years agoAs of April 2026, Text Control is a WordPress post plugin with 100 active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 14K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 1.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 12 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Header and Footer Scripts.
4.7/53 reviews
100active installs
14K+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
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…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.73 reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 1.5+ requiredTested up to 3.7.41 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.3.1
- Add also settings for pages
Contributors
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