Textile and HTML
Since all the previous posts and comments we imported from Movable Type had used the Textile plugin there, we had to enable the Textile 2.5 plugin for Wordpress. Ideally I would like to move away from Textile since Wordpress uses dynamic pages which means that The Textile plugin is applied to each post as it is rendered rather than once when it is saved as in Movable Type. But that would require editing all the previous posts and comments since Wordpress does not allow one to change the text filter per post.
One side-effect of the Textile plugin in Wordpress is that it is not allowing any regular HTML in the comments. Somehow, I can still include regular HTML in posts. Strange!
For now, I have added the instructions about how to comment in Urdu so that the correct styling is applied to the Urdu text. For other things, like hyperlinks, bold, etc., please take a look at the Textile usage instructions starting at line 67 at the linked page.
I’ll see if I can modify the plugin so that you can use either regular HTML or Textile tags, just like you could on the old Movable Type blog.
For the medium to long term, I would like to add quicktags to the comment textbox so that commenters can just click on the buttons provided to bold some text or create a hyperlink or mark word(s) or paragraphs as being in Urdu or English, etc.
UPDATE: Now you can use HTML in comments. However, for Urdu styling, use the instructions above the comment box.
July 31st, 2005 at 4:49 am
Let’s see if I can add HTML tags now.
A link to my blog, Procrastination.
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July 31st, 2005 at 6:02 am
well u ppl are doing a good job regarding blogging in urdu.
what r the steps required to publish posts in urdu? i need help on this.
Your early reply in this regard will be highly appreciated.
Regards,
munir.
August 3rd, 2005 at 11:05 am
Just curious to know how do you guys write urdu from dashboard? Do you write this hideous code aka “p[ur](urdu).” yourself? Well, I was quite pissed off having to do the same even though I have p class=”urdu” but anyhow I have updated my quicktags.js which includes Urdu paragraph and Blockquote in toggle links. I think the same would have to be done for the comments file.
I also see there hasn’t been any improvement or advancement on themes side. The last thing which was being discussed was the possibility of blix which isn’t a bad theme but not sure what are the updates… Are you guys gonna stick with this default one? Well, at least customise this theme then e.g. including sidebar and some other goodies, you know?
August 4th, 2005 at 1:08 am
Munir: Take a look at our Urdu Wiki for some help in Urdu blogging.
Ejaz:
Yes, the same way as here. Yes, I know it needs to be made simpler.
How about I volunteer your services for that?
In progress. Will be done soon.