Jul 8, 2009 by Matt | Posted in Featured, WordPress
I’ve been working on a neat enhancement for my Tweetable WordPress plugin. Already I have a handy “Documentation” link on the plugin’s pages in the WordPress admin. When clicked, it opens a ThickBox dialog pointing to the README.txt file.
Not bad, but it had a few rough edges. Raw markdown doesn’t look look stellar, and then there was the problem with the horizontal scrollbars that would appear from loading a plain text file into the ThickBox. So I made a new script that would load-up the README.txt file and use Regular Expressions to parse some of the more basic markdown syntax into good old HTML.
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