Text Formatting Plugins


SyntaxHighlighter for Movable Type allows you to easily post syntax highlighted code all without loosing it's formatting or making an manual changes on Movable Type 4 powered by SyntaxHighlighter 2.0....


Allows the creation of new text filters from existing text filters and text modifiers via the MT administration interface, no coding required. If you have ever wanted to use two text filters in the same post (say, Markdown and Smarty...

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a wiki-like syntax for writing guitar tabs....

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Minifier plugin allows you to minify your CSS and JavaScript templates and reduce their file sizes....


The user can switch to a favorite rich text editor. For examples... User A choose a default editor. User B choose a YUI Editor. User C choose a FCKEditor....

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Using this plugin, you can use useful rich text editor 'TinyMCE' in writing your entries. You can select edit buttons you want to use at settings of this plugin. ============ LICENSE MTOS: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2 MT or...


The Custom Asset Markup plugin was created to address the issue in Movable Type 4+ where assets embedded into entries are wrapped with HTML markup that is hard coded into MT::Asset and MT::Asset::Image. Having markup hard-coded into the templates presents...

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Hyphenation for Movable Type provides automatic hyphenation of your text based on OpenOffice hyphenation dictionaries. Automatic hyphenation is very useful if you often use left-aligned or right-aligned images with text flowing along the side of the image in a narrow...

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Curvaceous is a plug-in for Movable Type 4 that causes text to flow smoothly around the edges of irregularly shaped images. Once installed, the plug-in works in the background, converting any images that are either left-aligned or right-aligned....


YUI has become my new favourite Rich Text Editor and I have been implementing it left right and centre. It's extensability, features and ease of use are unparralled. It made sense for all these features to be available to me...

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Zemanta provides contextual content recommendations to you while you write. It enhances your blog post with relevant images, videos, links, and SEO optimized tags. All recommended content is blogger friendly with clearly marked licenses (Creative Commons or similar). A simple...


A Movable Type 4.x plugin to use BBCode-like tag to include external video resource. As an example, you can simply embed an youtube video with this BBCode [yt]eR8swuWfKMI[/yt]...


This plugin provide a framework of that the extensible command buttons to your Movable Type Entry Editor....


Enable you to edit the entry with feeling SAMURAI spirits! (In a word, vertical direction editing)...


Converts TeX formatting to fancy images. Great for mathematical formulas!...

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This plugin utilizes Movable Type 4.1's ability to swap out the default Movable Type Rich Text Editor for a third party one. This plugin makes available the FCKeditor as a rich text editor to choose from inside the application. One...


If you want your multilingual, Unicode text to display in HTML reliably, across different browser encoding settings, MT-UnEntity is for you. It will make sure that your Unicode characters are not displayed as gibberish un-entities. ;) After installing MT-UnEntity, two...


HP Blog Printing makes it easy to add full-featured printing to your blog so users can enjoy a customized read on the go. Starting at the print button, readers can pick and choose the posts they want to print, free...

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Joomsayer is a plug-in for Movable Type 4 that enables you to display quotations in a very catchy quote box. Joomsayer has two special features: Firstly, it displays two quote marks; one in the upper left corner, and one in...


A text filter plugin that uses Kwiki::Formatter....

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Do you prefer to work directly with the HTML when writing a new entry? Are the simple formatting buttons in the MT interface simply not enough for you? MT-Quicktags is likely just the drink to quench your thirst. Despite all...

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This plugin converts ordinary namespace well-formed XHTML+MathML+SVG into the peculiar format demanded by the W3C Validator. The plugin adds a global filter, which you can use in your templates: <MTEntryBody svg_fix="1"> As a bonus, the plugin does the conversion handled...

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Validates entries or comments against a local copy of the W3C Validator. (Original 0.1 version by Alexei Kosut.)...


Converts XHTML and MathML named entities to Numeric Character References. This makes it safe to send XHTML+MathML to XHTML User-Agents (Safari, Opera, ...) which may not have full MathML support....

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Provides two text-filters, converting embedded itex (a dialect of LaTeX) equations into MathML. Bundled with the optional TextileMarkdownMML plugin, which allows you to use itex equations in Textile or Markdown....


Widon't for Movable Type is a plugin to prevent widows from appearing in titles and entry headers. Widows are single words, left on their lonesome on a line at the end of a paragraph, and generally look poo. Widon't simply...

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(En castellano, aqu?ɬ?: DirifyES: arreglando dirify plus.) DirifyES is aimed at archive mapping with fully human readable URLs for accented languages. DirifyES merges both dirify-unicode and dirify-plus....

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Do you like seeing those little smiley emoticons in other people's blog? Then Smilies is the plugin for you! This plugin will add 13 smiley faces to your Movable Type Edit Entry screen. With a click, you can add any...


The Better Entry Preview plugin's purpose is to make the entry preview screen more useful. The included styles give the entry preview environment a feel that a traditional editor might like by using larger type, more line spacing, and a...

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Simply adding smilies in the entries and comments....

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If you're porting a LiveJournal to MovableType, this will make the transition all the more easier.


Movable Type already has entry previewing functionality built in but it is extremely restrictive. It only shows you three fields (title, entry body and extended entry) and you have no idea what it will look like on your weblog, amongst...


Global filter to strips HTML prior to truncating content to n number of words.

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Put a Wiki word in the keywords of a post and have the word auto-linked to that post in other posts.

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Lowdown removes extra information to display plain text only.


Translates plain ASCII punctuation characters into "smart" typographic punctuation HTML entities in DYNAMIC templates.

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Builderoo is a text formatting system for blog entries. Change text filters in the middle of an entry. Apply multiple text filters to a section. Use author-defined macros. Builderoo includes a plugin API, and several powerful example plugins: RooLaTeX, RooLilypond,...

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Wiki markup plugin - you can use Wikipedia like markups with this patch. this use Ajax interface and you can see compiled source code and preview just clicking tabs below the TEXTAREA without any publishment or submitting. This plugin do...

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MT-Farsi, or as it is called in Persian, Farsi Saaz, is a plugin for Movable Type 3.2 (MT) to add some features to it in order to enhance its right to left functionality. Also introducing some language specific features like...

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The plugin contains a text-formatter that allows slightly more control than the normal 'Convert Line Breaks' formatter....


It is a updated version of previous "alogblogMTinterface" plugin. In this version, WYSIWYG FCKeditor is introduced. And by using MT's templates, we can customize FCKeditor's Templates/Styles features easily....


Through our extensive experience developing numerous Movable Type weblogs, we've amassed quite a collection of tiny, but helpful plugins for giving a weblog that little something extra. Too small to release on their own, we've gathered them up into one...


InlineEditor brings to Movable Type a concept first introduced by Jay Allen of Six Apart at his SxSW 2004 panel. Through template tags, InlineEditor adds links to entries in your weblog which when clicked display the entry form inline -...


PoeticForm is a text-to-HTML filter; it translates an easy-to-read / easy-to-write structured text format into HTML. PoeticForm's text format is that of printed poetry where the expected form is lines grouped in stanzas. The final line of the entry may...

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Bö is a preprocessor for John Gruber's Markdown, a text-to-HTML filter that translates an easy-to-read / easy-to-write structured text format into HTML. Its current purpose is to add smart footnote functionality to Markdown. I like footnotes#[foot]. [foot]: Yes, like this....


Fixes control characters inadvertently entered into entries or comments by pasting text containing "smart quotes," etc. This plugin is relevant only to blogs whose character-encoding is iso-8859-1. If you're using utf-8, you probably aren't encountering the problem this plugin set...


Spells out numbers. 1 becomes one, 22 becomes twenty two, etc. <$MTEntryCommentCount number_spell="1"$> comments...

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A text-to-HTML formatter allowing you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). [select from the text-formatting dropdown]...

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A text-formatting plugin that uses HTML Tidy to make valid XHTML and HTML for blog entries in Movable Type [select from Text Formatting menu] <$MTEntryBody tidy="1"$> <MTTidy><$MTEntryBody$></MTTidy>...

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Wrap text into lines of a specified length. <MTTextWrap initial_tab="&lt;br&gt;" subsequent_tab="&lt;br&gt;" columns="40"> <$MTEntryBody$> <$MTEntryMore$> </MTTextWrap>...

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This filter is used to trim and add an ellipsis (…) to a given string published from Movable Type. If the string is less than the given length, the string remains unchanged. <$MTCommentBody ellipsis="70"$>...

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trims a string to the whitespace closest to a given number of characters. It can return the string trimmed to the closest whitespace to the value given, or the last whitespace before, or the next after. <MTEntryTitle TrimWordsbyLen="=15"> gives the...

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Allows you to access the Kwiki metabase. <MTKwiki lastn="3" dir="/home/gavin/htdocs/mt/metabase/metadata"> <$MTKwikiPage$> <$MTKwikiEditBy$> <$MTKwikiEditTime fmt="%D %T"$> </MTKwiki>...

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A MT global filter to make URLs that don't have extended characters in them. <$MTEntryBody safe_urls="1"$> <a href="<$MTLinkUrl safe_url="1" $>"><$MTLinkName$></a>...

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The PurplePlugin is a formatting plugin for MovableType that turns a standard MovableType blog into WikiBlog using PurpleWiki. [select from text formatting dropdown]...

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Acronym is a plugin for Movable Type that adds acronym tags to known acronyms. This text: This is a XHTML test becomes This is a >acronym title="Extensible HyperText Markup Language"<XHTML>/acronym< test which in the web browser is shown like this:...

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Convert characters and sequences to others; stylize text <MTFancyEncoding name="asterisks"> * <sup>*</sup> ** <sup>&dagger;</sup> *** <sup>&Dagger;</sup> </MTFancyEncoding> <$MTEntryBody fancy_encode="asterisks"$>...

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Formatting plugin designed to overcome the limitations of Movable Type's "convert breaks" option. <$MTEntryBody bloxpert="yes"$>...

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Auto-pluralize words, insert commas, and add ordinals to numbers. <MTInsertCommas> <MTth><$MTEntryID$></MTth> of <MTPluralize><$MTBlogEntryCount$> entry</MTPluralize> </MTInsertCommas>...

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Text formatting using Kwiki. [select from Text Formatting dropdown]...

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This MT plugin allows the use of bbstyle tags. [b] [i] [code] It also converts line breaks, and if available runs SmartyPants. [select from the text formatting options]...

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The MTObfuscate tag and obfuscate filter allow you to encode portions of your webpage into a quasi-random string that is emitted using Javascript. Obfuscated content should be safe from spam harvesters and search engines, but will appear as regular HTML...


This is a simple global filter that will lower or UPPER text all text NOT within an HTML tag. <MTEntries text_lower_case="1"> or <MTEntries text_upper_case="1">...

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Uses the Tiki::Text module to format entries. [select from entry edit screen]...


Formats entries written in Perl's Plain Old Documentation (POD) format. =over 4 =item * Ain't =item * life =item * grand? =back...


Text formatting based on the textile codes by Dean Allen. Allows for block level, inline, and character formatting. [select in entry screen]...

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Adds 7 fun text filters to apply to entries. Jive, Texas Drawl, Cockney, Swedish Chef, Valley Girl, German Accent, Hunting Wabbits [select from entry screen]...

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uses Twiki text formatting rules via a container tag in the templates. <MTWikiFormat prefix="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/"> ---MT tags here--- </MTWikiFormat>...

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Takes the vowels out of comments by specified IP addresses. <$MTCommentBody shrpshr="64.95.76.152"$>...

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Removes html from specified fields. <MTStripTags> <$MTEntryBody$> </MTStripTags>...

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Allows for transformation of plain quotes, dashes, and ellipses into more typographically friendly versions. <$MTEntryTitle smarty_pants="1"$>...

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Filters undesired tags out of comments. Allows you to list which tags you do allow, and then it takes any others out, including scripts. <$MTCommentBody sanitize_html="* align,p,br/,a href,b,u,i"$>...

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Uses a table with the first letter or an image to provide a drop cap image for each paragraph. <MTDropCap case="lower"> <MTDropCapFormat> <img align="left" src="/images/letters/<$MTDropCapLetter$>.gif"> </MTDropCapFormat> <$MTEntryBody$> </MTDropCap>...

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Divides up content by columns. <MTColumnize cols="3"> <MTColumnizeText> <MTArchiveList archive_type="Category"> <MTEntries> <li><a href="#<$MTEntryTitle dirify="1"$>"> <$MTEntryTitle$></a> <span style="font-size:10px;">[<$MTEntryCategory$>] </span><br> </MTEntries> <MTColumnizeBreakHere> </MTArchiveList> </MTColumnizeText> <MTColumnizeColumn> <ul style="float:left"> <$MTColumnizePortion$> </ul> </MTColumnizeColumn> </MTColumnize> </ul> <br clear="all">...