Title: Beautify your code
Last modified: December 20, 2016

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# Beautify your code

 *  [jaykul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaykul/)
 * (@jaykul)
 * [22 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/beautify-your-code/)
 * After struggling with textile and ‘wptexturize’ for several hours, I finally 
   got Textile and Beautifier working in tandem. Mostly. Anyway, [a link is obviously in order](http://www.huddledmasses.org/2003/11/5/am-i-beautified/?p=8&more=1&page=2&cat=8).
   You’ll see my code is being syntax highlighted and I am a happy camper.
    Incidentally,
   if you want it, the [whole hack is available](http://www.huddledmasses.org/2003/11/5/am-i-beautified/?cat=8)
   and it’s pretty darn simple to add it to your site. The hardest bit is that on
   top of downloading beautifier, you need to upgrade Textile from the frustratingly
   error prone 1.0 release that’s included with WordPress. (edit: oops, i meant 
   Textile, not texturizer. Freudian slip)

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 *  [Cena (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cena/)
 * (@cena)
 * [22 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/beautify-your-code/#post-25845)
 * Hmm…I’m trying this out but I’m getting a blank page once it’s all said and done.
   Restoring the original textile.php seems to correct this. Is it necessary to 
   change the single character global variables, or can they be left intact?
 *  Thread Starter [jaykul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaykul/)
 * (@jaykul)
 * [22 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/beautify-your-code/#post-25850)
 * Well, when I left them intact, I kept getting “there are no posts that match…”
   on my page.
    Did you just copy my version of the file? (if you click the link
   in the article, you can click the name of the file at the top to see it without
   line numbers (so you can copy and paste).
 *  Thread Starter [jaykul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaykul/)
 * (@jaykul)
 * [22 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/beautify-your-code/#post-25870)
 * Hey, just a couple questions: I was sort-of assuming that nobody was interested
   in this, and then I looked at my server logs and it looks like I’ve gotten a 
   few hits from this thread … so (if anyone out there in dev-land is reading):
   
   1) Since I assume that code beautifying isn’t in high demand, this probably doesn’t
   belong in the default WordPress install, but can I get this put on the ‘official
   hacks’ page? 2) Is there any particular reason why WordPress has it’s own “wptexturize”
   instead of just using the ‘lite’ textile option (or even a very simple modification
   to make a ‘liter still’ option) ?
 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [22 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/beautify-your-code/#post-25871)
 * Because texturize does a lot more than textile with regards to typographic entities.
   Textile is more focused on a shorthand formatting meta-language, parts of which
   will possibly be integrated in the future.
 *  Thread Starter [jaykul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaykul/)
 * (@jaykul)
 * [22 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/beautify-your-code/#post-25872)
 * Hmm. I know on the MT-Textile plugin they used another plugin (SmartyPants) to
   handle encoding quotes and such … I think Beta 2 of Textile does a lot more of
   that … but I guess my next question is: can we make texturize just handle entity
   encoding (or make that part of it seperate)?
    The thing is, I depend on this 
   shorthand entry stuff, it saves me a ton of time. Plus, it enhances the safety
   of my site, because I don’t allow html in my comments at all (but you can format
   using Textile’s shorthand. But I’d still like the nice typographical corrections…
   actually, what I would REALLY like is for the typographical corrections to be
   made on the way IN to the database … I’ll post more about this in a feature request.

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 * Last reply from: [jaykul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaykul/)
 * Last activity: [22 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/beautify-your-code/#post-25872)
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