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What is textile?

Textile is a lightweight markup language, called as simple text markup. Using Textile, document can be converted to HTML for viewing on the web.

What is Markdown?

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

What is nl2br?

Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string, Returns string with '<br />' or '<br>' inserted before all newlines.

What is WPautop?

WPautop is WORDPRESS default Formatting style.

What is No Formatting?

Html will avoid using tags like <b>, <i> for formatting output.

what is SmartyPants?

It easily translates plain ASCII punctuation characters into "smart" typographic punctuation HTML entities, can perform like:

• Backticks-style quotes ("like this") into "curly" quote HTML entities
• Dashes ("--" and "---") into en- and em-dash entities
• Three consecutive dots ("...") into an ellipsis entity

what is WPtexturize?

The Wordpress texturizer is one of many functions that format your posts and comments. This one in particular is responsible for converting your conventional keyboard formatting marks into more aesthetically pleasing entities that aren’t readily available on the keyboard.

What is No Encoding?

This option will not perform any activity for converting data or information into HTML codes, it displays your post information without encoding into HTML format.