I installed the Plugin Manager last night while trying to make some more sense of the challenge that is generating XHTML valid pages.
I can’t remember enough of what I have tried to recount the steps: I do know that cleaning up the templates (as previously documented) is essential. A nice addition to your toolchain is “Brad Choate’s latest Textile plugin . . . “:http://www.bradchoate.com/weblog/2004/02/05/textile-tips.
But one benefit is that local wiseguy “JimFl”:http://jimfl.tensegrity.net/eb has packaged up his nifty Zeitgeist module for inclusion in the master plugin directory. the “output it creates”:/movabletype/zeitgeist.html has been one of the top 5 most requested pages on my site since I implemented it.
How does it work? Take a look . . .
!/movabletype/images/how_textile_works.jpg 475×509 (how_textile_works)!
See the before and after in the markup? And note that ecto supports textile formatting in its previews. How cool is that?