WP_CodeShield
I’ve been burned a few times in WordPress when posting something like:
This is how you make text italic:
This is italic.
when I actually wanted:
This is how you make text italic:
<em>This is italic.</em>
Of course it’s not too hard to remember to encode the special characters but this is WordPress and things are supposed to be easy. So I thought I would throw together a simple WordPress plugin to convert HTML special characters inside <code></code> tags. That was a few months ago and I got the plugin most of the way done and then got distracted with other things. But after reading about another person having the same annoyance, I decided I should finish the plugin.