It's 2010, and we still need to manually encode our links in Wordpress! That's silly.

URLizer is a Wordpress plugin that automagically converts your URLs into links for you if you don't care about link text.

i.e. if your blog posts goes like this:

This is a link to http://www.supermind.org

URLizer will, at runtime, convert that to

This is a link to http://www.supermind.org

Syntax

URLizer looks for a URL surrounded by whitespace and only substitutes those.

The following URLs will therefore NOT be substituted.

<a href="http://www.lucenetutorial.com">Lucene Tutorial</a>

This is <br>http://www.supermind.org

This is http://www.supermind.org<br>

The following URLS will be substituted, perhaps unwantedly.

<a href="http://www.lucenetutorial.com">a link http://www.supermind.org </a>

will become

<a href="http://www.lucenetutorial.com">a link <a href="http://www.supermind.org">http://www.supermind.org </a>

Punctuation

In addition to whitespace, URLizer also detects punctuation, specifically period, comma and exclamation.

The following URLs therefore do get substituted.

This is a link to http://www.supermind.org.

This is a link to http://www.supermind.org, ok?

This is a link to http://www.supermind.org?