Plugin Name: WordPress AutoLink
Plugin URI: http://rudd-o.com/projects/wp-autolink/
Description: Break free from linkrot and complicated URLs in your posts and pages
Author: Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)
Author URI: http://rudd-o.com/

This plugin provides four features:

1. Lets you use shortcuts for typing URLs to posts, pages and content files
AutoLink lets you insert hyperlinks, content and images in your posts and pages with easy-to-type shortcut URLs, which don't become invalid when you change your WordPress content directory or the permalink structure of your site

2. Prevents linkrot on your weblog
AutoLink it replaces permalinks to posts, pages or URLs to files in your blog' content directory with shortcut URLs, so they do not become invalid in the event that you change your WordPress content directory, or move your blog to a different host or URL. This replacement is fully transparent - when you edit a post or a page, AutoLink automatically replaces the shortcut URL with the correct permalink, and restores the shortcut URL when you save the post you were editing   AutoLink will also replace URLs to files in your blog' content directory, if it finds them in embedded JavaScript attributes (onclick, onblur, onmouseover, and so on) 

3. Makes your weblog more accessible for disabled people and search engines
Links from any of your posts to another will automatically contain a title attribute, with the title of the article they point to.  This attribute only appears on hyperlinks which did not have a title attribute before, and it does not get saved to the database, to simplify your posts' markup.

4. Automatically assigns rel="lightbox" on the hyperlinks of thumbnail images that point to full-size images.  That way, if you're using the Lightbox JS WordPress plugin, you don't need to do anything else to have your image galleries pop up in full Lightbox splendor.

It performs these features by processing all tags and modifying the href="...", cite="..." and src="..." attributes, through the usage of the TagMogrify library, a superb library which lets you perform fast and easy-to-program transformations on XML documents.  The TagMogrify library requires the PHP XML extension (usually distributed as the 'php-dom' package). For more information visit http://rudd-o.com/projects/tagmogrify/

This plugin is fully compatible with WordPress 2.0.

* User's guide *

Documentation is no longer included here because the Web site is always more up to date, and it's a real chore to have it and this README synchronized.  Go to:

	http://rudd-o.com/projects/wp-autolink/wp-autolink-usage/

* Known bugs *

HTML tags that have no content, such as <a id="someanchor"></a> get changed to <a id="someanchor"/> which is not valid XHTML.  A fix for the special case of the <a id="more-XXXX"></a> More... WordPress anchor has been included on board, so AutoLink does not cause invalid HTML code en-masse.  This is a bug of the underlying XML processor, and there's no known quick fix at the moment.

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