I really should give the reStructuredText plugin for WordPress some love. Until I do, please mind the piles of dust and crumbs left by a slightly misconfigured WordPress instance. :-)
The reStructuredText for WordPress project now has a home on Launchpad.
Like any other narcissistic programmer, I'd love to create the worlds billionth blog platform using Python, Schevo, and using reStructuredText as the native posting format.
As it stands though, I have more interesting things to do with my time, and WordPress definitely does a fantastic job providing a blogging platform.
Throughout the last several years, as I've blogged off and on, I've enjoyed using reST through most of that experience, with both PyBlosxom and WordPress. With regards to WordPress, it appears that several others have also enjoyed the plugin, including the following folks:
They have all contributed a lot to the plugin in the form of improvements and documentation, but until now it has been an uncoordinated effort, and I'm pretty sure we are all running different versions of the plugin. :-)
Now that the project is at Launchpad, and I've pushed a trunk branch there using Bazaar, perhaps we can all get together and slowly but surely integrate all of the improvements people have made, and work toward an even better (and more easily installable) version of the plugin for all interested parties to use.
Thanks to everyone who uses this plugin and has contributed to it!
I just converted most of my posts to use reStructuredText, using the same plugin my old "webrog" blog used. Because I haven't seen any recent posts that make mention of this, I thought I'd post here about it in case anyone else looks for the same thing.
The only thing I had to do was edit my wp-content/themes/default/index.php file to change the text "Read the rest of this entry" in the call to the_content on line 14 to this instead:
<?php the_content('(more...)'); ?>
Alternatively, you could edit the plugin itself to better handle "more" tags within entries.
Happy reST+WordPress blogging!
Update 2007-09-08: This plugin is now a Launchpad project (see the announcement). The link above has been updated accordingly. If you are looking for a way to download the latest rest.php file containing the plugin, view the files for the project, then click the Download link on the right-hand side of the rest.php row.