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I had to update the WordPress plugin for After the Deadline this morning.  Don’t worry, it’s not a security issue or anything crazy.

Visit http://www.afterthedeadline.com/download.slp?platform=Wordpress to get the latest.

I discovered that the AtD Plugin was leaving its markup tags in published HTML.  I noted in my FAQ I consider this kind of behavior a bug. In short–I fixed this and you’ll want to upgrade your AtD plugin to take advantage of it.  To understand more, read on.

AtD hooks into the TinyMCE editor used by WordPress.  I use the “get editor contents” event as an excuse to strip the AtD markup.  One problem with this is when WordPress does its auto-save, the editor contents is grabbed, and the markup is stripped while you’re editing.  FYI–I checked and the built-in spellchecker has this same problem.

I made a work-around awhile ago to fix this.  Unfortunately it left all that content in the editor plugin.

Today I updated the WordPress plugin to strip out the AtD markup from within WordPress (and not the editor).  This has the advantage that it saves you from the disappearing markup annoyance and if you upgrade, all the old posts with the AtD markup will automatically be corrected for you.

For those of you who don’t upgrade, you’ll experience the disappearing markup issue as I decided this was better default behavior than leaving the AtD markup in the post.  Upgrade to fix it.

After the Deadline