The Text Filter Suite (”TFS”, hereafter) is a WordPress plugin which adds some new text filtering functions. In a sense, the core TFS functions could be considered a “meta filter”, because they actually provide a framework that let you construct new filters fairly easily. They also provide an easy way to apply filters to post content and comments on a per-post basis.

– From the Readme file.

Dougal announces a Text Filter Suite, something that should be an essential plugin for every blog. It is the answer to the question, “how do I control text formatting plugins or filters on a per-post basis?”, and that alone makes it worthwhile.

If that were not enough you can apply fudd, chef, jive, kraut, pirate, or acronymit to any page, just like that.

What resources do you think new users need to help them modify their designs — what appears in index.php and how?

I am not looking for links here. Please post what you think makes a complete set of helpful documents for someone customizing the default WordPress template?

I have some ideas of my own, but I’d like to hear what you have to say, and then put together the links, and create any essential documents that might be missing.

Thank you.