So much of those out-of-town posts! Back to my normal life, and to the kitchen! Did I say kitchen?!!! I’m blogging for …cooking (the life)? LOL! But how I wish I’m really “back-to-my-normal-life” which would mean, I really went off of it. Gone easy, to the beaches, relaxing, and stuff like that, but I didn’t 
, not much!
This kitchen I’m referring here is the back-end, of the CMS I’m working on, where stuff on the front-end – basically the HTML and the data within is being prepared. Been tidy from the start, indentions, and phpDoc blocks. I thought why not take this quality of code up to the front. What exactly I’m talking about?
Here. Don’t you wish when you look at the HTML source of your published page you have a well formatted document tree? That instead of this
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It would have rendered like this
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Neat! So, let’s go with the ingredients, I mean the tools/modules needed for this.
HTML Tidy
wiki: is a computer program and a library the purpose of which is to fix invalid HTML and to improve the layout and indent style of the resulting markup. Install instructions here. See that? It also fixes invalid HTML!
And, since I’m using Smarty, this line is called before the $smarty->display(); method.
// this way $smarty->load_filter("output", "tidyrepairhtml"); // or $smarty->register_outputfilter("tidyrepairhtml");
You got nice and neat HTML source! Which takes me to thinking, perhaps, someone had already written a WP plugin of tidy. Let me try google it. And yes, there’s available plugin.