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This plugin gives you a wide range of modifications at hand **without any core or theme code changes** - making them persistent across updates or switching to another theme.\n\nth23 Specials core features include (all available as options in admin dashboard):\n\n* Mail sending via **SMTP server** instead of default PHP mail function - and with custom subject prefix\n* **Revision and edit restrictions** for posts and pages\n* **Highlighting in titles** of posts and pages - for custom styling via theme\n* **Category selection** via radio button, forcing single category assignment and option to restrict available categories - via Classic and Gutenberg / Block editor\n* **Excerpts** for pages\n* **Sticky posts** also sticky on archive pages\n* Disabling **author links and archives**\n* Enforcing usage of **more tag / block / separator** in posts and pages - preventing too long full text display on home and overview pages\n* Disable various **headers** - core version info, links, jQuery Migrate, inline CSS, emojis, oEmbed, legacy contact options\n\n\u003e \u003cimg alt=\"\" title=\"Settings section in the admin dashboard with easy to reach options\" src=\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/th23x/th23-specials/refs/heads/main/assets/screenshot-1.jpg?v=6.0.3\" width=\"400\"\u003e\n\u003e \u003cimg alt=\"\" title=\"Category selection (when limited to one per post) via radion buttons in the quick edit view\" src=\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/th23x/th23-specials/refs/heads/main/assets/screenshot-2.jpg?v=6.0.3\" width=\"400\"\u003e\n\u003e \u003cimg alt=\"\" title=\"Enforced \"read more\" block in the Gutenberg / block editor\" src=\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/th23x/th23-specials/refs/heads/main/assets/screenshot-3.jpg?v=6.0.3\" width=\"400\"\u003e\n\n\n## ⚙️ Setup\n\nFor a manual installation upload extracted `th23-specials` folder to your `wp-content/plugins` directory.\n\nThe plugin is **configured via its settings page in the admin area**. Find all options under `Settings` -\u003e `th23 Specials`. The options come with a description of the setting and its behavior directly next to the respective settings field.\n\n\n## 🖐️ Usage\n\nSimply install plugin and choose customizations required from the plugin settings page. Few options involve further actions to achieve required result - **see below and FAQ section** for more details.\n\nFor **highlighting in post / page titles**, put part to highlight in between `*matching stars*` in the editor. This part will be enclosed by `\u003cspan\u003e\u003c/span\u003e` tags in the HTML on the frontend, allowing styling by theme via the CSS selector `.entry-title span`.\n\n\u003e [!NOTE]\n\u003e Some options change important core functionality of Wordpress - make sure you **properly test your website** before usage in production environment!\n\n\n## ❓ FAQ\n\n### Q: Is there a way to identify **existing posts / pages that do not comply** with the one category only requirement or that are missing the \"read more\" block / tag? ###\n\nA: Yes, there are links in the descriptions on the th23 Specials settings page, **next to the respective option** to search for \"non-compliant\" posts / pages.\n\nUpon a click on this link you will see all currently non-compliant posts / pages. You can modify these by clicking on their titles, which loads them into your default editor.\n\n### Q: Some **settings seem to have no effect** - eg oEmbed features are still active depsite deactivated? ###\n\nA: This might be happening as **some options can be \"overruled\"** by settings by your theme. For settings that might be affected, please see the description on the settings page.\n\nTo change such settings, please **check your active theme** and adjust them there, if required.\n\n\n## 🤝 Contributors\n\nFeel free to [raise issues](https://github.com/th23x/th23-specials/issues) or [contribute code](https://github.com/th23x/th23-specials/pulls) for improvements via GitHub.\n\n\n## ©️ License\n\nYou are free to use this code in your projects as per the `GNU General Public License v3.0`. 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