Johnathon Williams

Lineate provides two simple shortcodes for easily formatting poetry in the WordPress editor.
The first is the stanza shortcode. To indicate a stanza, wrap the appropriate text the [stanza]…[/stanza] shortcode as follows:
[stanza] 
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan 
A stately pleasure-dome decree : 
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran 
Through caverns measureless to man 
Down to a sunless sea. 
[/stanza]
The amount of vertical distance between stanzas can be set on the Lineate settings page.
The second shortcode is for indicating individual lines within a stanza. To ensure that each line in the above example was rendered correctly, you would use the [lineate] shortcode as follows:
[stanza] 
[lineate]In Xanadu did Kubla Khan[/lineate] 
[lineate]A stately pleasure-dome decree :[/lineate] 
[lineate]Where Alph, the sacred river, ran[/lineate] 
[lineate]Through caverns measureless to man[/lineate] 
[lineate]Down to a sunless sea.[/lineate] 
[/stanza]
A new button is included in the visual editor for automatically wrapping individual lines in the lineate shortcode. To use the button, hightlight a single line, and click the button with the line break symbol (a red slash).
The lineate shortcode also supports indented or “dropped” lines, with three levels of indentation.
The horizontal width of each indent is set through the base indent value on the Lineate settings page. The default value is 30 pixels.
To indicate dropped lines, include the indent attribute as follows:
[stanza] 
[lineate]In Xanadu did Kubla Khan[/lineate] 
[lineate indent=1]A stately pleasure-dome decree :[/lineate] 
[lineate indent=2]Where Alph, the sacred river, ran[/lineate] 
[lineate indent=3]Through caverns measureless to man[/lineate] 
[/stanza]
In this example, assuming the base indent was set at 20 pixels, the second line in the stanza would be 20 pixels from the left margin, the third line would be 40 pixels from the left margin, and the fourth line would be 60 pixels from the left margin.

Lineate

Lineate provides simple shortcodes for formatting poetry in the WordPress editor.

The WordPress Cabaret is a creator of random poetry. I named this plugin after the “Cabaret Voltaire”, 
the nightclub founded by Dadaists in Zurich in 1916. Like futurism, Dada was probably one of the few forms of Art of the past century that could have performed even better using computers, since those artists loved so much random stuff, graphics, fonts and technology in general. This plugin is incomplete for now, and it can’t do a lot to entertain you. For now it creates random poetry, and clouds out of your posts and comments and spam. 
By no means I have finished developing it: in the work it has visual experiences (!) too. 
But since I am not going to have much time to work on it for the next few months or so, I decided to release this reduced version of it.

The WordPress Cabaret

The Wordpress Cabaret is a creator of random poetry.

Lineate vs The WordPress Cabaret