Add HTML to Page Content

Indeed! It’s a filter called ‘the_content’, to which numerous other functions are hooked such as the one that turns WordPress into WordPress, oembeds, and the p tag wrapping echo apply_filter(‘the_content’,$data->the_content);

Multiple item layout with one query

As @MridulAggarwal already stated, it’s a pretty basic PHP task that you’re confronted with: $wpse69584_posts = get_posts( array( /* Your Arguments */ ) ); echo $post[0][‘post_title’]; echo isset( $post[0]->post_excerpt ) ? apply_filters( ‘the_excerpt’, $post[0]->post_excerpt ) : apply_filters( ‘the_content’, $post[0]->post_content ) ; // etc. Or if you’re using a loop, it’s even easier: global $wpdb; if … Read more

Custom formatting

That is one way to do it, and I have done that for certain technically challenges clients. It is quick and simple. It does add a query to the parent page, but that isn’t catastrophic. It would work fine if you have a few of these pages and aren’t adding or editing them a lot. … Read more

WordPress options text format

WordPress does not automatically texturize options. If you are using add_option(), update_option(), and/or get_option() then it should “just work”. Example: //Add an option to the database update_option(‘my_test_option’,’This is an option. Isn\’t it “special”?’); //Returns string: This is an option. Isn’t it “special”? echo get_option(‘my_test_option’);