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 WordPress Codebird
 ======================
 
-*Contributors: @automattic, @batmoo, @danielbachuber, @nickdaugherty*
-*Tested up to: 3.5.1*
-*Stable tag: 1.0.1*
-*License: GPLv2 or later*
-*License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html*
+* _Contributors: @automattic, @batmoo, @danielbachuber, @nickdaugherty_
+* _Tested up to: 3.5.1_
+* _Stable tag: 1.0.1_
+* _License: GPLv2 or later_
+* _License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html_
 
 Description
 -----------------------
 
-An extension of the Codebird class to use WordPress' HTTP API instead of cURL.
+An extension of the [Codebird](https://github.com/mynetx/codebird-php) class to use WordPress' HTTP API instead of cURL.
 
-Provides a drop in replacement for Codebird (mynetx/codebird-php) with improved WordPress integration by replacing all cURL calls with WordPress HTTP API calls.
+Provides a drop in replacement for Codebird with improved WordPress integration by replacing all cURL calls with WordPress HTTP API calls.
 
 Usage
 --------------------
 
 Include both the Codebird library and `class-wp-codebird.php`, then get a new instance of `WP_Codebird`:
 
-    $wp_codebird = WP_Codebird::getInstance();
+```php
+$wp_codebird = WP_Codebird::getInstance();
+```
 
 The rest of the api is identical to Codebird - it is a drop in replacement that does not require any modification to existing code.
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