diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py
index 39170c69b5..3c49cc9423 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py
@@ -465,6 +465,12 @@ OptionRecommendation(name='list_recipes',
 
         # Remove the options that have been disabled by recommendations from the
         # plugins.
+        for w in ('input_options', 'output_options',
+                'all_format_options'):
+            temp = set([])
+            for x in getattr(self, w):
+                temp.add(x.clone())
+            setattr(self, w, temp)
         self.merge_plugin_recommendations()
 
     @classmethod
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/mobiml.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/mobiml.py
index 9a3cabae61..b2e91981bb 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/mobiml.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/mobiml.py
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ class FormatState(object):
         self.bold = False
         self.preserve = False
         self.family = 'serif'
+        self.bgcolor = 'transparent'
         self.href = None
         self.list_num = 0
         self.attrib = {}
@@ -71,7 +72,8 @@ class FormatState(object):
                and self.href == other.href \
                and self.valign == other.valign \
                and self.preserve == other.preserve \
-               and self.family == other.family
+               and self.family == other.family \
+               and self.bgcolor == other.bgcolor
 
     def __ne__(self, other):
         return not self.__eq__(other)
@@ -232,6 +234,9 @@ class MobiMLizer(object):
                 inline = etree.SubElement(inline, XHTML('i'))
             if istate.bold:
                 inline = etree.SubElement(inline, XHTML('b'))
+            if istate.bgcolor is not None and istate.bgcolor != 'transparent' :
+                inline = etree.SubElement(inline, XHTML('span'),
+                        bgcolor=istate.bgcolor)
             bstate.inline = inline
         bstate.istate = istate
         inline = bstate.inline
@@ -308,6 +313,7 @@ class MobiMLizer(object):
         weight = style['font-weight']
         istate.bold = weight in ('bold', 'bolder') or asfloat(weight) > 400
         istate.preserve = (style['white-space'] in ('pre', 'pre-wrap'))
+        istate.bgcolor  = style['background-color']
         if 'monospace' in style['font-family']:
             istate.family = 'monospace'
         elif 'sans-serif' in style['font-family']:
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_wash_post.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_wash_post.py
index 2140217a03..44e8458ec6 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_wash_post.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_wash_post.py
@@ -6,16 +6,21 @@ class WashingtonPost(BasicNewsRecipe):
 
     title = 'Washington Post'
     description = 'US political news'
-    __author__ = 'Kovid Goyal'
+    __author__ = 'Kovid Goyal and Sujata Raman'
     use_embedded_content   = False
     max_articles_per_feed = 20
     language = _('English')
 
-
     remove_javascript = True
+    no_stylesheets = True
 
+    extra_css       = '''
+                        #articleCopyright { font-family:Arial,helvetica,sans-serif ; font-weight:bold ; font-size:x-small ;}
+                        p { font-family:"Times New Roman",times,serif ; font-weight:normal ; font-size:small ;}
+                        body{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif}
+                            '''
 
-    feeds = [ ('Today\'s Highlights', 'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032400102.xml'),
+    feeds = [    ('Today\'s Highlights', 'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032400102.xml'),
      	         ('Politics', 'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/rss/politics/index.xml'),
      	         ('Nation', 'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/rss/nation/index.xml'),
      	         ('World', 'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/rss/world/index.xml'),
@@ -30,7 +35,7 @@ class WashingtonPost(BasicNewsRecipe):
 
 
     def get_article_url(self, article):
-        return article.get('pheedo_origlink', article.get('link', None))
+        return article.get('guid', article.get('link', None))
 
     def print_version(self, url):
         return url.rpartition('.')[0] + '_pf.html'