1. It turns out that you can see the effects of trawling for fish from space. Do we need any more evidence against it?
2. Uncertain Principles posts about the backlash from the Virginia Tech shootings: turns out stage plays with fake wooden weapons endanger students…according to some college administrators.
3. Uncertain principles also wonders if there is any realistic nanotechnology in SciFi writing.
4. That encrypted hard drive you might have? Worthless now that the encryption can be broken…easily.

Oh and as a side note, anyone else watch one of my favorite video blogs: http://tv.winelibrary.com/?

image credit: Pulpolux !!!

Download Multi-plugin

Installation is as simple as renaming the file to .php, uploading it to your server, activating it, and adding some script to the textbox (for example, I use the following code to remove the nofollow attribute from comments.)

<?php
add_filter('get_comment_author_link', 'aoi_follow');
add_filter('comment_text', 'aoi_follow');
function aoi_follow($link){
   return preg_replace('/(<a.*?rel[^>]*)nofollow(.*?)/','${1}${2}',$link);
}

?>

You can also use the following to add the trailing slash back onto feeds, categories, pages, etc. in WordPress 2.2+.

<?php
add_filter('user_trailingslashit', 'aoi_slashit',10,2);
function aoi_slashit($string, $type=''){
  if($type == 'page' || $type == 'category'|| $type == 'month'|| $type == 'day'|| $type == 'paged'|| $type == 'feed'){
    return trailingslashit($string);
  }else{
   return $string;
  }
}
?>

Download:
WordPress Code Escape

Directions:
Download the file and save it as a .php file.
Upload to your plugins directory.
Activate it.
You may optionally choose to add the following style information to your theme’s style.css.

.code_child {
	font-family:"Courier New", Courier, monospace;
	white-space:pre;
	width:90%;
	background-color: #F4F4F4 !important;
	overflow:auto;
	border:1px inset;
 	margin:10px;
}
ol.code_child li{
 	margin:0;
 	padding:0 !important;
 	line-height:100% !important;
 	margin-bottom: -8px;
 	margin-bottom: expression(5 +"px");
 	margin-left:  expression(35 + "px");
}

So this:

[table "This is an example table"]
gf	sfg	sfcx	dfg
asd	sd	dsfs	
xcv	fds		sgdf
dfg		dfg	dfg
	dfg	dfg	dfg
[/table]

Becomes:

Installation:

1. Copy and Paste the contents of the texbox below into a .php file.
2. Upload and activate.

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Tabeler
Plugin URI:  http://anthologyoi.com/plugins/
Description: This plugin allows you to copy data directly from a spreadsheet and paste it into your blog, and will automatically create a table for it.
Version: 0.1
Author: Aaron Harun. 
Author URI: http://anthologyoi.com
*/

add_filter('the_content','tabler_find',1);
add_filter('the_excerpt','tabler_find',1);

function tabler_find($content) {
	return preg_replace_callback('!\[table([^]]*)\](?:\r\n|\n|\r|)([\S\s]*?\t[\S\s]*?)(?:\r\n|\n|\r|)\[/table\]!ims', 'tabler_callback', $content);
}


function tabler_callback($matches) {

	$pos_table = $matches[2];

	if(strpos($pos_table,chr(13)) !== FALSE){
		$rows = explode(chr(13),$pos_table);
	}else{
		$rows = explode("\n",$pos_table);
	}

	if(is_array($rows)){
		if($rows > 1){
			$table .= '<table>';

		foreach($rows as $row){
		$i++;
			$cols = explode("\t",$row);

			if($i==1)
				$table .= '<thead>';

			$table .= '<tr>';

			foreach($cols as $col){
				$table .= '<td>'.$col.'</td>';
			}

			$table .= '</tr>';

			if($i==1){
				$table .= '</thead>';

				$table .= '<tbody>';
			}
		}
			$table .= '</tbody>';

			$table .= '</table>';
			
			return $table;
		}
	}
}

?>

You may go to the main INAP page for more information.

Special thanks goes out to Truden for all of his help hunting down them wascily wabbits…er…bugs.

Pun intended.

Screenshot of Admin Panel:

Demo:
The About page on this site has an access key of 6 and the site map has an access key of 3.

Download:
Access Keys version 1.0

Installation:

1. Download the zip file, unzip it and upload to your wp-content/plugins folder
2. Upload to your plugin directory.
3. Activate.
4. Go to the Admin Menu under Manage named Access Keys.
5. Read the instructions.

Use:
Use of this plugin is simple. On the Admin panel it lists pages and categories with a current access key, and in a separate list it lists the pages and categories without access keys. Just add an access key just type an access key in a text box and then click the save button. The categories or posts will now move to the top list.

How do I use Access Keys
Different browsers implement Access Key shortcuts differently. The following is a list of browser access key key combinations.

• On Windows and Linux. Firefox 2.0+: Hold down the Alt Key and the Shift key, and press the access key.
• On Windows. Internet Explorer 5+: Hold down the Alt key, and press the number or letter of the access key. Release both keys and press Enter.
• On Windows. Internet Explorer 4, Firefox 1.0, Mozilla and Netscape 7+: Hold down the Alt key and press the number or letter of the access key.
• On Mac OS X. Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape 7+, Internet Explorer 5+, Safari and Omniweb: Hold down the Ctrl key and press the number or letter of the access key.
• Konqueror: Press and release the Ctrl key, then press the number or letter of the access key.
• On the Mac Internet Explorer 4.5 and on all platforms Netscape version 6 and earlier: Access keys are unsupported.

Well this plugin gets rid of all of that. It adds a simple month-by-month calendar that shows all the months you have future posts for (and the current month no matter what), it highlights the days you have posts for, and as an added bonus if you click a day the Post Timestamp boxes change to that day, month and year (although it doesn’t check the edit timestamp box to avoid accidental changes).

The plugin also adds a sidebar widget that you can use to display your posts to others.

1. Download the zip file
2. Unzip and upload future_posts.php to your wp-content/plugins/ folder.
3. The new box will automatically appear on edit/write post pages.
   If you want to change a date to one shown just click the date and then click the “Edit timestamp” box.
4. Optionally you can add it as a sidebar widget or uncomment the line “//add_action(‘activity_box_end’, ‘get_future_calendar_html’);” to have it appear on your dashboard, or use the Dashboard Editor plugin to add it as a widget.

Download:Future Posts Calendar Plugin — Works in WordPress Version 2.1+ only

On a side note you may also be interested in my: Sneak Peeks Widget

The Super Category plugin allows you to have multiple websites running off of one install and one database (one set of tables). The websites can share content if you wish it, and can have different titles, descriptions and themes. This plugin is a true plugin: there are NO HACKS and NO THEME EDITS of any kind. The plugin works with any other plugins and themes that use WordPress’ built in APIs, and features modular functions that can even make other plugins that use custom queries work also.

If you find a problem with the plugin please let me know what happened using as much detail as possible. Unfortunately, I cannot currently ensure every plugin works with this plugin, so please let me know which ones don’t work. I will try to have a fix within a few weeks.

Download Super Category (multi-blog) plugin – V 0.8

Known Issues
Unfortunately wp_list_archives does not work with the plugin because WordPress does not allow us to filter months with posts from other Super Categories, so you will get a lot of empty archives. However, if you have posts in the same months on all sites then this doesn’t effect you.

There are likely to be other issues, so please activate this first on a test site. While I have made it easy to activate and deactivate, there may be complications. If you deactivate it, you will manually have to delete the super category (this will not delete child categories), and all settings should go back to the defaults.

Installation:

• Read section entitled “Parking Domains” — if you know what a parked domain is AND can park them, you can skip this part.
• Download Plugin
• Read all instructions–I’m a good writer, so it won’t be too much of a chore.
• Upload super_cat.php to wp-content/plugins/
• Activate Plugin
• Follow instructions that you previously read.
• Bask in the glory of the easiest, best, most advanced and most convenient multiblog in the history of WordPress.
• Send a donation with a number greater than 0 (preferably followed by lots of zeros to the right of the decimal place to me) or rabid monkeys will eat your slippers.

I Assume That…

• You have access to virtual sub-domains or parked domains, or know how to forward all requests to a single file.
• You have at least a mid-level working knowledge of how wordpress displays information.
• You are using a clean install, or that any pre-existing categories and links you want part of one site. If this is not true it is not difficult to change it later.
• You want all the same options and activated plugins on all sites. Currently you can have separate blog titles, descriptions, themes, posts, categories, pages, links, and feeds. Everything but basically.
• You want any pre-existing pages on your blog to be available to all blogs. Again if this is not true it is easy to change.
• You use themes that use fairly normal methods to display categories, links, posts, etc. Themes that don’t use the api’s provided and actually touch the database won’t allow the filters to filter. These themes may need to be edited.
• The same goes for plugins.
• You will read all of the instructions–yah right.

How To Use It.

• The Super Category that you will be using is your site URL. This includes the subdomain and the top-level domain. So for example, http://www.mail.google.com would have a Super Category of ‘mail.google.com’, http://anthologyoi.com would have a Super Category of anthologyoi.com
• The basic idea of this plugin is that anything that can be designated for a single site is added to a Super Category. Super Categories are designated for categories and pages. You may then add other pages and categories to those Super Categories by making them children.
• Parent categories and pages will function as normal except for when they are Super Categories.
• Links and Posts can be added to the categories as normal.
• To have pages visible on all sites do not add them to a Super Category. To have links and posts on multiple sites just select categories with different Super Categories.
• You can have as many sites and super categories, and no matter how you add posts or pages your readers will never know there are multiple sites.
• Posts and links SHOULD NEVER be added directly to Super Categories
• The Super Category management page you can change the blog title, description or theme for each Super Category. You can also add them.

Integration
I have tried to make it easy to expand Super Categories to work with other plugins and options allowing people to fit this plugin to their needs. While I could have left it up to the plugin developers to “fix” their plugins, I thought the best way to implement this is to make integration so easy that developers and users alike had little reason not to. However, this section is still in the works, so it may not work all the time.

Assuming the plugin only needs to use a basic filter structure. You can use the sprcat_option_filters(‘optionname’) function to automatically create a basic filter and filter function (direct replacement of the default database value with one from the Super Category).

The filter sprcat_get_options should be used to add menu items to the Super Category edit page. The filter passes the current mode (either add or edit), the current option value array and the correct super category name that the option will be used for; all of the passed values are required as add and edit modes require different naming conventions, the set option values are important, and the super category name is required to process the option..
Ensure that you return the options as a two column row
ADD ROW: <tr><td>Option Description</td><td><input type="text" value="" name="sprcat_new[option_name]"/></td></tr>
EDIT ROW:

<tr><td>Option Description</td><td><input type="text" value="$sprcat[option_name]" name="sprcat[$spr_cat][option_name]"/></td>
</tr>

Parking Domains
This is not a How-To guide for parking domains; instead it is meant to be just a brief introduction and explanation of what you will need to be able to do to use this plugin. Without parked domains this plugin is almost worthless (although there are some useful traits) so make sure you can use them before you install the plugin.

First of all to park a domain you need a minimum of two domains. A parked domain is a domain that points to the EXACT same place as another domain without using frames or redirections. It is not an add-on domain which points to a sub-folder. You may not be able to park domains depending on your hosting company; if you can’t you must either switch companies or convince your companies to allow you to park domains. Occasionally, a hosting company may refer to parked domains as aliased domains or one of several other names. If the domain name can point to the same folder as another domain name it will work no matter what the name is.

Secondly, you must make sure that the parked domains are registered with valid name servers and have propagated through the DNS before adding them to this plugin. While there will be no obvious errors if you try to do it before hand, none of the options will work until the domain is fully propagated.

Installation is simple. Click the link below to show the download link for the plugin, and then upload as normal.

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