Anthology of Ideas

Occasionally, so many wonderful posts appear in the lull between the Thursday doldrums and the Friday excitation (pun much?) that I have to “link it up…er…mott”. It turns out that you can see the effects of trawling for fish from space. Do we need any more evidence against it? 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.

Multi-plugin is a very simple script that allows you to add small bits of PHP scripts, such as WordPress filters, without having to make a plugin for them. 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(&#039;get_comment_author_link&#039;, &#039;aoi_follow&#039;); add_filter(&#039;comment_text&#039;, &#039;aoi_follow&#039;); function aoi_follow($link){ return preg_replace(&#039;/(<a.*?rel[^>]*)nofollow(.*?)/&#039;,&#039;${1}${2}&#039;,$link); } ?> You can also use the following to add the trailing slash back onto feeds, categories, pages, etc.

Here is another small modified plugin that auto-escapes your code, nicely displays line numbers and uses valid XHTML. This plugin is based off of SemCodeFix, and adds many of the features I wanted in my code plugin. 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.

This was an extremely quick project to turn spreadsheet data into an XHTML table. The plugin is quite simple to use, just copy some data from a spreadsheet ( or the visible part of an XHTML table) and paste it into a blog post between the tags [table] and [/table] (make sure that columns are tab separated and rows are on their own line). This is a no frills plugin. The first row is used as the column names and is added to a thead tag.

Inline Ajax Page has been updated. This release is primarily a bug-fixing release, but adds a live comment preview and the ability to trim feeds. 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.

The WordPress Access Keys Plugin a allows you to add access keys to pages and categories to improve accessibility of your WordPress website. This works with any page or category list that is called with wp_list pages and wp_list_categories respectively. This plugin works in all WordPRess versions from 2.1 – 2.5. 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.

Occasionally, so many wonderful posts appear in the lull between the Thursday doldrums and the Friday excitation (pun much?) that I have to “link it up…er…mott”. It turns out that you can see the effects of trawling for fish from space. Do we need any more evidence against it? 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.

Multi-plugin is a very simple script that allows you to add small bits of PHP scripts, such as WordPress filters, without having to make a plugin for them. 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(&#039;get_comment_author_link&#039;, &#039;aoi_follow&#039;); add_filter(&#039;comment_text&#039;, &#039;aoi_follow&#039;); function aoi_follow($link){ return preg_replace(&#039;/(<a.*?rel[^>]*)nofollow(.*?)/&#039;,&#039;${1}${2}&#039;,$link); } ?> You can also use the following to add the trailing slash back onto feeds, categories, pages, etc.

Here is another small modified plugin that auto-escapes your code, nicely displays line numbers and uses valid XHTML. This plugin is based off of SemCodeFix, and adds many of the features I wanted in my code plugin. 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.

This was an extremely quick project to turn spreadsheet data into an XHTML table. The plugin is quite simple to use, just copy some data from a spreadsheet ( or the visible part of an XHTML table) and paste it into a blog post between the tags [table] and [/table] (make sure that columns are tab separated and rows are on their own line). This is a no frills plugin. The first row is used as the column names and is added to a thead tag.

Inline Ajax Page has been updated. This release is primarily a bug-fixing release, but adds a live comment preview and the ability to trim feeds. 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.

The WordPress Access Keys Plugin a allows you to add access keys to pages and categories to improve accessibility of your WordPress website. This works with any page or category list that is called with wp_list pages and wp_list_categories respectively. This plugin works in all WordPRess versions from 2.1 – 2.5. 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.