Tag Archives: wordpress

Making Wordpress Obey Me

Wordpress has this filter that enforces camelcase capitalization of the word “Wordpress”. I disagree with this decision for two reasons: I prefer to have control over my software. Whether control is wrestled from me through legal means or by design, I don’t like it. I don’t think it’s a fully settled manner whether to use [...]

SyntaxHighlighter Brush Pack: Now on WordPress.org

I put my SyntaxHighlighter Brush Pack on WordPress.org, using the excellent git to WordPress.org Subversion instructions to preserve history. In order to check that it works, I moved my plugin (installed as a git submodule) outside the wp-content/plugins directory, went to Add Plugin, searched for it, and instructed WordPress to automatically install it. It works! [...]

Early WordPress Plugin Preview: Resource Infobox

I’m working on a plugin for displaying infoboxes for URLs called Resource Infobox. The interface is a shortcode with a single url property. To include an infobox, use an expression like the following: Repositorywordpress-resource-infoboxOwnerbenatkin This will show an Infobox with some basic information: Examples of Infoboxes include those on Wikipedia, in the upper-right corner of [...]