Comments on: AutoLinker (by request) for WordPress

By: Jaykul

Jaykul — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:35:22 +0000

I’ve finally gotten around to adding a “download” link to my source script. All of my plugins should be simple and easy to download now, just click through to the source and hit the download link.

Hopefully that will solve all the download problems people have had.

By: Help Desk Software

Help Desk Software — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:48:40 +0000

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By: Drab as a fool, aloof as a bard » Minor alterations

Drab as a fool, aloof as a bard » Minor alterations — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 22:48:44 +0000

[...] All this blogging work has given me an idea of what would be useful features in blogging software. Fortunately, no sooner had I thought of the features I wanted, I had found them. Basically I wanted a quick way to mark up common abbreviations and links. The following two WordPress plugins do the trick: acronym plugin and autolinker plugin. [...]

By: Jaykul

Jaykul — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 02:41:59 +0000

Lee: can you show me an example?

I can certainly implement a few more restrictions …

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:10:43 +0000

Aaaah! I keep hitting problems. For some reason, about 3 out of 75 links “double wrap” (surrounded by two lots of tags). This screws up page validation. I’ve tried resolving it a trillion different ways, but to no avail. I always F*** up something else.

Gotta reluctantly abandon it now. I just wish there was an alternative “autolinker” somewhere. I desperately need one.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:12:24 +0000

Oh er, the acronym plugin provided a very useful code hint. I placed this before the loop closing brace in your code:

$text = preg_replace(”|\[$match\]|imsU” , “$match” , $text);

That unwraps the anchor element from matched text in brackets ([]).

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:00:32 +0000

Superb plugin, but I do wish you could “opt out” keywords by wrapping them in dollar signs — which I believe is possible with the acronym plugin. “Opting in” (using the square brackets) is a much more involved process requiring the user to make decisions in every single post. It’s very rare that I want to opt-out for example, but when I do, boy I do!

By: Purple Goddess in Frog Pyjamas » Blog Archive » I so love my friends in the computer

Mon, 18 Jul 2005 06:52:12 +0000

[...] It works!!! Thanks to my friend in the computer, Carrie, for whatever voodoo she worked on Autolinker to make it work! I bow to her WP genius. [...]

By: kapeka

kapeka — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:04:42 +0000

Hi,
fine little plugin. But is there either a way to tell him, that he has only to link “standalone” words, that means no words with brackets or inside a longer word for example: the-google-mod. I am using textile and if there is for example a link with google somewhere in the URL he breaks the link because he makes a link of the word google. Is this easy to implement so that I could do this by my own? I saw the code but this is black magic for me. I see only brackets and signs but I dont understand whats is what there.
Or is it possible to extend the plugin so that when I write posts in the admin area he shows me what links I have put in the autolinkers php. If this would be possible, the I could easily use the safer version with brackets. With a long list it is hard to remember what I have put it and what not.

By: Anders Kjellberg

Anders Kjellberg — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 22:01:34 +0000

Great little plugin and just what I was looking for! I run it under WP 1.5 and it works just as advertised. I have one question though: what should I modify in autolinker.php so that the links always open in a new window? I’m sure there is an easy solution but I know absolutely nothing about php.

/Anders

PS. my site