The purpose of ubernyms is to allow you configure a set of frequently used abbreviations that will be automatically encoded nicely whenever you use them. The goal is to make them visible in a way that is literate for both humans and computers. In other words: we tag them appropriately for your computer, and expand them as necessary for humans.
The main use for ubernyms is still going to be abbreviations, including acronyms. But you can also use it for other things like:
I’ve included a full configuration panel this time. No more hacking the plugin source to add abbreviations! Each time you go to the configuration panel there’s 5 empty slots for new definitions, and when you submit those, you get space for 5 more. You can remove definitions by simply deleting their Text or Definition. You can see a partial screenshot of the ubernyms configuration if you’re interested, but there’s not much to see besides long lists of definitions.
There’s a setting for each ubernym that lets you define if it is an acronym, an initialism, just a plain old abbreviation, or simply a replacement or link. And if you’re using the DomTT tool-tips, you can specify additional text (including HTML) to be placed below the main definition.
You can download the zip here, which includes the DomTT script which you can also get here with more details about how to use it and the many features, in case you want to play with the tool-tips. The installation is pretty simple, just unzip, and upload the whole ubernyms folder into your plugins folder.
Note that there’s now an option in the plugin configuration for including the default ubernym CSS, but you can feel free to copy that into your CSS and/or edit it as you see fit.
Incidentally, putting the photos in (as I did with my daughters) is extremely simple a?? without getting into the details of how I actually do it, all you have to do is put the img tag into the Description field, and make sure that you’ve checked the option for using the DomTT tooltips. You can use pretty much any HTML in the descriptions for DomTT, within reason
. Of course, the images have to be somewhere. You can just upload them to your webhost and link to them there, or just specify an image you already uploaded to flickr. Remember, just put the HTML in, like: <img src="http://static.flickr.com/48/136555658_f0eaa892a9_m.jpg" alt="Sitting in a field of flowers" />
I’ve just released an update of this, no major changes, but it’s now in sync with my HuddledParser plugin so that if you’re using them both, you don’t accidentally get two copies of the DomTT scripts loaded. Aren’t I clever?
I finally fixed a few annoying bugs related to having quotes, single-quotes, and apostrophes in your abbreviations and released ubernym 2.4
I tweaked the javascript and css so that it all validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Strict, or even XHTML 1.1, but the DomTT javascript still uses a CSS file with those neat rounded-corners and alpha-blending opacity, so it’s CSS won’t validate … which doesn’t really bother me.
Here’s a list of things that I still want to do:
Thank ya much, Joel! It looks stunning…
..but I can’t get it to work. I’m running the latest wordpress and tried disabling all the other plugins (because there are many) but there was no conflict. I always get the same error message on top of each post:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/www/web9/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/ubernyms/ubernyms.php on line 366
i don’t dare fiddling with your code (further I dont know what I’m doing most of the time) so any help would be appreciated because it’s just the frickin’ best plugin on earth so far!
so thanks in advance!
regards
phil
Hey,
I was wondering if there was a possibility of implementing this into Blogger?
If there is, or there is a similar plug-in for Blogger please let me know via my email
mlevit@gmail.com
Thanks
Is there a way to change the colour of the abbreviations that show up on the blog? Right now it’s green but it would be nice to be able to change it to whatever colour we want.
I am using http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress for importing RSS feeds, and am trying to use ubernyms as well. It doesn’t seem to work when the feeds are imported. Does your plugin only work when the posts are entered manually? I tried editing the posts and that doesn’t seem to work either. I’m using the latest version of Wordpress.
Thank you.
david
Strangely enough, when I deactivate this plugin (feedwordpress) the ubernyms starts working. I don’t get it.
I’de like to know if this plugin can replace custom field text?
I’m trying to now and I get nothing, should this be working?
Well, hypothetically you can replace text anywhere, but you’d have to add the appropriate hook for the output (or input, I guess), because right now it only hooks the content, comment, and “sidebar content” ...
Hi,
I have been using Ubernyms as a key part of my site for about at least a year now. The one feature I would dearly like is to switch it off for all headings – etc.
Are you still planning to add filters? If not can you suggest some pointers as to where in your code I should look to add them?
Cheers
Owen
hi,
I have pb after copying pasting from
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/d/deep_link.htm
A hyperlink either on a Web page or in the results of a search engine query to a page on a Web site other than the site’s home page.
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /ubernyms/ubernyms.php on line 217
Has anyone tested Ubernyms with Wordpress 2.5 yet? Does it work?
Hi, Joel, a long time ago I posted that ubernyms doesn’t work for me… and I sorted out why. It conflicts entirely with the WP Lightbox 2 plugin. If I disable Lightbox, it works as it’s supposed to.
A shame, because I enjoy both plugins very much.
I’ve used it with 2.5 (just upgraded the other day), Michael, and it’s been working fine for me so far. Thank goodness, since I rely on it rather heavily.
Hello,
Thank you so much for this amazing plug-in. I am having an issue however, as mentioned up there before, in the Ubernyms config, it won’t allow me to save new/edited words.
I tried both adding new ones, and changing the other ones, but when I save it it does not actually change anything. I even checked the folders and it has the correct 755 read/writing/execute.
Is there something I am doing wrong?
I deactivated/removed/installed/activated the most current version with no change.
Thank you so very much!
Yes, use the “English” option to only replace the first instance of an acronym, in accordance with normal English writing rules
Hi, I want to use your plug-in for a website I am developing for dental students. Is it possible to include the acronym only once on a page ? since I have the same word repeated over and over in a page.
Thanks
Hi and thanks for your reply. I tried it and it didn't work.I set English option to True. Another issue I am having is that when I enable Ubernyms then Live-search Popup plug-in stops working. I don't know if it is Ubernym's fault or Lve-search Popup fault. I am contact both developers to see if there's solution. Maybe you can help ?
Thanks for your quick reply. Let me know how I can get only the first instance to showup.
http://baka.updates.com/lang/en/test/cbct-basics/...
The acronym is CBCT
I tried initial, abbreviation, acronym with English set to true but didn't work. I am using WP 2.6.3