WordPress Plugin – Acronym Replacer
Acronym Replacer 2.0 wraps common acronyms with the acronym tag and a description. It’s pretty simple, just edit the list of acronyms to add your own, and put it in your plugins directory.
For example:
AOL => America Online,
API => Application Programming Interface,
CD => Compact Disk,
and when you later use “AOL” it will become: <acronym title="America Online">AOL</acronym> (as you can clearly see [ 
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Note: This is a plugin for WordPress 1.2 and up. Get it here
Edit: May 12, 2004
Version 2.4 is now more aggressive at replacing acronyms. However, it no longer replaces acronyms inside of HTML tags, so it should be safe to create links with defined acronyms in the link or it’s title, without breaking anything, like this: The W3C Standards Organization.
As an additional feature, there is a line in the plugin (near the bottom) which, if uncommented, will allow you to stop acronyms from being replaced by surrounding them with dollar signs ($) which will be removed in processing. I’ve disabled that option myself, since it sems like extra work to me, but if you uncomment it, something like this: “$AOL$” would end up as just plain “AOL” but without the acronym tags.
Edit: June 30, 2004
I just released another version which optimizes things by not re-defining the list each time the plugin is invoked. This should save you a ton of lines of code as you define more acronyms. The new version also includes another fix: to allow acronyms to work on the first word.
Edit: May 5, 2006
Happy cinco de Mayo. I’ve released ubernyms now, so if you’re looking for the best acronym replacer around, that’s the one you want, not this one.
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I’m not sure about the error, because I don’t know how you edited the file… but to make the acronyms case sensitive, all you have to do is remove the “i” from the regular expression (that is: replace |imsU with |msU).
WP – Abbreviation Replacer (Plugin)
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Hello! I come from Taiwan,and just downloaded this plug-in.
It’s convienient to make me use some abbrev without explain what it is.
But I have a problem now,that this plug-in seem not to work on Chinese(Big5).
For Example,
“(Chinese)”=>“12345”,
“FF”=>”(Chinese)”,
the latter works,but former doesn’t.
I guess it’s because the plug-in can’t catch Chinese characters correctly,which consists of two bytes.
Can you help me fix this problem?
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You mentioned your “view source” plugin in one of the comments on this post. I downloaded it from your site and tried it on my own, but I’m having big problems. It gives me errors of undefined variables (DOCUMENT_ROOT, PHP_SELF, and file). The first two can be fixed by changing “dirname($DOCUMENT_ROOT.$PHP_SELF)” to “$_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’]” and “$PHP_SELF” to “$_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]”. I’m assuming that’s an issue with the PHP version. But what about the “file” variable? Any ideas?
Yeah! Actually, it’s not just the version, it’s the register_globals being off. For some reason, I had mine on… hopefully i haven’t broken anything by turning it off.
Anyway,
$fileis the parameter that you need to pass to the script, like to view the source.php script, you need a link to source.php?file=source.php or else you should just get the “sorry, that file doesn’t exist” error.Anyway, I think I fixed my copy of View Source, so you can use that link I just posted to view it, and even download it.
Cool. The new version got past the previous PHP errors, but I’m still getting an error that says “Undefined variable: file in … on line 53”. I hate to be the idiot who doesn’t know how to use PHP, but how do I get PHP (or maybe Apache) to know that $file is the parameter that’s passed in the URL? As in “source.php?file=$file”.
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As a follow-up to my previous comment, I think I answered my own question. The way to get PHP to recognize a variable passed as a parameter in the URL is with the GET function. $file = $_GET[“file”].
Thanks for it …was looking for a similar plugin !
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