WordPress Plugin - Acronym Replacer

19 Apr

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 [])

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.

By Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett
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elfin June 8th, 2004 at 5:38 pm 3

There is a bug in the script, or at least i think there is.

I am still developing my Wordpress, and it isn’t live yet but am currently testing offline.

It appears that all instances of an abbr/acronym are being replaced even when they are within the ‘title’ attribute of a link.
Is this a bug?
Joel "Jaykul" Bennett June 8th, 2004 at 11:25 pm 4

Hmm. You’re right elfin. Honestly, I don’t think it’s that big of a deal (I usually avoid acronyms in html attributes anyway).

However, I can see how it could be a problem, so I’ll try to see if I can tweak the regular expression to make it avoid those. It’s kind-of tricky, honestly, because it involves checking a LOT of extra text to be able to tell for SURE if we were in an attribute or not … which means the plugin will be a bit slower …
elfin June 9th, 2004 at 3:39 am 5

agreed, but maybe add a comment at the top of the script to warn people.
I also had fun creating css buttons…
Would a character infront of any that you don’t want to be processed be any use? Or would this still slow the script down?
sastian June 9th, 2004 at 4:06 pm 6

the moment i activate this plugin, my page beaks with the following error…

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ‘)’ in /home/sastian/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/acronym.php on line 36
David June 11th, 2004 at 12:31 pm 7

There is a problem with acronym, when the word is between parentesis i.e., (AOL) or between —, like —AOL—, perhaps even “AOL” (haven’t tested that one) it will not work.
Joel "Jaykul" Bennett June 12th, 2004 at 12:34 am 8

Sastian: Not sure what to say about that. Line 36 is supposed to be the first element in the array, so the only thing that occurs to me is the possibility that you edited it to add an item, and forgot the comma.

David: That’s a good point … the regex was a fairly conservative one, I have rewritten it to be less-so. The reason for it being conservative is that I had real problems with acronym tags showing up on the extensions and protocols in URL’s [] so I added those two cases as exceptions in the new regex.

NOTE: I’ve left a couple of other versions of the regex in there, including one which is the same as the new one, but case sensitive!

elfin: I’ve also added an extra replacement call, which allows you to undo the acronym if it was surrounded by dollar signs (of course it removes the dollar signs). Here’s an example: $AOL$ won’t be wrapped in acronym tags, replaced, but $AOL will be, and so will AOL$ ) Of course, you can change the character, but watch out for that, I can imagine it causing problems []
elfin June 12th, 2004 at 4:40 pm 9

XHTML is not parsed and this $XHTML$ doesn’t work.
yes I am using version 2.4 with the relevant lines uncommentated.

so a little further testing revelaed the following strange result:
ok that didna??t work, how about an AOL XHTML CSS ?

$XHTML$ CSS $CSS$

CSS

(if these don’t show properly here check my website)
elfin June 12th, 2004 at 4:52 pm 10

apolgies, things weren’t working correctly, then they were..in part.

enclosing with $ don’t appear to affect things, have I missed something ? and yes I doubled checked that the line was uncommented.
Joel "Jaykul" Bennett June 13th, 2004 at 6:03 pm 11

Well elfin: you certainly have a knack for testing.
The parentheses in the deffinition of an acronym cause problems with the regular expression that removes them. I’ve removed them from the deffinitions I listed by default, and added a note to that effect at the top.
elfin June 14th, 2004 at 1:35 pm 12

Looks like it is fixed now!

thanks for the time and effort
Johan Svedberg June 15th, 2004 at 4:57 pm 13

Is this the plugin you are using to insert images instead of smiles? Like this one:
Glenn WIens June 22nd, 2004 at 4:42 pm 14

For some reason, all I get, using IE6 browser, when I hover over your example above (copied below) is a pointer with a question mark. Is there something wrong with my browser?

For example:

a??AOLa?? => a??America Onlinea?? ,
a??APIa?? => a??Application Programming Interfacea?? ,
a??CDa?? => a??Compact Diska?? ,
Joel "Jaykul" Bennett June 26th, 2004 at 10:07 pm 15

Well Glenn, I think if you hover longer … you’ll see the pop up tooltip … otherwise, your tooltips must be disabled, either in IE, or globally in windows…
waylman June 30th, 2004 at 8:46 pm 16

BTW, nice plugin, but I think I found another little bug. If an acronym is the very first thing in the post (or comment) it doesn’t work. (Yes I know BTW was not in the default list, but I did add it to mine, as I tend to use it alot.)
waylman June 30th, 2004 at 8:49 pm 17

HTML
Oh, I should add that simply adding a space before the first letter (as done here) solves the problem, but who’s gonna remember to do that?
Joel "Jaykul" Bennett June 30th, 2004 at 9:37 pm 18

[poof] Fixed.

I actually put in an optimization while I was at it, to avoid redefining the acronym list every time the plugin is invoked. Can’t believe I didn’t think of that before so it’s upped a version point.
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Bill Rawlinson July 21st, 2004 at 10:33 am 22

I just installed the acrynym plugin and notice an error that occurs in my wordpress admin (on the “links | manage links “) page.

I have No links defined

I get the following two errors:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/rawlinso/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/acronyms.php:149) in /home/rawlinso/public_html/blog/wp-admin/link-manager.php on line 563

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/rawlinso/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/acronyms.php:149) in /home/rawlinso/public_html/blog/wp-admin/link-manager.php on line 564

I quickly clicked through the rest of the WP admin screens and didn’t get the error to occur anywhere else. If I deactive the acronym plugin the errors go away.
Bill Rawlinson July 21st, 2004 at 10:43 am 23

sorry to double post – but those errors actually cause a small problem in that the rendering of the page when you add a link or delete a link is also messed up – those same two errors occur, but then no real content is drawn on the page. other than a link to the WP support forums. Maybe the ideal solution would to have this not even execute if your in the wp-admin pages?
Joel "Jaykul" Bennett July 21st, 2004 at 10:38 pm 24

Sounds like you have an extra line in the php file. I.e.: white space, at the top or bottom of the file, that doesn’t belong there, and is being processed as plain html, and thus, sending a character or more of output.
Bill Rawlinson July 22nd, 2004 at 7:41 am 25

yep, that was basically it. There were two spaces after the closing php tag. crazy. thanks
David J. Weller-Fahy August 4th, 2004 at 8:49 am 26

I’m using version 2.6, and noticed that it’s replacing lowercase acronyms in the href attribute of tags. Is this intentional? If so, how would I go about disabling that function?
David J. Weller-Fahy August 4th, 2004 at 8:51 am 27

Never mind, I just enabled case sensitivity. Teach me to post without reading the code.
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hugo August 15th, 2004 at 9:08 am 29

Hi, Great Plugin. I am seeing a behavior I was wondering if you could address.
Comment on my site
with this code in it.
<a href="http://MySQL.com" title="MySQL Homepage">MySQL</a>
It will show the acronym info for the MySQL and hide the title info in the href tag. I don’t know if this is the way you want it to behave or not.
Also, any way that I could easily add support for “.” characters, for including acronym info country domain names for example. I don’t know REGEX. Thanks.
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Joel "Jaykul" Bennett August 15th, 2004 at 1:19 pm 31
For starters, quite frankly “MySQL” isn’t an acronym. It’s syntactically incorrect to put that in your acronym list. In fact, technically, even “SQL” isn’t an acronym, because the dictionary says an acronym is when you form a WORD by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words… So, “SQL” is technically just an abbreviation. Of course, since the <abbr> tag doesn’t really work in IE, most people just use acronym instead, but anyway. I’m off topic.

If you make a link with NOTHING in it but an acronym, then yes, the acronym’s title is going to hide the link’s title, because it’s inner-most, and most browsers are smart enough to figure that it’s most important.
- Personally, I think the title attribute on links is practically always unnecessary: it should be clear from the context (and from the URL, which appears in my status-bar) what the link is for, so a title is just redundant information which your reader’s will most likely not see.
- Aside from my personal feelings about the link’s title tag, I’m also against the practice of one word links, in general, unless that one word is the name of a product, person or company. If that’s the case, then having the link’s title hidden by the acronyms title is almost certainly not a problem []
All of that to say that basically, that is the way I want it to behave []. See, for example, the link to the W3C in my article above: the W3C acronym title shows over “W3C” but not over the whole link…

As far as country codes in URL’s … yes, you can do that, just delete the “.” from the first regex on line 132,
preg_replace("|([^.

That will work, but it will have the side effect of also making most of your file extensions into acronyms as well (like somepage.html or some image.gif).

Lastly … I should probably figure out how to make the acronym plugin take effect when you write the article, instead of when it’s rendered, that would reduce the ammount of work drastically, without any major side-effects, I think.
hugo August 15th, 2004 at 1:50 pm 32

thanks joel. Indeed I am not using the plugin only for acronyms. Just thought I would stretch it out a little bit. Making it take effect during writing would be great. I found one of the situations that was originally my concern. The masking of the link title isn’t really a problem. The problem link would be to WinSCP at sourceforge title would be “WinSCP at Sourceforge” and text “WinSCP”. causes a problem on my setup. Goes in the title tag and puts an acronym tag inside. it’s on my site on the post you commented on. I’m kind of limited figuring out how to type it exactly here. thanks for your help!
Dave Winter August 20th, 2004 at 5:34 pm 33

Hi Joel, this looks like a great plugin! However, when I activated it (like I noticed someone else has had) I get the following error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/blah/public_html/wp-content/plugins/acronyms-plugin.php on line 33

I literally just copied it direct from your source file to my host. Didn’t change or modify anything

But as soon as I activate it, it brings that error up on my blog.
hugo August 22nd, 2004 at 11:04 am 34

Dave,
I think the error you are having is very common with the current downloading mechanism on the blogs today. You probably have a whitespace before the <?php or after the ?> at the beginning and end of the pho file. Check it and remove any whitespaces before or after. Great Plugins Joel!
hugo August 22nd, 2004 at 11:06 am 35

try that again. “whitespace before the \< ?php or after the ?\>“
Dave Winter August 22nd, 2004 at 2:08 pm 36

I checked that.

There’s no white space before the <?php

And there’s no white space after the ?>

I asked someone on #wordpress if they could send me their plugin – and it worked fine. So it has to be a problem with me copying it from the source page.

The other thing that occurred to me, is that maybe I wasn’t using Unix line breaks in BBEdit, but I checked and I was.

I’m also using the Unicode character encoding.

Still – neither of these things can be causing the problem. Can they?

Joel, can you please post the plugin compressed in a zip file or something so that I can test it?
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Dave Winter August 22nd, 2004 at 3:25 pm 38

Some guys on IRC helped me find the problem I was having, you can read about it here as it may come in handy for some others:

http://www.forbiddenbyte.co.uk/archives/2004/08/22/gremlins-of-safari/

However, the plugin is working fine, sort of – but I now get this error when either posting or deleting an entry:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/dave/public_html/wp-content/plugins/acronym.php:1) in /home/dave/public_html/wp-admin/post.php on line 474

Not to sure what is wrong with that
Joel "Jaykul" Bennett August 22nd, 2004 at 10:24 pm 39

That’s weird… when posting!? I honestly don’t know how it could interfere in the admin panel.

I’m working on a modification to the ‘view source’ file I’m using to let people download plugins easily.
teli September 1st, 2004 at 7:57 pm 40

I get the same error:
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/nailet/public_html/wp-content/plugins/text-replace.php:94) in /home/nailet/public_html/wp-admin/post.php on line 340

If I disable acronyms, my post page works just fine.

I also notice that my acronyms breaks my links when I use acronyms in the title. I copied the php code directly from the page here and pasted it into Dreamweaver and saved as acronyms.php. The acronyms work, but unfortunately, it causes the error in my post screen and template edit screen and it breaks in HTML title tags .

If there’s a fix out there, I would surely like to use it, but for now I have to keep it deactivated.
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James September 10th, 2004 at 6:00 pm 42

I’m getting the same error, infact I can’t even get in to the admin area because of it (on my offline site, win xp based).

Warning: Cannot add header information – headers already sent by (output started at w:\www\lostdays.info\wp-content\plugins\acronyms.php:150) in w:\www\lostdays.info\wp-admin\index.php on line 13
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Meitar September 14th, 2004 at 1:04 am 44

I love the plugin. But I have a question: in my posts, I’ve already been properly tagging acronyms with the acronym tag. That means my source code for a post looks like

One day it was raining, but using <acronym title="Hypertext PreProcessor">PHP</acronym> is great so I had a great day.

rather than just having the letters PHP right in the middle there. The problem is that now that I’ve installed the acronym plugin, all of those old posts that have acronyms in them with acronym tags around them are now double-tagged! In other words, WordPress is outputting

One day it was raining, but using <acronym title="Hypertext PreProcessor"><acronym title="Hypertext PreProcessor">PHP</acronym></acronym> is great so I had a great day.

which is a slight nuisance, though it doesn’t invalidate my page any and looks identical in visual browsers.

I’m not a PHP expert, but I feel comfortable enough hacking the plugin to fix this for my own site, but was wondering if there was an easier way, perhaps through a more sophisticated regex I could use? If there’s a one-two-button-your-shoe fix to this, I’d really appreciate being let in on the secret.

In either case, great plugin, and thanks for writing it.
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Joel "Jaykul" Bennett September 14th, 2004 at 10:07 pm 46

Well, yeah, should be possible… If you look in the code, you’ll see I cheat a little and use two regular expressions… The second regex is a ‘fix’ regex which removes acronym tags from within other tags. That is: the initial regex is too agressive so I fix it by checking for acronyms inside angle brackets. Anyway, you could fix your situation in a similar way with a third line:

$text = preg_replace(
"|&lt;acronym[^&gt;]*&gt;&lt;acronym title="$description"&gt;$acronym&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/acronym&gt;|imsU",
"&lt;acronym title="$description"&gt;$acronym&lt;/acronym&gt;" , $text);

That should do it [] , but I haven’t really tested it …
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xeophin September 23rd, 2004 at 7:55 am 50

Thanks for the Plugin, it works great – except for one thing: if it finds a string that’s listed in the plugin code in front of a German umlaut, it will wrap it into the <acronym>-Tags, even if it’s inside a word. Check out my blog, you’ll find plenty of examples over there. Maybe you know a quick fix for that, or can point me into the right direction to fix it.
Thanks …
Ranking blog September 30th, 2004 at 2:48 pm 51

Any idea if Scotts replacer plugin was based on yours?
Joel "Jaykul" Bennett October 1st, 2004 at 1:57 pm 52

Hrm, I seem to have lost all my comments in the proccess of upgrading. That’s odd!
Don Ehrler October 3rd, 2004 at 6:45 pm 53

There’s a bug in your plugin: http://wordpress.org/support/10/14053
Joel "Jaykul" Bennett October 4th, 2004 at 8:04 am 54

Well, I hadn’t thought of the case where you used the same acronym twice within an HTML tag (as in the case where you put “W3C” into the image’s ALT tag and TITLE tag). Anyway, the simplest solution is to tweak the second preg_replace statement, and put several copies of it in, so that it matches acronyms inside HTML code more than once. You can see that it works in the picture of my daughter I’ve inserted above.

I’ll try to come up with a better solution later today, but in the meantime I’ve marked the acronym plugin 2.7 and you can download it at the link above.
Joel "Jaykul" Bennett October 5th, 2004 at 11:28 pm 55

There. I’ve come up with a new regular expression which is so good, it doesn’t need a second one to go back and remove replacements from inside links. Of course, this means it’s sufficiently different that I’ve probably forgotten something. If you can find any examples that don’t work, please post them here in the comments so I can keep tweaking, and this page can become my litmus test.

Feel free to grab 2.8 from the link above.
Don Ehrler October 7th, 2004 at 10:27 am 56

Thanks a lot!

I have installed WP 1.3 on a test system this afternoon and your acronym plugin causes many error messages in connection with posting comments and blog entries. I know that WP 1.3 is in development but do you think you will find time to make your great plugin WP 1.3 compatible?
Joel "Jaykul" Bennett October 7th, 2004 at 5:57 pm 57

Well … don’t tell anyone, but I’m running nightlies (right now it’s from 2004-9-29, I think) ...

So, yes, and … wait, error messages?
SanDiegoChurch October 8th, 2004 at 12:32 pm 58

I’m trying to use this but its not working…I’d like to use this more as a provider of definitions. For example:

$acronym_acronym = array(
“missiology” => “missiology is the area of practical theology which studies the mission of the Church including evangelism, apologetics and work of the Christian in their cultural setting”,

Should this still work? It doesn’t seem to…am I doing something wrong?
uruloki's lair » And another thing… October 9th, 2004 at 2:24 pm 59

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uruloki October 9th, 2004 at 2:33 pm 60

Hi there, I love this plugin. However, I am having problems with it activated when I try to save posts/update templates:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/uruloki/public_html/wp-content/plugins/acronyms.php:158) in /home/uruloki/public_html/wp-admin/post.php on line 146

The line in post.php where it seizes up is different (between 340 and 146 usually). I am using WP 1.2 with Acronym Replacer 2.8, and was wondering if there was anything else I have to do to install the plugin (I simply used the plugin manager in the CMS).

Thanks for the plugin and the help!
Joel "Jaykul" Bennett October 10th, 2004 at 10:11 pm 61

This is usually a copy/paste error: the result of having extra space (usually a blank line or two) at the top (or bottom, in this case) of the plugin file, outside the php tags.
t0mmy October 14th, 2004 at 4:41 pm 62

hi there! you’ve made a nice plugin. i’ve enabled wordpress to show excerpts – if the exists. but the acronyms won’t be replaced in them, only in the single post view. how can i fix this?
t0mmy
Joel "Jaykul" Bennett October 25th, 2004 at 9:40 pm 63

IMHO, you shouldn’t put code in your excerpts, which is why the acronym plugin’s not enabled on them. If you want to enable it on the excerpt, you just add a line (right below all the other add_filter lines at the bottom):

add_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'acronyms', 18);
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Niss November 11th, 2004 at 11:10 pm 66

Hmm. I just added your plug-in to my new WP site and it doesn’t “acronymize” anything in the entry title — Check out my site to see what happens.
rjohnsen December 10th, 2004 at 10:01 am 67

I have pluged acornyme replacer 2.0 in to my wp 1.2.

After doing so, I get the following massage when I try to login.

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_LNUMBER in /customers/rjohnsen.dk/rjohnsen.dk/httpd.www/wp-content/plugins/acronyms.php on line 57

And yes I don’t know much about this, so please – spell it out for me.

Thanks – if you decide to di so …
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Morrissimo January 31st, 2005 at 4:03 pm 70

If you’re having login page issues (returning blank), a minor plugin issue could be the cause.

As an explanation, yet another FYI: I, too, somehow stumbled into the trailing spaces issue: a single whitespace had crept into the last line in wp-acronyms.php, just after the closing “?>” tag. Most interestingly, not only was the acronym feature not working, but it broke the WP login page: the base login page came up fine, but after entering my user/pass, I got back a completely blank page — and still wasn’t logged in.

I still don’t know how or exactly when this extra space crept in
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the silver lizard March 16th, 2005 at 7:29 pm 72

Fantastic plugin, I’ve just implemented it on my fledgling blog, and I know it will save me a lot of tedious typing – Thanks!

Oh, you probably already know this, I don’t see it mentioned anywhere, but it seems to work fine on WP v1.5.
Tahnee March 17th, 2005 at 9:45 am 73

Hi Joel, great plugin…I saw you were beta testing a more froo-froo laden version that would also let you specify a replacement text for the acronym – i.e., if you were to type :Mom: (I use the colons to distinguish between things I don’t want acronym…ized), it could return [insert replacement text here] as an acronym. Is there a way to hack your current plugin to do this, as you haven’t released the one you were talking about back in October to the masses yet? (Or would you be willing to let the new one out?)
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[...] 217;t just add, I wrote it too. I based it off a tutorial on writing plugins, mixed in an existing plugin, a viola! My own plugin. I called it Nymania. Wait, w [...]
the Rising Son » Abbreviations April 8th, 2005 at 1:54 pm 76

[...] ct time to create my first WP-plugin, or at least install an existing one. I went over to Michael Heilemann’s web site, and found the acronym plugin. I m [...]
Kevin April 16th, 2005 at 4:42 pm 77

Thanks alot this plugin, it worked great on my site.
carboxymoron.com » Blog Archive » plugins galore April 21st, 2005 at 10:36 pm 78

[...] se plugins: Weighted Categories, which powers the Technorati-like thing in my archives Acronym Replacer, which doesn’t replace acronyms but inserts acronym t [...]
Toto May 7th, 2005 at 6:50 am 79

International Acronyms

Hi to all.

I try to use this plugin in my language Bulgarian.
But the problem is if I put Acronym (for exaple PEPE) in cyrilic nothing happend. In English works good

Some Help?
[MoK] leonieke.net » Blog Archive » More on Plugins May 9th, 2005 at 2:39 pm 80

[...] 9th, 2005 ~ Leonieke Aalders

Current list of plugins running on my website: Huddled Masses: Acronym Replacer skriker: IImage Brows [...]
melonpan » Blog Archive » computer…slowing…down… May 27th, 2005 at 6:18 pm 81

[...] ood in the fancy tooltips, so I decided to go in and do a quick hack. Also seems like the acronym replacer plugin [...]
Million Stitches » Tinker tinker May 29th, 2005 at 10:59 pm 82

[...] it, but it’s kind of a nice feature. I’ve also installed two more plugins: Acronym Replacer, from Joel Bennett adds a predefined acronym tag to [...]
Ben May 31st, 2005 at 9:41 am 83

PHP stands for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”, not “Hypertext PreProcessing”
Yesterdayishere » Yesterdayishere 1.5 June 19th, 2005 at 10:46 am 84

[...] ks properly now. Some plugins are used, too, and in case you’re wondering, they are: Acronym Replacer, My Comments, Custom Post Per Page, Recent Posts and [...]
Elliott Back » WordPress Customization Guide for Newbies July 13th, 2005 at 1:27 am 85

[...] Let me run down a few simple ideas: Insert a breadcrumb navigation on your page Add an Acronym Replacer so when your write AOL, it looks uber-stylish Turn o [...]
Chuck Reina July 13th, 2005 at 3:14 pm 86

I was experiencing the same problem as a few of you on this site when I would copy off the text from this website and past it into an empty Dreamweaver file. When I would try activating the plugin it would say something like unexpected T_Expression and not work.

The problem was in the white space on each line. Apparently they are a different type of white space then a regular push of the space bar. So I put the code into BBedit lite and set it to display hidden characters and spaces. Then I selected one of the wrong space (it was displayed as a solid dot, not a hollow dot) and did a find replace, replacing the trouble makers with regular dots. Now it seams to be working great.

Also, I should note that I am using a Mac OS box running Tiger.
Jeannie July 19th, 2005 at 11:06 am 87

great plugin! exactly what i’ve been hoping to find. unfortunately, it makes my admin go all wonky. i get the following errors above the rest of the wonky screen:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/account/public_html/wp-content/plugins/acronyms.php:141) in /home/account/public_html/wp-admin/admin.php on line 10

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/account/public_html/wp-content/plugins/acronyms.php:141) in /home/account/public_html/wp-admin/admin.php on line 11

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/account/public_html/wp-content/plugins/acronyms.php:141) in /home/account/public_html/wp-admin/admin.php on line 12

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/account/public_html/wp-content/plugins/acronyms.php:141) in /home/account/public_html/wp-admin/admin.php on line 13

i’m not php-savvy so it might be a simple fix. i just don’t know what it is. commenting out those lines in the admin.php file didn’t do me any good LOL. any chance for some help?
Jeannie July 19th, 2005 at 9:38 pm 88

joel rocks! thanks for the great plug-in!
Firda July 27th, 2005 at 9:00 am 89

I get the same errors in my admin as Jeannie did. What should I do to fix it?

Otherwise, it’s a great plugin.

Thanks!
Divided by void » Blog Archive » Plugin madness July 28th, 2005 at 1:30 pm 90

[...] or everyone who posts here. To get your own Gravatar to be displayed, go to gravatar.com. Acronym replacer Simple. Adds acronym tags to all acronyms. What more [...]
Simon July 28th, 2005 at 2:01 pm 91

Great plugin!

By the way Jeannie:
Check for spaces, newlines or any characters before the , and remove them. That should work.
Blogging Pro China » WordPress Plugin: Auto Link July 28th, 2005 at 7:05 pm 92

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Mike August 15th, 2005 at 11:01 am 93

For those that were getting the errors, I got them too, I had a extra char (CR I think) after the closing ?> Make sure that there is nothing (no space, line break, etc) after the ?> and it should fix it.
FranA?ois August 21st, 2005 at 8:03 am 94

I have strictly no space or CR or anything outside my php open/close tags, yet I still get 4 “couldn’t modify headers” errors. Quite annoying. Does this have to do with the file encoding? I’m in UTF-8 to match my WP install.
FranA?ois August 21st, 2005 at 8:05 am 95

Wait: I changed encoding to Western ISO-1 (8859-1) and now it seems fine.

Frankly, would getting a direct link to the plugin file be too much to ask for? That encoding bug would vanish.
Taking Your Camera on the Road » WordPress Tips and Tricks - WordPress Plugins September 10th, 2005 at 1:19 pm 96

[...] One of the really useful WordPress plugins I forget about is Acronym Replacer Plugin. It puts an underlined “link” on a wide variety of acronyms like HTML, XML, MSIE, and AOL. When the user moves their mouse over the acronym, a small balloon pops up explaining what these abbreviations mean. You can easily add your own following the format provided by the author. [...]
Jaykul September 23rd, 2005 at 4:22 pm 97

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.
ara pehlivanian » Blog Archive » Moving in: the anatomy of a WordPress design (Part 1) October 5th, 2005 at 11:00 pm 98

[...] So here’s what I’ve done so far: I’ve routed my feeds through Feedburner, I’ve claimed the blog on Technorati, I’ve added Talkr podcasting to the posts (see post footers), I’ve gotten rid of the “www” prefix from my address (thanks for the heads up Mathias), I’ve installed a few WordPress plugins that’ll make my life easier such as: IImage Browser, the Huddled Masses Acronym Replacer and the Coldforged Spelling Checker and I’ve imported a few of my posts from passable and the simple web. [...]
ONAT LOPERA » Site Umph-dates! - Part Une October 25th, 2005 at 7:21 pm 99

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Henrik November 1st, 2005 at 2:49 pm 100

Thank you for that plugin. It’s nice to get acronyms without writing them manually. But there is a part which doesn’t behave well at least for the german language. When I’m using “im” within a post it will be replaced with the acronym. Which shouldn’t be done. In my opinion only big letters should trigger a replacement. I tried one of the other regex within your plugin, but I always get following error: “Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in path/plugins/acronyms.php on line 174”.
Jaykul November 1st, 2005 at 9:34 pm 101

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).
bueltge.de [by:ltge.de] December 5th, 2005 at 5:26 am 102

WP – Abbreviation Replacer (Plugin)

Die Auszeichung von Texten im Web stellt oft einen groAYen Aufwand an den Autor einer Website oder eines Artikels im Netz dar und wird ebenso oft falsch gemacht, wie man hier bei einem Artikel von Labuschin Webdesign nachlesen kann. Um das ganze ein we…
kiroro December 25th, 2005 at 10:29 am 103

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?
Ryan.Hardester.com » Huddled Masses A? Blog Archive A? WordPress Plugin - Acronym Replacer December 27th, 2005 at 4:33 pm 104

[...] Huddled Masses A? Blog Archive A? WordPress Plugin – Acronym Replacer [...]
Dave December 30th, 2005 at 12:54 pm 105

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?
Jaykul December 31st, 2005 at 12:10 pm 106

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, $file is 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.
Dave January 3rd, 2006 at 12:36 pm 107

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”.
UNN Testing WP2.0 » Blog Archive » Plugins January 11th, 2006 at 8:48 am 108

[...] Acronym Replacer disables all the other plugins, but if you re-enable them all then it works. Added to codex [...]
Dave January 25th, 2006 at 8:39 am 109

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”].
Dell January 27th, 2006 at 2:54 pm 110

Thanks for it …was looking for a similar plugin !
ddhr.org January 29th, 2006 at 11:12 pm 111

[...] I upgraded my source viewing script. The original one was an adaptation of a script from Corz. The new one incorporates some information from SitePoint and Huddled Masses by including line numbers and a download link. The mouseover highlighting was my little trick. You can view its source here. Sun, 29 Jan 2006 @ 23:11:23 in Updates Leave a comment Name: [...]
4null4.de - Blog around the world February 2nd, 2006 at 2:45 pm 112

Recommended Wordpress Plugins…

Since I started blogging several months have passed now, and I’ve gathered some certain experience with the different plugins for wordpress that are available throughout the net. Some are updated regularly, some aren’t, but all of them that…
Subaqua Sternal Rubs February 4th, 2006 at 1:21 am 113

Acronym Replacer…

Since some of my readers do not come from the medical realm, I have installed an Acronym Replacer to spell out those cryptic little words. In other words, I got tired of writing everything out.
If you have any suggestions for acronyms which I use t…
Site Of Abel » Blog Archive » El Principito February 16th, 2006 at 3:16 pm 114

[...] Acronym Replacer: Busca los acrA?nimos que hayamos definido y los rodea con etiquetas acronym con su descripciA?n. Es un script muy simple en el que tendremos que editar la lista de acrA?nimos directamente en el archivo PHP. Un sustituto mA?s cA?modo es a??Remplazador de AcrA?nimosa?? de NicolA?s Fantino. [...]
Wordpress Customization for Newbies | How to Blog March 20th, 2006 at 8:07 pm 115

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Robert January 16th, 2008 at 7:20 pm 116

The page layout design on this website needs to be fixed. It chops off all of the comments so they can’t be read. Btw, in terms of legibility, the ideal line length is 12-17 words… not 30-40!

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