Acronyms Plugin
Description
Back while I was using Nucleus, I adapted a Wordpress plugin by Joel Bennett to place nice <acronym> tags around acronyms. Now that I’m back on WordPress, I’ve ported my Nucleus plugin back to Wordpress to incorporate the minor feature tweaks that I made, as well as adding an admin interface to manage the set of acronyms. I belatedly found out that Joel Bennett had already done something similar and indeed made some very neat enhancements to his original plugin but I think that my version will still serve the needs of most users very well. It will enclose any acronyms (as set in the admin panel) with <acronym> tags, doing so with a case-sensitive replacement and ensuring that overlapping acronyms are not doubly-enclosed.
Installation instructions
- Download the zip file (link below)
- Extract acronyms.php
- Upload acronyms.php to your wp-content/plugins directory
- Log in to your WordPress blog
- Click on “Plugins”
- Locate the “Acronyms” plugin and click “Activate”
- Go to “Manage” > “Acronyms” and customise your list of acronyms.
Links
Instead of downloading the zip, you can also check out the working copy from the Subversion repository:
svn co http://svn.wp-plugins.org/acronyms/trunk/
Changelog
- 1.5.2 - 14 Apr 2008
- [FIX] The acronym list when sorted by acronyms will now properly sort upper and lower cases
- [FIX] A conflict with WordPress that caused an error when trying to delete a draft has been corrected
- [FIX] The full text for TIFF in the default list of acronyms has been corrected
- [UPD] Deprecated action hooks replaced with the current versions
- 1.5.1 - 7 Apr 2008
- Fixed an unexpected side-effect of WordPress’ new plugin auto-update that broke some paths
- 1.5 - 7 Apr 2008
- Overhaul of the plugin to match the new WordPress 2.5 admin interface look and feel
- Acronyms after slash characters are now properly replaced
- The Acronyms management page now feature pagination, ordering by acronym or full text, and constraining the number of acronyms shown per page
- 1.0 - 24 Jul 2006
- Initial release
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Hey there. How do I send you my adjustments to your plugin? Also, did you create your theme? If so, are you available for design work?
To submit patches, click on the Bugtracker link, and create a new ticket. Attach a diff, or if you don’t know how to do that, just attach your modified plugin and I’ll take a look at it.
More details about my theme here. And no I’m not a professional designer by any means.
Thanks for this very useful and easy-to-use plugin :-)
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Thank you for this usefull plugin.
I got a litte problem:
If I activate acronyms-plugin and Link-Indication-plugin at same time, the acronyms-plugin kills the link-indication-plugin, but only if the acronym-word is placed before a link in same text paragraph.
If the link is before the acronym in same text paragraph, it works well.
Do you get any idea to fix it?
Additional:
The programmer of the Link-Indication-Plugin just published his new version 3.1 and the problem now is fixed.
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Hi, nice plugin! Especially handy for me who writes occasionally about a country that sometimes reminds me of that sketch from Life of Brian.
However, this one seems to get confused over apostrophes in acronym titles. For instance, my acronym EPLF now reads “Eritrean People\’s Liberation Front” — yes, with that backslash before the possessive apostrophe.
Great stuff, I really love this plugin. Thank you very much :)
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Hello.
I begin with Wordpress.
I translated your plugin into French.
What then I to make some?
Friendships.
Vincent
I want to add some of my slang to the plugin.
If I add manky then add the description Scruffy, dirty, distasteful, disgusting
Can I get the text displayed as “manky” and not changed to all uppercase “MANKY”?
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Danke für dieses tolle Plugin. Einfach zu installieren, läuft prima auch auf WP 2.*
Is this plugin comatible to the new WP 2.3? I just installed ir in that WP version and typed a list of acronyms, but in my test the plugin didn’t work.
It’s definitely working with WP 2.3. This blog is using 2.3, and if you look at http://ketsugi.com/panegyrist/japanese-smses/ you’ll see that it’s working just fine.
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OK, it was my mistake. I stored the acronyms.php into a subfolder of the plugins-folder. Now I put it directly in the plugin-folder, and it works fine.
Glad you resolved it, Markus. Let me know if you have any further issues.
Love this plug-in — thanks for providing it to the community. One question that I have, however, is that it doesn’t seem to support numbers. In my case, I use file formats extensively, and I receive the error ‘Must be a single word.’ when I attempt to use a format acronym, such as J2K, for (JPEG 2000 Format).
I also noticed that it doesn’t recognize if a slash character is presented before the acronym — such as if you have acronyms written as USA/USAF. It’ll take the first, but it won’t take the second after the slash character. This appears to be the same for hyphens.
Daniel, I’ll take that into consideration when I start working on the next version. Thanks for your feedback!
My pleasure! Keep up the great work!
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Thanks for your great plugin.
I have one new feature idea. Wouldn’t it be nice if one had an option to only have the title attribute on the first occurrence of the particular acronym?
It can be annoying to have ones text cluttered with many underlined acronyms. This would also resample the Wiki style of linking only the first occurrence of a term.
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This is a great plugin, but in WP 2.5, when one goes to Manage, Posts, Drafts. Try and delete a draft it generates an error (Links ‘Please try again’) and one isn’t able to delete a draft, could affect other things. Please fix this. I’ve isolated the problem to this plugin after testing endlessly.
Hi Blaenk Denum,
Thanks for pointing this out; I hadn’t noticed this before as I haven’t tried deleting anything yet. This will be fixed in the next release.
Just what I’ve been looking for.
But I would like to be able to use
abbrtags as well. I have good reason to believe thatacronymis only supposed to be used for acronyms like NATO, which you pronounce as a word–abbrshould otherwise be used.Hi Joshua,
I have had plans to add in the option to designate whether a stored initialism is an acronym or abbreviation, but shelved it for the time being. The 1.5.x release was simply meant to bring the plugin up to speed with the WordPress 2.5 release. I’m definitely thinking about how to build this in, probably for a 1.6 release sometime.
Thanks for your suggestion!
Hey ketsugi thanks for updating it! Everything seems to be working now.
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I’m getting this error when I try to activate this plugin:
Line 457 reads:
printf( __( "Show %d acronyms per page", $domain ), $option );What seems to be the problem? :\
Thanks! :)
I re-downloaded the plugin from the WordPress site, uploaded it to my server, and now it works. So… Yeah. Problem solved.
Thanks for this plugin! :D