We try to link the first mention of our projects and other common terms in every blog post. It takes a lot of time and makes blogging boring.
We developed Word Linker plugin to automatically link keywords in blog posts. It saves a ton of time for commonly linked terms. There are several plugins out there with similar functionality, but we weren’t happy with the quality of the code. We took care to optimize database use so there is only one call per post.
This plugin replaces the first instance of keywords in our posts automatically. It’s smart enough to leave already linked keywords untouched.
- Replaces the first instance of keywords
- Ignores already-linked keywords
- Database optimized
Here’s the SVN. We submitted it to the WordPress plugin database too.
404 on the source. FWIW.
Updated. Thank you, sorry about that.
This is fantastic, thanks for the great plugin!
The SVN link from your wiki page also needs updating.
Guys, fantastic plug-in! The only thing I’d add is the ability to have the links open in a new window or not. For example if we check a box to “open links in new window”, the code would add target=”_blank”. I hardcoded mine plug-in to do this but I think it’d be neat to include that in the next version!
Thanks again for the plug-in!
When I searched for to see if your plugin was in the wordpress database yet, it looks like there may be several plugins that do this sort of thing already, don’t know if they are more feature rich or not. IE http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rejected-wp-keyword-link-rejected/
I used that one briefly, but I didn’t like the code and it seemed to make way more database calls than needed. It also used a lot of features that change between versions, it hasn’t been updated in a while.
Good to know. It looked like a lot of them were in fact broken and stale as you say. The new look is quite nice btw.
Thanks :) After 2 years of using default themes I wanted an update. We’re working on getting everything else using the same basic theme too.
Is your wordpress theme based on anything anymore or is it from scratch? I notice there is no credit line anymore at the bottom. If from scratch did you use anything for a base or totally from scratch?
It’s based on this blank theme with custom styling:
http://starkerstheme.com/
This is the first big thing we didn’t do in-house. We hired someone to do this and he did an *amazing* job. The random schematic symbols and microphone over the comments were total surprises.
They are nice touches indeed. The first one I noticed as fuse, but then I noticed every post had a different one. I actually looked at Starkers or actually just ran across it looking for a blank theme as I did a quick hack on a theme to make it look exactly like my webgen template. I may rewrite from scratch, but I have trouble drawing icons and things.