InScript
| Download: | inscript.zip |
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| Version: | 1.7.3 |
| Updated: | September 18, 2007 |
| Size: | 151.97 KB |
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InScript is an extensible scripting framework that provides the capability to insert and modify data without needing to modify any WordPress files.
At the simplest level, it is a generic pattern matcher – it searches for specific patterns, or tags, and replaces them with something else. However, instead of replacing these patterns with static text, you can replace them with variables, functions, and even PHP code.
Some of the features that InScript provides are:
- Dynamic variables, which can be used in many places and are automatically updated (the version and last updated details above are dynamic variables)
- Disable WordPress texturize functions across the whole blog, individual posts, or even individual words
- Conversely, enable texturize, textile, markdown, or any formatting on individual posts or words
- Embed well-defined scripts inside posts and any other part of WordPress, without modifying the theme
The embedded scripts are very powerful, and allow you to do things like:
- Insert post & author information
- Add HTTP meta-values and make them post-specific
- Customise the appearance of words, paragraphs, or posts
- Change date formats on individual sections
- Insert highlighted code
- Insert custom PHP code
- Add custom stylesheets for specific posts
Because of the extensible nature of the plugin, you can add ‘scriptlets’ (mini-plugins) that provide extra features and yet use the same InScript framework.
Here are the current scriptlets:
- rss-link-list.zip - embed RSS feeds in conjunction with the rssLinkList plugin (which must be installed and enabled)
- pinyin-converter.zip - Pinyin converter allows Chinese pinyin to be inserted in the form zhong1guo2 and converted to the correct tonal version of zhōngguó
Note: install scriptlets into the /wp-content/plugins/inscript/scripts directory.
No really, what does it do?
The best way to explain what InScript does is by providing examples. Note that these examples are provided 'live' by InScript.
Example 1 – Code highlighting
Often you want to highlight some code within a post. This creates several problems:
- Code uses special characters that interfere with HTML
- WordPress mangles a lot of the characters
- It’s a chore to color the code by hand
We can insert an InScript tag to do all this for us.
And this produces:
<?php
if (empty($doing_rss)) {
$doing_rss = 1;
require(dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-blog-header.php');
}
do_feed();
?>
Example 2 – Blog title & description
Notice anything special about the title of this page? No? Okay, go and look at it again. Yes, that's right, it's different from the rest of the blog. This is because of these two custom fields:
inscript_option_blogname = SuburbanGiraffe
More fun
Of course, all of these are simplistic examples. Separate plugins already exist to achieve many of the functions described here. The point is that InScript gives you the ability to perform these functions anywhere in your blog, using just one syntax and one plugin. Additionally, you can customise the output exactly as you want, using a wider range of functions. You can cook up all sorts of madness – now, who’s for colour-highlighted code in their title?
Before I finish, here are some more live functions:
- Word shuffle - nf de ramanemit lasdgisa ishfsn douy ale mk
- Reverse - nigulp ym ot emoclew dna dlrow olleh
- Rot13 - uryyb jbeyq naq jrypbzr gb zl cyhtva
- Leet - h3ll0 w0rld 4nd w3lc0m3 70 my plug1n
- Email obsfucator - test dot email at example dot com
- System info - Linux 2.6.18-xen #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 06:40:50 UTC 2008 x86_64
- Time since - this page was created 2 years 11 months ago (as opposed to 2005-06-05 11:29:09)
- PHP version - 5.2.3-1ubuntu6.3
- HTTP agent - your browser is CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)
- WordPress version - 2.3.3
And here's the WordPress calendar function embedded into a post:
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Feb | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |
This article has 951 words (and this is updated live)
Comments (page 11 of 11)
Dec 9, 2007 11:44 pm
Andy, Dominic, you're better off using Sniplets.
Dec 4, 2007 8:36 am
Hi
I can across this plugin whilst looking at your redirection plugin.
Where is the documentation, it is not in the zip file?
Does this plugin allow me to put javascript in a post or widget?
Thanks in advance
Sep 10, 2007 1:58 pm
Hi John, I'm trying to use your plugin InScript, but I can't find the documentation file "inscript.pdf". I do not see it on the plugin page or in the zip file. Please help!
Jul 1, 2007 1:25 am
Hi Joetke, it looks like you've got two versions of InScript installed. One is at
plugins/inscript.php, and the other is atplugins/inscript/inscript.php. The correct version is the last.Jun 29, 2007 7:23 pm
A complaint from a fan
.Got no time to fix it on my own.
I upgrade to the latest version of inscript 1.7.3. Bad idea ! I caught this wordpress 2.1 plugin management message:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare escape_string() (previously declared in /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/inscript.php:70) in /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/inscript/inscript.php on line 73
Any help will be appreciated. Sounds like a code typo
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