phpGiggle-1.0.2 Updated Release

Podz and other WordPress users: Thanks for your feedback.
This new release should fix the issues you were encountering.
Tony

Wonderful ??
Works great – thank you very much for your work ??

mtanner,
That’s a good idea. I think I need a config file to set options like that.
For now, you’d need to edit some lines in the switch-case statement at the bottom of the giggle_autolink function. You see the href lines in there.
Tony

All,
Any feedback on phpGiggle’s speed?
It seems to work pretty damned fast in the testing I’ve done.
Tony

I’m not at all complaining, just wondering, will this throw Google out with the increasing number of links appearing in blogs ? Or maybe it could redress some of the spamming stuff ?
Not quite for this forum I know, but it’s a thought ……

mtanner,
Yep, only the text inside a post. More accurately, only the text WordPress’s ‘the_content’ function renders.
The my-hacks.php files specifies this behavior through the statement:
add_filter('the_content', 'giggle_wordpress');
Tony

podz,
Could you elaborate on your questions? Not quite sure I’m following you’re meaning…
Tony

If Google trawls for links, and uses the number of links as an indicator of a site’s popularity, and hence influences it’s search result position (which the comment spammers seem to think works), then by using phpGiggle, a greater number of links will be appearing in blogs.
More links in blogs therefore will affect Google if it continues with it’s search algorithms.
Like I said, not a criticism … but it could be used that way ?

podz,
Wow. So you’re suggesting that phpGiggle could affect Google search dynamics? and that blogs using phpGiggle would begin to come-up higher Google search results?
That would be pretty cool. I would think that an awful lot of bloggers would have to download and install phpGiggle for that to happen..
Where does WordPress rank in populariry as far as web blog software goes?
Anyone have any idea?
Tony

I’m not sure if the blogs would, but certainly I’d say that if I linked one website of mine – https://www.abody.co.uk – a whole lot, (say I mentioned it in a post everyday) it certainly couldn’t harm it could it ? Previously, I’ve just typed ‘abody’ which Google would just see as a word, but now it would see the hyperlink too.
I don’t know huge amounts about this, but as Google counts a link to a site as a plus, then more links = more pluses … unless I’m wrong on this ?

podz,
It has been my understanding that Google works in the very way you describe. I attended a keynote from Google’s CEO at LinuxWorld a few years ago where he said essentially the same thing about how Google rates pages.
Do you plan on using phpGiggle for https://www.abody.co.uk ?
Surely phpGiggle can’t be the first program to dynamically generate hypertags in this manner.
Do you thinks there are actually that many sites which would be interested in using phpGiggle?
I guess the hotscripts.com posting as been getting a lot of hits… but damn.. enough installations to affect Google? That would rock.
Tony

mtanner,
place the larger phrases first in your words file. e.g.:

Comedy_Central= https://comedycentral.com
comedy = https://comedy.com

In this manner, comedy central will always be matched before comedy. Hope this answers your question.
Regarding user comments, let me take a look at the wordpress hacks api and see whats possible.
Tony

mtanner,
Regarding the use of phpGiggle for WordPress comments, add this line to your my-hacks.php:
add_filter(‘comment_text’, ‘giggle_wordpress’);
I’ll incorporate this addition in the next release.
Tony

Very nice hack, but it can’t deal with Non-Latin character sets (Hebrew etc). Can you adopt it for World-wide use?

Tony,
I don’t plan on using it for abody particularly (it’s a local bodyart studio so the ‘catchment area’ is quite small) but the implications are, like you say, interesting…..
I wonder how long it will be before someone writes a similar hack for MT …. and what impact that will have..?