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Hi, this plug-in is really interesting. I implemented on my site ( sara.lu -> see: https://www.sara.lu/trans/landmark-un-vote-on-sexual-orientation , as a first post on my site).

I modified the source code in order to:

– no longer display the picture. Not funny in the articles. Should be an option.
– display instead a title (“WorldTag: See what others blog about this”). Explains at least what all is about ( Should be user modifiable, but the reference to WorldTag should be there automatically)
– open in a new tab/window

I am nevertheless unable to do the following: ( because me and PHP is nada )

– Produce a dashed underline for the term marked ( just in order to make a difference vis-à-vis of the normal links – user modifiable ) unless it will be confusing
– include more than 1 word for the term to “worldtag”. I would have liked to include things like “gender identity” or “sexual orientation” as terms.
– Open a small window with a title ( modifiable ) showing 5 or 6 most referred to links followed by a “more” link that would open a new page/tab ( modifiable )

But already now, this plug-in could be a terrific link to automatically “rally”

OK, some good food for thought, i really like the idea of a being able to maipulate the window that opens.

I have deliberatly kept my side of things css free, and really light, would you be interested in a WP widget showing the other links?

in terms of the picture, it actaully does more than just show up. The best thing would be to use styles to make it invisible instead of removing it. I think offering some options rather than just having the pictures is a good call – i’ll see what i can do! thanks for the feed back.

Ok, version 1.1 is released. It has addressed the items that you listed in the first part. It adds a customisation menu to the plugins menu allowing you to control these options.

I have a few questions, and being the only user i am in touch with, i’d appreciate you thoughts:

• it would actually be pretty hard to modify the css, but i could put in some inline styles that again, i can make editable on the new menu. does that sound helpful?
• Adding multiple words is a challenge, what would you say to blogging “wt:gender_identity” and i turn it back into a link with “gender identity”?

thanks again for your valuble feedback.

Wow, that’s what I call reactiveness! Thank you. I already upgraded to the new version.

You are right: a modifiable inline style will be the best. The important part is that the WorldTag links can be easily distinguished from the other links. For me that means double underline or dashed underline as a selector option, the third option being the possibility to customize the inline style, for example.

Using the “underline” to concatenate several words into one for easy processing is a good idea. But maybe offer the possibility to “escape” the underline if ever it SHOULD be there. For the blogger it should not be a problem to add a “\” like in wt:target=”\_blank” to mark the underscore as a standard char to stay in place.

What do you mean “a WP widget showing the other links”? I am not quite sure how to understand your suggestion.

A few more suggestions for the plugin.

– Maybe indent the list of links that shows up on the page for easy readability
– offer a field in the plug-in config that allows to define, with a short list of single words, separated by commas, the scope of the blog. OK, I am dreaming, but …

As you could see, my blog is aimed to vehicle information about transgendered life, for trans people as well as for others. But in this context, if I write a post about the pope, the content might well be radically different from the post content of a catholic faith blog :-). I could easily describe the scope of my blog with the following words: LGBT, transgender, transsexual. The keywords might be used to filter later on the posts link list. I think 5 well chosen keywords will be sufficient to describe the scope of a blog. I don’t mean that there should be an active filter, but just the list of words available in a column to be searched upon. This could look like:

… | post information ….. | date | LGBT transgender transsexual

– maybe it would be nice to show the post title in the list ?

OK, let’s close with an offer, if needed. If ever you looked at my blog you might have noticed that this blog is poly-lingual: English, German, French and Luxembourgish. If ever you want the plugin to be multi-lingual as well, I can help you ( French, German, Luxembourgish ). Same for an upcoming user-guide.

Thank you again.
Sara

Hmm, ok. I completely understand where you are going with the link styling, and i can understand that cause. I’ll see if i can work something clever, like a few predefined styples you can choose from a dropdown, or a custom option that lets you define your own. The reason being that i want it to be as ‘light’ as possible, and as plugable as possible, so using CSS only effects is important.

I think the longer, and compund tagging is achievable, an escape string may be a good way to go, i’ll check it out!

It’s actually a little funny that you would suggest the keywords. I built the database with a field left in for something similar. I had intended to borrow the blog content and scan it for keywords that i could then use in a search on the main site. Althgough what you suggested has given me an idea – What about using the wordpress site tagline? that may provide similar funcationality with minimal input from the user.

I will continue to develop, but i have to back to my ‘day job’ tomorrow, so if nothing materialises imediatly, don’t panic!

Thanks again!