[Plugin: Simple Tags] Suggestion: Limit auto tag to first tag it finds

  • Sometimes I use a word 20 times in one post but don’t want every word to be linked by the auto tagger. Could you work in a feature that lets you choose to link all occurrences of the word or just the first occurrence?

    Thanks! You’ve done an awesome job with this plugin – it’s my favorite by far.

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  • Agreed. I actually visited this forum hoping to figure out how to accomplish this, but I guess it isn’t a feature yet.

    Also, I am assuming the previous poster is referring to the “auto link” functionality, not “auto tags”.

    I’m also trying to find a solution to this and am suprised it hasn’t been implemented.

    Also looking for this feature.

    A quick hack which works for me is to modify simple-tags.client.php for the version of wordpress in use (in my case 2.5). This only works on PHP5+

    Find function autoLinkTags (~line 247) and a bit further down find $token = preg_replace($match, $substitute, $token); // only PHP 5 supports calling preg_replace with 5 arguments

    Add an extra parameter to preg_replace at the end with the value of 1 so it becomes:

    $token = preg_replace($match, $substitute, $token, 1); // only PHP 5 supports calling preg_replace with 5 arguments

    This will match the first occurance of a word/tag in a paragraph. Not ideal, but its better than every tag.

    I’ll leave it for the plugin author to make the necessary changes to the actual plugin ?? Hopefully in the next version.

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