Short Description

I’m not sure I quite understand what you’ve done, so if you’d like to share the code here I’ll happily take a look.

Sorry, the changes made were to this function.
I also wanted to skip a plugin, so added that bit,
but the main thing was being able to offer a Short Description.
My little hack works fine, but it was not immediately obvious
how I could add the maximum length to the shortcode,
like max_desc=140 rather than having it hard coded.

<code>
 function replace_plugin_list_tags( $plugin_data, $format, $nofollow, $target ) {

	// SKIP PLUGIN BY NAME
	if ($plugin_data['Title'] == "Plugin Name") { unset($format); }

	// CREATE SHORT DESCRIPTION (truncate at first period or 140 characters)
	$pre_desc = explode('.', $plugin_data['Description']);
	$sho_desc = $pre_desc[0];
	$pos=strpos($sho_desc, ' ', 140);
	$sho_desc = (strlen($sho_desc) > 140) ? substr($sho_desc,0,$pos).'...' : $sho_desc.'.';

	$format = strtr(
		$format,
		array(
			'{{Title}}'        => $plugin_data['Title'],
			'{{PluginURI}}'    => $plugin_data['PluginURI'],
			'{{AuthorURI}}'    => $plugin_data['AuthorURI'],
			'{{Version}}'      => $plugin_data['Version'],
			'{{Description}}'  => $plugin_data['Description'],
			'{{ShortDesc}}'    => $sho_desc,
			'{{Author}}'       => $plugin_data['Author'],
			'{{LinkedTitle}}'  => "<a href='" . $plugin_data['PluginURI'] . "' title='" . $plugin_data['Title'] . "'" . $nofollow . $target . '>' . $plugin_data['Title'] . '</a>',
			'{{LinkedAuthor}}' => "<a href='" . $plugin_data['AuthorURI'] . "' title='" . $plugin_data['Author'] . "'" . $nofollow . $target . '>' . $plugin_data['Author'] . '</a>',
			'#Title#'          => $plugin_data['Title'],
			'#PluginURI#'      => $plugin_data['PluginURI'],
			'#AuthorURI#'      => $plugin_data['AuthorURI'],
			'#Version#'        => $plugin_data['Version'],
			'#Description#'    => $plugin_data['Description'],
			'#Author#'         => $plugin_data['Author'],
			'#LinkedTitle#'    => "<a href='" . $plugin_data['PluginURI'] . "' title='" . $plugin_data['Title'] . "'" . $nofollow . $target . '>' . $plugin_data['Title'] . '</a>',
			'#LinkedAuthor#'   => "<a href='" . $plugin_data['AuthorURI'] . "' title='" . $plugin_data['Author'] . "'" . $nofollow . $target . '>' . $plugin_data['Author'] . '</a>',
			'{{'               => '<',
			'}}'               => '>',
			'{'                => '<',
			'}'                => '>',
		)
	);

	return $format;
}
</code>

• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by DigTek.

Thanks. Okay, now I understand what it is that you’re doing. Next question – why? Why do you need a short description?

Personal preference I guess. I think the page is cleaner when all the items have a one line description. Some get long winded, but in most cases that one line does help explain what the plugin does when the title is not sufficient. I was just messing with some options mainly for my own use, but here is the page if you want to see why I like it that way.

https://wpmain.elite-star-services.com/plugin-testing/

Thanks for the context – that’s really helpful. I’ll look to add something like this, with the option to specify length.

https://github.com/dartiss/plugins-list/issues/41