[wp-hackers] Templatedia, a new work in progress plugin

[Stephane Daury]

That is cool (hadn't read the thread yet).

Stephane



On Aug 30, 2007, at 18:44, Viper007Bond wrote:

> You can't use this in the actual theme files (use include() for  
> that). This
> is strictly for actual post/page content, hence the add_filter().
>
> An example usage:
>
> You have a bunch of plugins you've written and a page for each. You  
> want to
> have a color/styled box on each plugin's page that has a fancy  
> icon, says
> what the latest version is, and has a download link. Well, rather than
> duplicating the HTML into each post, you use this plugin and make a
> template, such as this (we'll call it "downloadbox"):
>
> <div
> style="background-color:yellow;width:300px;text- 
> align:center;float:right;"><img
> src="/foo/bar/file.png" alt="File" /><br /><br />Latest Version: <a  
> href="
> http://site.com/files/{{file}}">{{version|Download}}</a></div>
>
> Then you would just put this into your post/page:
>
> {{downloadbox|file=plugin.zip|version=1.2.6}}
>
> or even this to just display "Download" for the link:
>
> {{downloadbox|file=plugin.zip}}
>
> Follow? :)
>
> On 8/30/07, Computer Guru <computerguru at neosmart.net> wrote:
>>
>> Nice idea, that's for sure :-)
>>
>> Can "template elements" be used from within posts as well? Or only in
>> the theme php?
>>
>> Wasn't there a plugin a while back for adding Smarty to WP? Anyone
>> know what happened to it?
>>
>> On 8/30/07, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com> wrote:
>>> I was bored the other day, in the mood to code, and surfing when it
>> occurred
>>> to me that Wikipedia / MediaWiki's template system would work  
>>> well as a
>>> template system for posts. For example, a box that says "download  
>>> this
>>> plugin" with a fancy icon and all that. You could simply do
>>> {{downloadbox|file.zip}} and it'd put the box's HTML there along  
>>> with
>> the
>>> right link.
>>>
>>> So, partially as a coding challenge to myself but as well as to  
>>> develop
>> a
>>> plugin I figured some people might get some use out of, I present  
>>> you
>> all my
>>> new plugin: Templatedia
>>>
>>> At 100 lines of code, it's a lot simpler than I expected it to  
>>> be, but
>> then
>>> again it has no user interface yet and is still missing some  
>>> advanced
>>> template abilities that the original MediaWiki format has.
>>>
>>> If you'd like to check out what I have so far, I've pastebin'ed it:
>>> http://wp-hackers.pastebin.com/f3c38ad72
>>>
>>> Be warned -- it may not the best way to go about doing this  
>>> feature. I
>> came
>>> up with it from scratch and didn't use anything as a basis in  
>>> terms of
>> code.
>>> I'm also really inexperienced when it comes to regex, so no laughing
>> please.
>>> :P
>>>
>>> Feature suggestions and comments are welcome, especially at this  
>>> early
>> stage
>>> when it's still easy to change things. ;)
>>>
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