Comments on: Wordspinner – Free Word Spinner Plugin for Wordpress

By: kythin

kythin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:28:25 +0000

it’s a PHP reserved character, so you would need to get into the code of the addon. You will need to add another str_replace(“|”,”\|”,$spintext); or something along those lines.

it would probably be easier to run a find/replace on your database than code it properly, which is why I didn’t spend any time on it in the first place

I’ll fix it in a future release (strapped for time in the forseeable future though)

By: seoserpent

seoserpent — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:46:09 +0000

@kythin: I see you talk about not being able to use the pipe {|} unless properly escaped. Can you explain what needs to be done to accomplish that? Thanks!

By: kythin

kythin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:25:06 +0000

@siteblaster: In theory that would work, if you set WordSpinner to use double brackets it should stop messing with your other shortcodes.

They could be anything, actually. They dont have to be the same character, and they dont have to be brackets, e.g. it could be set to use %$some*words*to*spin$% for all it cares. (untested, but should work!)

By: siteblaster

siteblaster — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:08:52 +0000

Hey Kythin,

I am having an issue with a couple of my seasoned plugins not working correctly (I missed them before). I was doing some spinning within some plugin’s CSS and HTML code. Works great in that capacity.

However, a couple of my plugins use short-codes which look like this {someshort-code]. It appears that WordSpinner actually tries to process this and thus that plugin fails.

I tried changing the WordSpinners delimiter but I have been met with error codes when I try spinning with them. I tried ” { , } ” as well as ” { | } “.

How would you change them to use a different escape sequence?

Would is work by just using dual brackets like [[phrase#1,phrase#2,phrase#3]] ?

Thanks for your time.

By: siteblaster

siteblaster — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:55:27 +0000

Hey Kythin!

I got it working! Never mind and thanks for your plugin.

By: siteblaster

siteblaster — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:41:56 +0000

Kythin,

Thanks for your time. If you would look at http://buddyshearer.com/ and then look at the Footer you will see what I am trying to do. Its as if the code is not being processed.

By: kythin

kythin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:35:44 +0000

@siteblaster

You should be able to do something like:
$somestr = “[Phrase 1,Phrase 2,Phrase 3]“;
echo run_spinner($somestring);

It will still use whatever characters you have set in your WP options as the end and separation characters though, so make sure they’re the same.

By: siteblaster

siteblaster — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:35:44 +0000

Kythin, Thanks for your previous response. I am trying to use this in my footer in a Text: Links widget but it is not working. I am using WP v2.9 so the previous usage instruction does not appear to work as altering line #611. So is there a way that it can be used in a more direct way? Like echo run_spinner([Keyword Phrase 1,Keyword Phrase 2,Keyword Phrase 3]); Thanks!

By: kythin

kythin — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:51:58 +0000

@siteblaster Thanks for the kudos! You can change the characters you want to use in the options in the WP admin, The pipe probably won’t work unless you escape it properly, the braces I think should be fine.

By: siteblaster

siteblaster — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:36:12 +0000

Kythin,

I must say that I am impressed. Simple, clean and very easy to implement. Kudos to you.

I have to ask, why did you use “[,]” instead of using the so called standard of “{~}” or the “|” characters?

And finally, is there a problem changing those three characters within the code? I see where I can change them I just thought I would ask so as to avoid any problems that you may have had.

Thanks again!

Buddy