First WordPress Plugin…Sort of 22.July.2008
About a month ago I released my first WordPress plugin. Well, it is not really mine, I just wanted to see some additional functionality so like a good member of the open source community I just added it and polished up some other rough edges. Then gave it back to the project to be included in the latest official release.
Scripturizer allows a WordPress author to simply type in a Bible reference and Scripturizer will automatically turn that reference text into a link so that a site’s visitors can click through to read the text of the passage. It even works with comments.
I wanted the ability to view the passage without having the visitor to have to leave the site. Therefore, the main feature I added with a rollover tooltip, thanks in part to Prototype and Jonathan Weiss’ tooltip.js. I also improved the user experience by simplifying the admin panel and as well as bringing inline with the WordPress 2.5 look. On top of that, the code has been streamlined to remove unnecessary function calls.
