I’ve released yet another WordPress plugin – this one is called Shortcut Macros. This is a real one-trick pony, all it does is auto-expand shortcuts you create to the longer text you have specified for the shortcut.
For example, if you link to my site often, you might create a macro of ##ak which would expand to <a href="http://alexking.org/">Alex King, master WordPress plugin developer</a>. 
Simple and effective, and oh-so-handy for lazy folks like me.
The download and more information are available on my WordPress Plugins page.
If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the WP Support Forums and send me the link.
Now that is a clever little tool. Thanks a lot mate, I’ll definitely be using that in the future!
This is about the only plugin that I was missing when I transitioned over from MT to WP.
Thanks!
Works quite nicely, but there’s one thing that would make it even more useable:
Say you want a shortcut for google, you could make it something like ##g(test) and the resulting entry would be http://www.google.nl/search?q=test
Basically make it so that it accepts arguments.
That’s a really solid suggestion, Kay. It complicates the plugin, but at least with respect to myself, makes it useful, similar to the way Firefox’s QuickSearches does.
I guess I don’t really see the value in that addition – you’ll need to sell me on it if you want me to spend time building it.
Okay, say you like to tag your posts with the music you were listening too, you’d type:
##lyrics(Mogwai – Auto Rock) and you’d get something like:
Listened to: Mogwai – Auto Rock [L]