Shortcut Macros 1.0

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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.

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Posted January 30th, 2007 @ 4:20 PM

6 Replies

  1. Luke adds this Comment:

    Now that is a clever little tool. Thanks a lot mate, I’ll definitely be using that in the future!

    January 30th, 2007 at 4:36 pm

  2. Kay adds this Comment:

    This is about the only plugin that I was missing when I transitioned over from MT to WP.

    Thanks!

    January 31st, 2007 at 6:03 am

  3. Kay adds this Comment:

    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.

    January 31st, 2007 at 6:33 am

  4. Alan J Castonguay adds this Comment:

    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.

    January 31st, 2007 at 5:58 pm

  5. Alex adds this Comment:

    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. :)

    January 31st, 2007 at 6:06 pm

  6. Kay adds this Comment:

    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]

    February 1st, 2007 at 8:30 pm

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