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Dustin Diamond

This plugin allows you to put a cryptoquote on your site.  See it in action here.

Installation:

Download the plugin here.

Unpack the zip file into your wp-content/plugins directory.

Enable cryptoquote in your WordPress plugin admin page.

Use:

In order to put a cryptoquote on your page, simply put your phrase inside the following tags:

[cryptoquote] [/cryptoquote]

That’s it!  If all you want to do is turn a phrase into a cryptoquote, it will encrypt it for you.

If you already have a phrase that has been encrypted, you can disable the auto-encrypt by adding the following parameter to your tag:

[cryptoquote encrypt='false'] [/cryptoquote]

The choice is yours.  As an added bonus to your readers, if you let the plugin encrypt the phrase for you, a permalink will be added to the bottom of the puzzle that allows them to go back to the cryptoquote with the same cypher in place.

TODO:

• The permalink doesn’t preserve any other GET variables, so this really only works if you’re using some sort of WordPress permalink setting for your entries.
• Figure out a better way to do citations for the quotes.
• replace use of strtr() with a multibyte-safe version
• Add parameters:

• more=’true’ : Prepend puzzle with a “more” tag

Version History:

11/9/2008 – version 1.0

Initial release

If you have any bugs or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment on this page.

This plugin is based on the original cryptoquote helper I wrote years ago, which can be found here.  For this plugin I completely rewrote the javascript code to make it work better in a blog environment, and because the original code was TERRIBLE (seriously, don’t look at it).