Peter’s Useful Crap

16 Responses to “Automatically generate your blog URL in WordPress posts”

1. November 17th, 2008 at 6:08 am
   
   Jim says:

   Hey, Peter, have you considered adding your plugins to the official WordPress.org plugin repository? I've pretty much taken to not downloading any plugins that aren't on their site, simply from the perspective of getting the updates as they come available. I do like the idea of this plugin, though, as there are times I've wanted a quick and easy way to insert my link.

2. November 17th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
   
   Peter says:

   Thanks for the suggestion, Jim. I hope to have it on wordpress.org soon. You can see the other plugins (not a comprehensive list, sadly) I've added here.

   Update: this plugin has now been added to: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/peters-blog-url-shortcodes/

3. November 19th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
   
   nancy aka money coach says:

   Hey Peter - that raises a question for me. The plugin above suggests duplicate content (or is it truly just duplicate images?) which is something I've wondered about - I'd like to post my blog entries on my http://www.yourmoneybydesign.com site as well. However, I've heard google downgrades you for doing that. Do you know anything about that? Awesome plugin, btw. I'm going to tweet about it.

4. November 19th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
   
   nancy aka money coach says:

   oops - pardon - I think I misread the first paragraph. You're simply referring to changing the existing blog's url, not duplicate content.

5. November 19th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
   
   Peter says:

   Hey Nancy, no worries Regarding the duplicate content issue, I haven't had to deal with it, but if you're just double posting, from what I know you're just forcing Google to choose which post to display in their results. It might only show the post from one of the sites — not a huge problem if it comes to that.

6. December 5th, 2008 at 5:01 am
   
   Steve Bossman says:

   Thank you all for you suggestions will give it a go!

7. January 11th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
   
   Daniel N. Lang says:

   Thanks, Peter. I've been looking for such a plugin a long time ago already, but have so far never found one. My skills are too limited to set it into practice, otherwise I would have tried it myself. Do you have any reports about conflicts with other plugins? I'm thinking about giving it a try, too.

8. January 11th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
   
   Peter says:

   Hi Daniel, so far I have not received any reports of conflicts with other plugins. If there are any conflicts, I will certainly look into addressing them.

9. February 13th, 2009 at 8:58 am
   
   Mario says:

   Your plug-in returns the WordPress URL and not the blog URL. I have WordPress in a subfolder called WordPress. My blog url is http://site.com and my WordPress URL is http://site.com/wordpress. The latter is what your plug-in returns. For an update, it would be nice, if [blogurl] would return what I have entered under "Blog Address (URL)" in the settings. Otherwise it is rather irritating. Another [wordpressurl] tag would then be nice in addition to [blogurl].

10. February 14th, 2009 at 11:34 am
    
    Peter says:

    Thanks for pointing that out, Mario. I'll add that for a future release. In the meantime, if anybody needs that URL distinction, you can follow the code in my plugin and use get_option('home') for that value instead of get_option('siteurl').

11. April 1st, 2009 at 3:01 am
    
    Austin @ NicheWeapons says:

    Brilliant, thank you Peter - was just looking into shortcodes to do exactly this

12. May 22nd, 2009 at 3:30 pm
    
    Greg says:

    I desperately want this plugin to work, but I'm having some issues with it. I'm running WP 2.7.1 with this plugin installed, yet everytime I try to use the shortcode, it doesn't convert the tag to the URL.. I just see "[blogurl]" in the middle of my page. Does the plugin definitely work with 2.7.1, and I'm just doing something stupid?

    Reply from Peter: Yes, it is confirmed to be working with 2.7.1 with and without the visual editor enabled. Perhaps there is a conflicting plugin or somehow it isn’t actually activated?

13. August 4th, 2009 at 10:21 am
    
    Jen says:

    Is there a way to get this to work in custom fields?

    Reply from Peter: There may be a way to parse custom fields the same way as post / page bodies, but off the top of my head I do not know how.

14. November 24th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
    
    Don says:

    How would I add a token for [admin_email]?
    I tried but failed to hack it. I looks like any option for 'get_bloginfo' should work…I'm not good enough to figure it out I guess…any help? I'd like to just add this to what is there already…this plugin is so cool!

    Reply from Peter: It would look something like:

    function adminEmailFunc() {
    return get_bloginfo( ‘admin_email’ );
    }

    add_shortcode(’admin_email’, ‘adminEmailFunc’);

15. November 25th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
    
    Don says:

    Unbelievable! A free plugin and you help me hack it for free. You are extraordinary, Sir!

16. November 30th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
    
    Eric says:

    Peter, can you supply me with the code I would be able to use for your plugin to insert a short code for the post title?

    Thanks,
    Eric

    Reply from Peter: The example two posts above should give you enough of a framework. You have to search the WordPress documentation to see how to access the post title generally. Due to the number of requests that I get, the volunteer time I can dedicate is limited.

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