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Link Summarizer

BIG FAT WARNING: VERSION 1.8.1 HAS BEEN REVOKED! If you’re using version 1.8.1 and are experiencing problems, please downgrade to 1.8. There are some serious bugs in this version.

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Current Version: 1.8

Content:

1. About Link-Summarizer
2. Donate
3. Download
4. Installation
5. Usage Examples
6. Deinstallation
7. Changelog
8. Feature Requests / Bug Reports
9. Support

About Link-Summarizer

I like it to have all links referred in a post summarized at the end of the post. That’s why i wrote a small little plugin for wordpress.In the admin panel you can configure which links should not be displayed in the summary, like the ones in this blog referring to different language versions of a post. You can use full regular expressions.

Donate

If you like the plugin consider donating a small amount to support further development. You can use PayPal or my Amazon Wishlist.

PayPal Donation:
Amazon.de Wishlist:

These users have supported development with donations or things from my wishlist:

• Uli Rennert

Download

As I moved development of Link Summarizer over to the platform wp-plugins.org you can download the plugin directly from the servers of WordPress.org:

• Current version: 1.8
• Development version (may be completely broken)
• A list of all downloads (including old versions) is available here

Old download stats:

• Downloads Version 1.0: [download#2#hits]
• Downloads Version 1.1: [download#1#hits]
• Downloads Version 1.2: [download#3#hits]
• Downloads Version 1.2.1: [download#4#hits]
• Downloads Version 1.3: [download#5#hits]

Installation

Installation of the plugin is straight forward:

1. unzip link-summarizer.zip into the plugin directory
2. activate Link Summarizer in the plugin manager
3. setup Link Summarizer via “Options” ->”Link Summarizer”

Usage Examples

Examples for regular expressions that could be used:The following are the rules I use in my blog at the moment of writing.

1. ^?lan=.*
2. ^?p=(d)*.*&lan=.*
3. ^#.+
4. http://mac.partofus.org/macpress/?p=d*#more-d*

These do the following:

1. all internal links starting with “?lan=” are omitted, i use this for the language swithing links in my blog, matches on index page
2. same as above, but for individual posts
3. omit local anchors in the SAME post
4. omit the “read more” link when using the_excerpt in your template or <!–more–> in individual posts

Another Example:If you never ever want to show any links to wikipedia, you could use the following:

• ^http://.*.wikipedia.org/.*

If you want to use the conditional show/hide feature to control the summary display on a per post basis, you have to use a custom field called ‘lnsum_show’ in your post.

• If you set it’s value to 1, the summary is shown regardless of the global setting
• If you set it’s value to 0, the summary is hidden regardless of the global setting

This feature can also be used on the index page and in the RSS feed, to get it to work you have to enable the correcponding “allow override” setting in the admin page.

Deinstallation

[english]For uninstall deactivate the plugin in the plugin manager, then delete the plugin files from the file system.[/english]

Changelog:

• Version 1.8.1 [Release 09/08/2009] REVOKED:
  • feature added: position of summary can now be choosen between above and below the post content
  • bugs fixed: some minor bugs in german translation
• Version 1.8 [Release 10/07/2009]:
  • bugs fixed: wrongly escaped characters in settings page fields (reported by Uli Rennert)
  • Compatibility enhancement: settingspage now uses register_settings for compatibility with WP >= 2.7
• Version 1.7a [Release 08/07/2009]:
  • bug fixed:
    • minor format fixes in admin panel
  • feature added:
    • localization now available, english and german included, please contact me (email, comment, forum) if you can contribute to further languages
• Version 1.6.2 [Release 31/05/2009]:
  • feature added
    • change filter priority from within the admin panel, no need to edit the source code

• Version 1.6.1 [Release 20/09/2008]:
  • bug fixed
    • title attribute was only searched right of href attribute, now also respects title attributes left of href attribute
• Version 1.6 [Release 29/09/2008]:
  • feature added
    • use existing title attributes for summary display, can be selected optionally in addition to normal URL/text behavour
  • redesign of settings page

• Version 1.5.5 [Release 01/05/2008]:
  • bug corrected
    • corrected upgrade process from older version when settings have been added to the plugin options
  • feature added:
    • truncate link text if their length exceeds a specified limit
• Version 1.5.4 [Release 22/04/2008]:
  • bug fixed
    • fixed readme.txt for compatibility with WordPress 2.5.1
• Version 1.5.3 [Release 05/04/2008]:
  • bug corrected
    • when using thetemplate tag get_link_summary() now filters configured for the_content get applied, this is importent e.g. when using the plugin Markdown which stores only simplified markup code in the database. Thanks to Natalie Jost for poiting out the problem.
• Version 1.5.2 [Release 10/03/2008]:
  • Bugs corrected
    • the configuration option for lnsum_onlyloopshow (omit changing the content via filter, only allow the template tag) (ticket #763)
    • new configuration options included in later versions than the one originally installed now get predefined with sane defaults
• Version 1.5.1 [Release 28/02/2008]:
  • Bugs corrected:
    • if called via filter the result of manipulating $content is returned instead of directly echoed out, thanks to P. Hofmann of contaxe.com for pointing this out
  • further code cleanup for Wordpress coding guideline compliance
• Version 1.5 [Release 11/02/2008]:
  • New Features:
    • Theoutput of the plugin is now completely configurable through the admin interface, there needn’t be made changes to the plugin code to reflect special desing needs in you blog.
  • Code cleanup for easier maintenance
• Version 1.4.2 [Release 09/11/2007]:
  • New Features:
    • option to show or hide link summary in RSS feeds
    • searches by regular expressions can now be made case sensitive or case insesitive (admin option)
    • the summary can now be called directly from the template files (“the loop”) to respect special design desires
• Version 1.4.1 [Release 08/11/2007]:
  • design stylable through CSS, corrected wrong HTML tag
  • New Feature: option to show the URL or the link text in summary
• Version 1.4 [Release 27/08/2007]: Thomas Ohms made the plugin aware of url rewriting. Also access to the userdefined custom fields was optimized.
• Version 1.3.1 [Release 14/08/2007]: bug on admin page: button “Update Options” is not shown
• Version 1.3 [Release 04/08/2007]:
  • Check for empty regex, fixes an error reported by Andrew Perry
  • New default regex: ^#.* omits all local anchors
  • New feature: If a link occurs multiple times in the same posting, it is only included once in the summary (idea: Andrew Perry)
  • Modified installation routine: On activation the plugin checks if all important settings are made, so that it can run out of the box without needing to change anything on the admin panel to use it
• Version 1.2.1 [Release: 02/08/2007]:You now can choose between POSIX and PCRE for the regex engine
• Version 1.2 [Release: 02/08/2007]:The output of the summary can now be disabled for the index page
• Version 1.1 [Release: 01/08/2007]:
  • You now can define the default policy for displaying the link summary (enabled/disabled).
  • For each post you now can define through custom fields, if the post should show a link summary independent of the global setting. Add a custom field named “lnsum_show” and change the value to “0″ to disable, any other value to enable.
• Version 1.0 [Release: 31/07/2007]: initial release

Feature Requests / Bug reports

For feature requests and bug reports use the bug tracker at https://www.team-erdle.de/bugzilla. This is the only way to report bugs! Don’t use the comments!

Support

You can get support for Link Summarizer by emailing to helpdesk@team-erdle.de.

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