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Introducing Snips, my first WordPress plugin!

Running a WordPress blog? Tired of having to switch to “code view” to copy/paste nasty HTML code from sites such as YouTube or DailyMotion? Or frequently having to write the same things?

Then Snips is for you!

What for?

• To avoid switching to “code view” to copy/paste nasty HTML code from sites like YouTube and DailyMotion (those that provide an “embed” option, but not only!)
• To be able to change all of these codes at once, from once place
• And much more!

How?

1. Simply get the plugin archive (hosted at Google Code)
   
2. Extract to your plugins directory
3. Use! Here are some examples…
   • To insert a YouTube video (in “visual” mode), simply write [yt:F4WKonOUxiI], nothing more!
   • A DailyMotion one, write [dm:x3cmel]
   • Virtually anything would work…
4. Extend (if you want to!)
   1. Let’s say you want to manage Virb embedded videos
   2. Go to a Virb video page
   3. Copy the nasty “embed” code into a file called (for example) virb-model.txt and store it into your snips folder.
   4. Locate what might be different from one video to an other (in that example, this would be 2227/4Mi8niIFNu8G6iDALVOwzKgGayTDZJK9)
   5. Replace it with a simple #1# and save your file (watch out, it appears twice!). Here we are, you just created a new Snip! To embed a Virb video in a post, just write [virb:(the unique identifier)].
   6. Now suppose you would like to be able to change the size of the embedded object…
      1. Replace 564px with #2# and 380px with #3#. You’ve now defined 2 new variables, you can now add a Virb video and specify its dimensions like this: [virb:(the unique identifier),100%,400].
      2. What if you want default values for these variables?
         1. Add a new line with only 3 dashes (-) a the end of your text file
         2. Under this line add a new one with 2=100% and another with 3=400. You just specified the default values for parameters 2 and 3!
   7. The virb-model.txt file should now look like this:
      <object height=”#3#” width=”#2#” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” data=”http://www.virb.com/external/video/#1#”></p> <param name=”movie” value=”http://www.virb.com/external/video/#1#”></param> <param name=”quality” value=”best”></param> <param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”></param> <param name=”salign” value=”tl”></param> </object>
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2=100%
3=400

How much?

• Free, dude!
• OpenSource, even…

If you use it and get into trouble, slap me ; drop a comment.