A word replacement plugin for WordPress

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Text Obfuscator (formally known as Obfuscator) is a simple plugin for replacing words and phrases in your posts’ content with alternative words and phrases. Initially designed for protecting the innocent by removing names from personal blog posts, it can also be used to correct common spelling errors or automatically expand abbreviations. The plugin operates on output preserving the content in the database as entered in the post.

Versions up to and including 1.0 (0.1 and 0.2 released under the title Obfuscator) are very basic string replacement systems. Versions 1.1 and 1.2 are a little more advanced. [read more]

Posted on Tuesday 22nd February, 2011 at 12:06 am in Text Obfuscator.
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Version 0.6 released

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I’ve just made public the release of version 0.6 of the Syndicate Out WordPress plugin.  The latest version can be downloaded from the plugin repository.

This release adds a couple of the outstanding things on the long-term roadmap (custom field syndication, making the plugin clear up after itself when uninstalled via the WordPress uninstall system), as well as bringing with it a slew of bug fixes.  The full changelist follows:

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Posted on Saturday 13th February, 2010 at 2:49 am in Syndicate Out.
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Release 0.6 todo list

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The following is a basic todo list / wishlist for release 0.6.  I’ll add to this as things crop up, and cross things off this as I implement them in my development version.  It’s possible some things listed here will end up being released prior to 0.6 if there’s the need for a futher 0.5.x release.

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Posted on Thursday 28th January, 2010 at 5:12 pm in Syndicate Out.
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Version 0.5.1 released

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I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of Syndicate Out 0.5.1.  Due to a bug in the settings page it is not advised that users upgrade to version 0.5, 0.5.1 addresses this bug!

0.5 / 0.5.1 introduces a major new feature as well as addressing a number of bugs highlighted by users:

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Posted on Monday 25th January, 2010 at 4:19 pm in Syndicate Out.
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Syndicate Out 0.4

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Syndicate Out 0.4 is now available to download from the WordPress plugin directory.  If installing this version as an upgrade some changes to the way the plugin settings are handled should automatically be made.  If you find that your settings seem to have disapeared try de-activating and re-activating the plugin.  This should upgrade the storage format.

This release takes the plugin one step closer to a full version release with the addition of three major features, two of which are the result of user feedback, and the other was always on the cards (although this was requested too!):

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Posted on Tuesday 15th December, 2009 at 2:52 am in Syndicate Out.
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Syndicate Out 0.3.2

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Syndicate Out 0.3.2 is now available for download from the WordPress plugin directory.

This version addresses two bugs brought up by users (thanks go to randy, Adam, and Paul Bain) regarding the admin panel (sometimes) not apearing in the settings menu, and a broken include in the 0.3.1 release.  It’s also been tested against WP version 2.8.3.

The plugin file name has changed with this version, so users might find the plugin gets de-activated by WP’s plugin manager when it’s updated.  You simply need to re-activate the plugin to get it up running again.

As always, thanks for everyone’s feedback and support and please don’t hesitate to get in contact if you find any issues or have any suggestions on this release.

Posted on Tuesday 11th August, 2009 at 12:04 pm in Syndicate Out.
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Syndicate Out 0.3.1

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I have just released version 0.3.1 of the Syndicate Out WordPress plugin.

This minor revision fixes a bug encountered when editing the source blog entry — no longer will the same (effecivly a duplicate, albeit with the edits) entry be posted on the remote blog.  As this is a bugfix release it’s only got a minor revision number change, although I strongly advise all users to upgrade to this version as it’ll save you a whole load of headaches in the future!

Posted on Thursday 30th July, 2009 at 12:12 pm in Syndicate Out.
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Syndicate Out 0.3 released

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Hot on the heels of the first public release of Syndicate Out (0.2), version 0.3 is now available for download.

This release deals with a bug including the IXR library file, as well as adding keyword handling — they are now passed on to the remote server (as you’d kind of expect, really!).  I’ve also added a step to the install instructions relating to switching on XML-RPC posting on the remote blog.

You can download the latest release from the WordPress Plugin Directory.

Posted on Tuesday 21st July, 2009 at 11:21 am in Syndicate Out.
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First public release of Syndicate Out

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The first public release — version 0.2 — of Syndicate Out has been made available.  It is downloadable from the WordPress.org plugin directory.

I’d love to hear feedback and suggestions either here or over on the project page.

Posted on Monday 20th July, 2009 at 12:45 pm in Syndicate Out.
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Introducing Syndicate Out

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Here at Fubra we run a number of blogs — some personal, some corporate, some based on a specific site — the majority of which we’re in the process of migrating over to blogs.fubra.com.  In addition to this quite a few of our staff members maintain their own external blogs.  It’s fair to say that Fubra loves blogs.

With all this going on it can sometimes become a bit of a nightmare keeping tabs on what’s been posted where, not to mention managing posts which could quite legitimatly be posted across a number of our blogs.  To help us ease this process we’ve deloped a simple WordPress plug in  which syndicates the contents of our individual blogs into whatever other blog we want using WordPress’ built in XMLRPC functionality.  This plugin is called ‘Syndicate Out’.

The plugin will soon be available to download via the WordPress Plugin Directory, and I’ll keep this blog updated with the latest developments.

Posted on Friday 17th July, 2009 at 1:06 pm in Syndicate Out.
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