{"id":102,"date":"2008-03-27T00:56:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T04:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/blogger\/wp_texticon\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T08:47:53","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T12:47:53","slug":"wp_texticon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/blogger\/wp_texticon\/","title":{"rendered":"WP_Texticon"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/res\/images\/matrix_texticon.png\" alt=\"Matrix-like Texticon example\" class=\"right\"\/>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/res\/images\/letters_texticon.png\" alt=\"Letters Texticon example\" class=\"right\"\/>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/res\/images\/dna_texticon.png\" alt=\"DNA-like Texticon example\" class=\"right\"\/>\r\n<p>I realize I&#8217;m getting in the dead horse beating side of automatic avatar creation plugins but <a href=\"http:\/\/binaries.ru\/\">brainsolid <\/a> asked for a plugin to generate binary avatars that looked like the text from the matrix and I figured it wouldn&#8217;t take too long to change <a href=\"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/blogger\/wp_identicon\/\">WP_Identicon<\/a> over to it. Of course, then other things came up and I managed to take quite a while to get around to it but it&#8217;s done now so here is WP_Texticon. It generates avatars with an array of colored characters. It&#8217;s sort of hard to describe so it&#8217;s probably easier to just show a few examples.<\/p>\r\n<p>So I guess it&#8217;s mostly for anyone that likes that text in the Matrix, writing about code (with 0 and 1&#8217;s or 0-9 and A-E if you want to get fancy) or biologists (give every commenter their own DNA sequence with ATCG) or maybe general literature (with some random letters and a white background).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Dynamically generated avatars for each commenter<\/li>\r\n<li>Matrix\/DNA\/Binary-like text array icons<\/li>\r\n<li>Customizable character selection<\/li>\r\n<li>Gravatar support<\/li>\r\n<li>No theme edits necessary<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3>Current Version:<\/h3> <p><a href=\"\/res\/wp_texticon.zip\">WP_Texticon<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3>Installation instructions:<\/h3> <p>Unzip <code>wp_texticon.zip<\/code>. Upload wp_texticon.php <em>and<\/em> the <code>texticon<\/code> folder. Make sure the <code>texticon<\/code> folder is <a href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Changing_File_Permissions\">writable<\/a>. If your unzipping program creates a <code>wp_texticon<\/code> folder please only upload the contents (<code>wp_texticon.php<\/code> and the <code>texticon<\/code> folder). That should be it. Texticons should now appear next to your commenter&#8217;s names.<\/p> \r\n<p>You can adjust the background colors, the type and number of characters making up the Texticons and CSS in the Texticon Control Panel. If you&#8217;d like to change the fonts used for the characters, add or remove any Truetype Fonts (files that end in <code>.ttf<\/code>) you&#8217;d like to the <code>texticon\/fonts<\/code> folder. You can also clear the Texticon image cache in the control panel.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3>For Advanced Users:<\/h3>\r\n<p>For even more control, you can disable the automatic placement in the Texticon Control Panel and add an Texticon to any comment with <code>texticon_build($comment-&gt;comment_author_email, $comment-&gt;comment_author);<!--formatted--><\/code>. For example, find the <code>comments.php<\/code> of your current theme (it should be in the folder <code>wp-content\/themes\/[currentThemeName]\/<\/code>). Open it up and look for something similar to <code>foreach ($comments as $comment)<\/code>. Inside this loop there should be code that displays the comment author&#8217;s name or metadata like <code>&lt;p class=&quot;comment-author&quot;&gt;<!--formatted--><\/code> or <code>&lt;p class=&quot;comment-metadata&quot;&gt;<!--formatted--><\/code>. Just before all this enter:<br\/><code>&lt;?php if (function_exists(texticon_build)) echo texticon_build($comment-&gt;comment_author_email, $comment-&gt;comment_author); ?&gt;<!--formatted--><\/code><br\/>\r\nIf you would prefer to base the Texticons on the commentor&#8217;s IP address instead of the commentor&#8217;s email just replace <code>$comment-&gt;comment_author_email<!--formatted--><\/code> in the above with <code>$comment-&gt;comment_author_IP<!--formatted--><\/code>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3>Change Log:<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n <li><a href=\"\/res\/wp_texticon_v0.52.zip\">v0.52<\/a> 3-27-2007:\r\n  <ul>\r\n  <li>Fixed missing gravatar bug<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n <\/li>\r\n <li><a href=\"\/res\/wp_texticon_v0.51.zip\">v0.51<\/a> 3-27-2007:\r\n  <ul>\r\n  <li>First Public Version<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n <\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I realize I&#8217;m getting in the dead horse beating side of automatic avatar creation plugins but brainsolid asked for a plugin to generate binary avatars that looked like the text from the matrix and I figured it wouldn&#8217;t take too long to change WP_Identicon over to it. 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