lugins are a fundamental and fairly obvious software-engineering idea (going way back), which though formerly ‘just’ a utilitarian tool, have become a popular-computing & Internet sensation. They’re all the rage now. A plugin is a relatively small & limited-scope piece of special-purpose software that can be optionally added to another more general-purpose & full-featured software …
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WordPress, website platform almost a quarter of the Web runs on it
ordPress is a web program, software that runs a blog or website. Originally a nice, simple little blog-script, it encountered success early, and was soon no longer simple, or little. Still, it retains a degree of restrain in it’s design & implementation that establish & maintain a watershed of sorts between it & other programs. …
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WordPress plugin repository
pluginn repositor blog & website software hosts on their own site, a large collection of 3rd-party titles for the program. As of late 2010, there are over 15,000. They call the page for this repository, WordPress Extend-Plugins. WordPress does some vetting of these plugins; provides a standardized format for organizing information about plugins, and creates …
Short Syntax Highlighter, WordPress plugin a WordPress plugin
hort Syntax Highlighter is a for the website software. It is intended for nicely-displaying examples of computer-code, within your posts & pages. There are more than a few such ‘highlighters’ around (they typically color the different ‘syntax’ elements differently, thus ‘highlighting’ them). Why do we see ‘yet another one’? How might this one be of …
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