Plugin a software extension technique

Plugins Thulefoth Comments
Font Awesome More-specific icons

Font Awesome More-specific icons

Plugins 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 platform, to do something that the larger stand-alone platform doesn’t. The Firefox browser, and the WordPress site-platform are enjoying high-profile plugin manias. … cont’d >

WordPress, website platform almost a quarter of the Web runs on it

WordPress Thulefoth Comments
Template Hierarchy diagram

Template Hierarchy diagram

WordPress 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 Content Management System programs. CMS is the term for software that runs a real website as opposed to a simple blog, which are regarded as scripts (don’t ‘manage’ much). … cont’d >

WordPress plugin repository

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The WordPress blog & website software hosts on their own site, a large collection of 3rd-party Plugin 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 a ‘marketplace’ in which folks can ‘shop’ for plugins.

Individuals, organizations and businesses all produce plugins, for a wide variety of reasons. With WordPress involved in the promotion & delivery of plugins, the ‘reasons’ for offering plugins can’t stray too far into territory that you don’t want to inadvertently find yourself in. To have WordPress ‘ride herd’ on the plugin scene, is A Pretty Good Thing.

Short Syntax Highlighter, WordPress plugin a WordPress plugin

Plugins Thulefoth Comments

“Short Syntax Highlighter” is a Plugin for the Plugin 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 interest?

Starting with somewhat secondary factors, first: this plugin appears to have been produced by the core WordPress shop itself. That makes it important & something to know about (for anybody interested in code-highlighting or plugins to do that, within WordPress), period.

My own interest or hope; the reason I am installing yet-another-highlighter, is that this one might provide relief from some of the drawbacks that arise with other Highlighters. That it will offer a simpler way of doing the job, which will then become standardized (because WordPress itself is behind it).

Here’s the standard blurb on it, from the official WordPress Plugin Repository:

Description

Short Syntax Highlighter allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without losing it’s formatting or making any manual changes. Without adding any JS or css file in your theme. This plugin will help you to highlight the code systax. WordPressapi.com

Tested upto 3.0.3

Functionality

This plugin will help you to highlight the code systax.

FYI

Faq

  1. How can I use the this plugin for syntax highlighing Ans: Just put [php]code here[/php] or [css]code here[/css]. Now we supporting only php and css language
  2. Can I change the code color Ans: Yes, you can change the color. using following format . just specify the color value [php wpapi=”php” id=”123″ color=”red”]

Other notes

Help

For help and support please contact us at contact [at] wordpressapi.com

Benchmark Rock, Elwha River Trail, Olympic Nat’l Park an early treat on Elwha River Trail

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Benchmark Rock and Long Creek view

Benchmark Rock and Long Creek view

Benchmark Rock is an informal spot about 3/4 mile up the Elwha River Trail from its beginning at the Whiskey Bend Trailhead. The author Robert L. Wood, in his book Olympic Mountains Trail Guide, refers to the location as Benchmark Rock, in his Elwha Trail section (pg 40). (Note that historically & culturally, the name of this trail is sometimes seen as Elwha Trail, and other times as Elwha River Trail. The Park uses the later name today.) … cont’d >

Elwha River Road – not to the Elwha always broken; can't fix

Elwha River / Olympic Peninsula Thulefoth Comments

The Olympic Hot Springs Road is sometimes seen referred to as the Elwha River Road. Locals are not affected … even though they also practice & perpetuate the ambiguous usage.

The road that visitors to the Olympic National Park and the facilities & recreation along the Elwha River will be looking for is the Olympic Hot Springs Road.  Not the Elwha River Road.

There are roads outside the Park, near and around the lower, downstream reaches of the river, one or more of which at various time have been called Elwha River Road … but the one going into the Park has been the Olympic Hot Springs Road, since early in the 20th C.

Verily, there is also the Olympic Hot Springs Abandoned Trail, which the road superceded with the same destination, and inherited the name.

Olympic Hot Springs Road, Elwha River, Olympic Nat’l Park the Elwha River in Olympic National Park

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Olympic Hotsprings Road - Highway 101 junction

Olympic Hotsprings Road – Highway 101 junction

Olympic Hot Springs Road leaves US Highway 101 at its bridge over the Elwha River and goes up the valley (south), soon entering the Olympic National Park. The junction is about 10 minutes west of Port Angeles. This is the road that leads to popular recreational areas on & around the river, to the Elwha Ranger Station, and provides access to various river-valley campgrounds and backcountry trails. It also gives access to the Glines Canyon Dam and Lake Mills, both slated for elimination in the high-profile Elwha River Restoration Project (both now gone, end of 2014). … cont’d >

Goblins Gate, Elwha River, Olympic Nat’l Park

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Map-fragment closeup of Goblins Gate

Map-fragment closeup of Goblins Gate

[G]oblins Gate is a dramatic entrance to the Rica Canyon of the Elwha River in Olympic National Park.  It’s at the lower end of Geyser Valley and the Humes Ranch area.  The river is suddenly pinched into a narrow canyon between vertical rock walls (like a gate).  It is an easy day-hike to Goblins Gate, via Rica Canyon Trail.

A broad, low ridge of resistant rock, a few hundred feet high, runs athwart the main Elwha River channel, at the bottom end of Geyser Valley, and the river cuts through it. … cont’d >

Lake Aldwell, Elwha River, Olympic Peninsula, NW USA

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Log boom dam guard Lake Aldwell

Log boom dam guard Lake Aldwell

Lake Aldwell is the impoundment of the Elwha River above the lower of the two dams on it (both slated for removal in 2011).

The main local two-lane road through this region, Highway 101, makes a moderately steep descent from the east, to the bridge crossing the Elwha a short ways above the upper end of the lake. This slope forms the eastern side of the lake, and at the top before the road descends, is a large paved pullout & viewpoint. There are views of Lake Aldwell, and excellent views further up the Elwha River valley and surrounding & interior (National Park) mountains. … cont’d >