InScript
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InScript is an extensible scripting framework that provides the capability to insert and modify data without needing to modify any WordPress files.
At the simplest level, it is a generic pattern matcher – it searches for specific patterns, or tags, and replaces them with something else. However, instead of replacing these patterns with static text, you can replace them with variables, functions, and even PHP code.
Some of the features that InScript provides are:
The embedded scripts are very powerful, and allow you to do things like:
Because of the extensible nature of the plugin, you can add ‘scriptlets’ (mini-plugins) that provide extra features and yet use the same InScript framework.
Here are the current scriptlets:
Note: install scriptlets into the /wp-content/plugins/inscript/scripts directory.
No really, what does it do?
The best way to explain what InScript does is by providing examples. Note that these examples are provided 'live' by InScript.
Example 1 – Code highlighting
Often you want to highlight some code within a post. This creates several problems:
We can insert an InScript tag to do all this for us.
And this produces:
<?php
/**
* Outputs the RSS2 feed XML format. This file is a shortcut or compatibility
* layer for easily finding the RSS feed for the site. It loads WordPress using
* the wp-blog-header.php file and running do_feed() function.
*
* @see do_feed() Used to display the RSS2 feed
*
* This file is no longer used in WordPress and while it is not deprecated now.
* This file will most likely be deprecated or removed in a later version.
*
* The link for the rss2 feed is /index.php?feed=rss2 with permalinks off.
*
* @package WordPress
*/
if (empty($doing_rss)) {
$doing_rss = 1;
require(dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-blog-header.php');
}
do_feed();
?>
Example 2 – Blog title & description
Notice anything special about the title of this page? No? Okay, go and look at it again. Yes, that's right, it's different from the rest of the blog. This is because of these two custom fields:
inscript_option_blogname = SuburbanGiraffe
More fun
Of course, all of these are simplistic examples. Separate plugins already exist to achieve many of the functions described here. The point is that InScript gives you the ability to perform these functions anywhere in your blog, using just one syntax and one plugin. Additionally, you can customise the output exactly as you want, using a wider range of functions. You can cook up all sorts of madness – now, who’s for colour-highlighted code in their title?
Before I finish, here are some more live functions:
And here's the WordPress calendar function embedded into a post:
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.Got no time to fix it on my own.