If you can cast your memory back to 2001 you will remember the controversy surrounding Microsoft’s Smart Tags and the subsequent discussion over the adding of extra links your site without your knowledge. Well this is essentially what Google’s AutoLink does.

In response to this, a nice piece of javascript has emerged that strips any of these extra tags from the page, leaving your site in its unedited, de-googlefied form. So for all of you Wordpressors out there, here is my official De-Google Wordpress Plugin.

de-google-0.4.zip
de-google-0.4.tar.gz

Installation instructions are as simple as they can get:

1. Upload to /wp-content/plugins/
2. Activate the plugin
3. View your page source and ensure the javascript is being added to the head
4. Sit back, smile, and marvel at the simple scripty goodness (1)

I have made a few changes to the original javascript to ensure XHTML 1.1 compliance among other things, but if you discover any errors, bugs or incompatibilities please leave details.

In my pursuit of the “Second F” – Fluidity, I have created a small wordpress plugin to allow easy referencing of ones source material. (Think bibliographies people!)

This plugin was created out of personal necessity, rather than as a conscious contribution to the wordpress community, and as a result it is still a little rough around the edges. However, I thought a few people might find some need for such a function, so here it is.

references-0.2.zip
references-0.2.tar.gz
references-0.3.zip
references-0.3.tar.gz
references-0.3.1.zip
references-0.3.1.tar.gz

Full installation instructions are available in the README.txt within the above packages. A changelog is also included in this file, so you can see what fixes/improvements have been made in subsequent upgrades.

Basically, what this plugin allows you to do is create a list of your “source material” for a particular post, much like a quazi-footnotes type system. In keeping with the tradition of what I consider the better portion of the internet, referencing of your source material not only lends an essence of validity and legitimacy to what you are saying, but also preserves what we all came to know and love about the internet: links!

I am not talking about links in their current form in which they are used and abused, I mean genuinely relevent and related links that were referenced or referred to in a given article, or are at least related to the topic at hand. Remember those?

An example of the references plugin in use can be seen below, as well as on the main page of this site.