Pirate Day! Arr
So talk like a pirate day is coming around soon and saw a brilliant method of converting web pages from boring English to cool Pirate talk. So having nothing better to do at the moment I knocked up a small plugin that will convert your blog posts to pirate talk on the 19th, to give your readers something nice to look at.
Plugin can be found at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pirate-talk/
Feel free to make it better.
Li-An 9:40 pm on September 17, 2009 Permalink |
Too bad it does not work in french…
BigAl 2:42 am on September 18, 2009 Permalink |
I was checking out your plug-in on wordpress, and while trying to check out the link to the yahoo thing it uses, the link leads to a 404 page. Is this going to still work or not?
John 9:57 am on September 18, 2009 Permalink |
Yer for some reason I forgot to escape the url correctly in the plugin readme.txt file. Heres the link
http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/09/ahoy_mates_conv.html
Admiral Piratepants 9:55 am on September 18, 2009 Permalink |
Yar! This be a piratetastic site, avast!
http://www.play-and-stay.co.uk/
Some translation (though not the whole site), games and general piratical shenanigans.
JArrrrrrr 6:33 pm on September 18, 2009 Permalink |
I installed the WordPress plugin and activated it, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Is there some trick I’m missing?
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Kelly Robinson 10:57 pm on September 18, 2009 Permalink |
I also activated this today to test it out and… nothing. Clearing my cache didn’t seem to help either.
Any hints?
John 11:48 pm on September 18, 2009 Permalink |
Should only work on the 19th. If you want it to work all year round just comment out the if statement.
BandonRandon 7:07 am on September 20, 2009 Permalink |
Thanks for this plugin, I modified to to support local timezones and to have an option to always be on. If you would like to modify the plug in or just see what I did I posted the code on http://pastebin.com/f5c75048e
Brooke.
Kelly Robinson 8:13 am on September 20, 2009 Permalink |
Thanks very much – worked like a charm. Arrrgh!