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| <?php | |
| /* | |
| Plugin Name: Plugin Title Truncator | |
| Plugin URI: https://yourwebsite.com/plugin-title-truncator | |
| Description: This plugin truncates plugin titles in the WordPress plugin directory to a maximum of 4 words. | |
| Version: 1.0 | |
| Author: Your Name | |
| Author URI: https://yourwebsite.com | |
| License: GPLv2 or later | |
| Text Domain: plugin-title-truncator | |
| */ | |
| /* | |
| Prompt: Write a WordPress plugin that manipulates the results of the WordPress plugin directory that truncates the title of the plugin returned and limits it to 4 words | |
| To create a WordPress plugin that manipulates the results of the WordPress plugin directory by truncating the titles of the returned plugins and limiting them to 4 words, follow these steps: | |
| Create a new folder in your WordPress installation's wp-content/plugins directory. Name the folder something unique like plugin-title-truncator. | |
| In the newly created folder, create a new PHP file named plugin-title-truncator.php. This will be the main plugin file. | |
| Open the plugin-title-truncator.php file in a text editor and add the following code to define your plugin | |
| Add the following function to plugin-title-truncator.php. This function truncates a given string to a specified number of words: | |
| */ | |
| function truncate_title_to_n_words($title, $n_words = 4) { | |
| $words = explode(' ', $title); | |
| $truncated_title = implode(' ', array_slice($words, 0, $n_words)); | |
| if (count($words) > $n_words) { | |
| $truncated_title .= '...'; | |
| } | |
| return $truncated_title; | |
| } | |
| /* | |
| To modify the plugin titles in the WordPress plugin directory, we will use the plugin_row_meta filter. Add the following code to the plugin-title-truncator.php file: | |
| */ | |
| function truncate_plugin_titles_in_directory($plugin_meta, $plugin_file, $plugin_data, $status) { | |
| $new_title = truncate_title_to_n_words($plugin_data['Name']); | |
| if ($new_title !== $plugin_data['Name']) { | |
| $plugin_meta[0] = preg_replace( | |
| '/' . preg_quote($plugin_data['Name'], '/') . '/', | |
| $new_title, | |
| $plugin_meta[0] | |
| ); | |
| } | |
| return $plugin_meta; | |
| } | |
| add_filter('plugin_row_meta', 'truncate_plugin_titles_in_directory', 10, 4); | |
| /* | |
| Save the changes to the plugin-title-truncator.php file. | |
| Go to the WordPress admin dashboard, navigate to the Plugins page, and activate the "Plugin Title Truncator" plugin. | |
| Now, when you browse the WordPress plugin directory, the plugin titles should be truncated to a maximum of 4 words. | |
| */ |
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