Introduction

In a nutshell: EasyPG is a Wordpress plugin adding shortcuts to create correct markup for Postgenomic parsing.

In detail…

More and more, I’ve been using Postgenomic to track what’s going on in the world of science blogging. It’s a great website to do that, and it also keeps a bit of statistics about science blogs. For example, blogSci’s stats page is here.

Postgenomic is very automated, and to help it along in keep tabs on things, there is a set of HTML markup features it looks for. I’m lazy, and typing the extra markup every time is no fun. Also, the markup is easy to mess up because sometimes it uses rel and sometimes it uses rev. So I created this plugin, EasyPG, to do the heavy lifting for me. It adds support to BBCode-like tags, one for conferences and one for paper reviews. This way, you don’t mess up the markup.

Syntax

Syntax is straightforward. For conferences:

[ conference = http://conference-website.com/]Conference title[/ conference]

For paper reviews:

[ review = http://publisher.com/paper/]paper title[/ review]

The Conference Title and Paper Title text are what will be come the anchor text of the link. Note that I added spaces in the tags for legibility. When you use it, you should use [conference] and [/conference] and [review] and [/review], i.e., without spaces.

Known Issues/Problems

None at the moment, but to make sure everything goes smoothly, you should disable other text-parsing plugins. I can’t test EasyPG with all other plugins, so I cannot guarantee that it will not (badly) interact with other plugins. Please let me know if you come across problems and I’ll fix them!

Help and Feedback

Just comment below or contact me.

Download and Notes

It’s here.

• Current version: 1.0
• Release date: 7 July 2007