Well, apparently some people a) don’t appreciate free publicity, or b) have a real sense of humor and send lawyers without a real website in their stead to demand the take-down of something as harmless as a WordPress plugin that I had deemed was in the category of fair use. So, sorry, the Deep Thoughts plugin is no longer available.
Color me stupid, but I had no idea Jack Handy was even a real guy.
Whatever, it was fun while it lasted but here you will no longer find the plugin, the thoughts, or anything else. Anything within my power has been removed. To those with the stick up their arses:
First, if you’re going to “serve” someone with something, please get their name right. Sheesh.
Second, if I read right, you assume I’ve made money from this. I have not.
Third, a simple “please remove it” would suffice. The legal mumbo-jumbo is just unnecessary and quite ridiculous. I thought you guys were supposed to, you know, postal mail or fax stuff on company headers for it to be legal anyway?
The text and plugin has been removed from my site and anything that’s in my control. I have no control over what others do, you’ll have to talk to them if you still have any issue.
Actually, I’m surprised it took them this long, and I find it actually kind of funny that it came even months after my big PageRank drop.
Amazing how you can quickly go from being a fan to a used-to-be-fan, huh?
Just for the heck of it, I’ve turned the Deep Thoughts…
HI!
No headache today?? Hope that’s true ;) I’m just updating my “thank-you-list” to those who blogmark me at BE - and here you were… Have a happy day! *hug*
Hah hah, that’s funny how you just decided to do it. :D Cool deep thought of the day by the way. :P Hopefully you work on the more complicated thing, and come out successful. :)
Cool. Crazy.
<?php$quotes = 'http://spoken-for.org/scripts/thoughts.txt';
$lines = explode("", implode('', file($quotes)));
echo(trim($lines[floor(time()/86400) % count($lines)]));
?>
/me whistles innocently.
What did you want to work on, anyway?
Owen - what’s that do? I’m insecure again? :lol:
And if I tell you, you’ll just do it. Lol oh well, here goes, I’ll never figure it out anyway…
I want to do something like what is on my about us page (mouse over the images of the dog and hermit crabs) only I want it to work like the already existing acronym plugin by…??? Anyway, so if I were to type “Rimshot” then it would automatically show his photo when you mouse over it. Just a little one, 100×100px or less or something.
No, you’re secure. The code I wrote will fetch the Deep Thoughts text file from your site and display today’s (although maybe not the exact same day that yours does, but fresh every day) thought. You could use it for any file - just change the URL. You can use it from any site that supports fopen URL wrappers (allowing functions to use URLs as if they were files). The text file can also have any number of things in it, and it’ll rotate through a fresh one every day until it runs out, then it’ll start over.
I should note that one line of what I wrote above was mangled by the WP commenting script and should read:
...explode("<br><br>",...I’ll start thinking about the other thing after the static page issue works itself out.
Oh I see! :-) And, yeah, it’s not today’s, hehe. I ‘wrote’ that thing a long time ago, it was the first thing I did besides echo “hello world”;
“I’ll start thinking about the other thing after the static page issue works itself out.”
Haha I knew it! :P
I love that little image tooltip thing, I use it on my “portfolio” on holifieldweb, it’s what I had in mind for it and I went searching for it and found it on Dynamic Drive. It takes a whole crate of code to do that one. :lol:
Where is this popup thingie of which you speak? I’m mousing over everything and nothing is popping up anywhere.
Arrgh, I might try your plugin. This new Wordpress seems so much more complicated — I mean, I know what I’m doing, but the whole “Theme” thing is really throwing me off, and I tried installing a plugin but let’s just say it didn’t go too well. Maybe I’ll try yours for practice if it’s so easy. :)
You might get a little better performance out of the plugin if you change all but the first “if” to “elseif”. That way when it hits the number it doesn’t keep testing through 300+ others (that is unless it’s day #300+ of course ;-) )
Great plugin but it doesn’t validate properly. You need to add li tags around the bold tags because you’re not allowed to use bold tags inside a top-level unordered list. They have to be in a list item. It should look like this:
echo “Deep Thought of the day“;
then the quote stuff…
followed by (you had them backwards)
hopefully wp doesn’t mangle it up.
hmmm… my copy doesn’t have bold tags at all. :lol: Guess I’ll have to open up the zip and see why it’s different.
Later… Okay updated it with my copy which just has ul li thought /li /ul, basically. No bold tags. :)
Thanks!
Pristine, baby! I’m all over it :) I changed the caps to italics, though. Caps drivey me crazy.
i’m new to this whole blog thing. I installed your plug-in, activated it in my admin, then i get confused.
Where am i supposed to put that line of code to make it work? in the sidebar.php? if so, where do i put it in the code to make it show up nice and neat like everything else?
Sorry to be a dummy :) I just know nothing about this stuff. Maybe if I can clear it up now, it will be easier for me to do stuff in the future :)
Hi, Mat G…
Yes, put the code in the sidebar.php. However, I can’t tell you exactly where without seeing your sidebar code. But just try to separate everything out in your head as to what is what and try not to put it in between important code like in the middle of a block of code for archives or something. Once you put it in, it should appear pretty formatted, though some minor tweaking on your part might be needed depending on your site’s CSS.
If you are still having trouble, email me your sidebar.php and I’ll try and give you a better idea of a good place to put it…
Hi,
I just wanted to say that you made such a fun plugin! I have been having my issues with installing plugins, but after reading your reply to another in the comments here I finally got it*light bulb pops on*
So anyway… glad your in the world… bringing us peasents silliness and great humor via a nice tool. *cheeky grin*
Emmy
Glad you like it, Emmy, unfortunately though I’m not able to comment at your site right now. :(
I love the Deep Thoughts. I’d like to update the plugin with more options and more thoughts. Just need to find the time to do it all now… :)
I think I hit the comma instead of the period in my URl LOL Whoops! Mommy brain has hit yet again! I think I fixed it for this reply…
Emmy
Great Plugin..gonna try it out now!
Bloody great plugin! Just the sort of weird stuff I love. However, the version I downloaded has:
echo “Today’s Deep Tho’t”;
…as the heading. Just wanted to let you know.
Thank you for the plugin!
Thanks Lisa :)
That was a whoopsie on my part - I must have accidentally packaged up my old personal copy in which the word \”thought\” was too long for my sidebar at the time. :o
Hello Valerie,
I took the liberty of creating a Wordpress Widget around your Deep Thoughts plugin. Feel free to grab it from the below URL :
http://www.dkhc.nl/utils/widgetized-deepthoughts.zip
Bye!
Hey Mies -
I’ve downloaded it and whenever I get around to trying out the widgets on this site, I’ll give it a go!
Uber cool, thanks!! :)
great plugin! how can I add my own quotes?
Hi erratik –
This plugin isn’t really setup for adding more quotes since there’s a limited number so that there is one to correspond to each day. You can change any of the quotes if you want in the code, however. But as far as adding to it, you could try the Utter Quotes plugin and the last I saw of that one, it allows for adding individual quotes as well as importing batches.
Hey thanks for the work on the deep thoughts. I just noticed a tiny error in the tags, line 381. Should be “echo “”; not a big deal, but my dang markup validator keeps yappin at me! Thanks again. Deep thoughts have been an integral part of my development as a man.
Heh, I feel dumb. Actually that line should read
echo "</li></ul>";because the beginning of the script opens with a title in<h2>’s and then opens the ul then li then it outputs a Deep Thought and then should close the line and then the list. Sheesh. I also finally went through and started changing single quotes for actual quotations within the Thoughts to double quote marks. When doing this, I started seeing duplicate Thoughts. As of now, I have found ten duplicates! Eek! So I replaced them all with a “new” thought. I made sure to search to make sure there were no new duplicates!Anyway, you can now download version 2. Haha. There might still be duplicates, but I have to run for now and can’t do anymore looking. If anyone notices any, let me know!
Ha. That’s what I typed it should say, it just looked funny after I posted it and the tags dissapeared from my post. I’ll be downloading the new list of thoughts, not like a scared rabbit, but like an angry one, running from on fight….
Thaks.
I still use this plugin, exchanged all the daily quotes for (semi-) Dutch ones though, and it’s doing fine! Thanx so far!
Hey, Great job on the script.
I replaced day=$date(”z”); with day=$rand(”0, 365);
It adds a randomness to an awesome program.
Thanks for it.
Oh, if you do decide to keep using the plugin or distributing it, please remove my name and/or link, if it exists. Thank you very much!
There is a guy on the web who writes in the style of Jack Handy and is hilarious. He goes by “Savo the Dyslexic Dog” and writes on neighborhood.feedthevillage.com.