Easy Textbox Link WordPress Plugin

Posted by Steve Hanna on July 12th, 2007 filed in Technical, WordPress Plugin

Description
This small WordPress plugin inserts a text box at the end of every post containing the title of the post and a permanent link to the entry. When a user mouses over the text box or clicks the text box the contents are highlighted in their entirety; this makes copying and pasting to a web page, blog or instant message incredibly easy. Adding this functionality encourages bloggers of all levels to link to your posts and as a result will increase overall search engine rankings as more and more people link to your blog.

Installation
Unzip the zip file into your WordPress plugins directory, this is usually wp-content/plugins. Active the plugin from your Plugin menu by clicking Activate. Open easytextboxlink.php and copy the style sheet code, merely copy and paste this code into your main CSS file. This can be found by going to Presentations->Theme Editor->Style Sheet. After you have pasted the changes, click update file and your posts should now have text boxes at the bottom!

Example
To see an example, scroll to the bottom of this post!

Download
Download the Easy Textbox Link WordPress Plugin.

Credits
Originally, I stumbled upon the Link to Me Textbox WordPress plugin which appended a text box to the end of a post. The problem with this plugin is that it lacked WordPress filters and it didn’t select the text box on click. Due to the fact that it lacked filters, files had to be manually edited to insert functionality and even then the location of the text box was in the singlepost.php, the page shown when someone links to a permanent link. I felt that this defeated the purpose and the text box should appear whenever any post is shown.