WordPress Plugin - Italicize FIRST, dangit!

[RyanCesiel]

I am changing our website to Wordpress and I like the thought of this plugin.

One question... will it italicize lowercase spelling of "first or italicize "First"? Basically, will it italicize the word "first" when it's not used as the acronym and it's not in all caps?

Thanks for making this! It was a great idea!

[jdh]

Ryan,

The plugin will only replace FIRST in all caps or F.I.R.S.T. (also in all caps). Any instance of "first" or "First" will be ignored.

-JD

[jdh]

Hello again,

Just thought I would pop in and post that I released 1.1 of this plugin... it applies the filter to the_excerpt too.

New download link: http://cl.ly/47GS

Old one is now obsolete.

-JD

[Boydean]

Is it possible to put this on Github, or Google Code so people in the community can add more FIRST centric things as needed in Wordpress?

I'm not sure what kind of things are needed, but I'm sure someone can think of somethings.

[Chris is me]

Italics isn't used for the name of organizations. Who italicizes Coca Cola or McDonalds?

[jdh]

FIRST actually italicizes it on their own website, and somewhere there are guidelines on doing so as well

(look at this page: http://www.usfirst.org/aboutus/content.aspx?id=880 -- lots of italicization)

Edit: Top of page 18: http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles..._MAR262010.pdf

[jdh]

@Boydean
Sorry, missed your post.

I would be happy to get this up on Google Code sometime soon. Maybe we could call it the "FIRST Essentials Pack for WordPress" or whatever... just some cool features geared towards FIRST team websites.

Maybe even throw an options page to disable features they don't want activated... sounds like a fun little project.

-JD

[Boydean]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Italics isn't used for the name of organizations. Who italicizes Coca Cola or McDonalds?

http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles/Robotics_Programs/FRC/FRC_Communications_Resource_Center/Branding_and_Logos/UseofUSFIRSTandLEGOGroupTrademarksandCopyrightedMa terials_FINAL.pdf

See section III part 5.

[RyanCesiel]

I am having some issues with images that have FIRST in the alt part of an img tag. Anyway to disable it from trying to "attack" images, haha?

[RyanCesiel]

Bump... How can I prevent the plugin from trying to add <em></em> tags within the alt portion of an img tag?

[Carl C]

I just installed this. Thanks for making it!

[Mr. Lim]

Great plugin!

I have one suggestion:

+ add logic to check to see if "FIRST" is inside a <tag> - don't italicize in that case