A plugin for WordPress that inserts selected ASCII art into your site’s source code at any specified template/action hook. It doesn’t affect your site’s speed, SEO, or anything else – but provides a fun surprise for anybody inspecting your source code.

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|     Source Code ASCII Art is a free plugin for WordPress that inserts      |
|    ASCII art in HTML comments into your source code. Select from dozens    |
|       of artworks, or insert your own. A quirky surprise for anybody       |
|               inspecting your HTML code! Original blog post »              |
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|               Current Version: 0.1   |   Updated: 17-Jan-2011              |
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Quick note on usage:

This plugin programmatically inserts an ASCII artwork (choose from pre-loaded, or insert your own!) at any specified ‘action hook’ in your WordPress theme – or alternatively, you can simply write <?php do_action('source_code_ascii_art');?> anywhere in your template files.

The next version will feature a load more ASCII artworks, along with the option to select a few of them and rotate at random. I’m also planning to release this for several other CMSs – most likely MODx, but also maybe Drupleh, Juhmoola and co. – if people enjoy using it!

It’s translation-ready, so if any enthusiastic foreign programmers would like to take a crack at doing the Denaakk’e-language version of the plugin, please let me know and I’ll include the relevant files on the next release.

Finally – please consider spreading the word and getting more people using it! Cheers