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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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
interesting !
Looks awesome! I do welcome the tabs placed on the top!
What would help in SEO would be a source code converter that changes ASCII to HTML in the wordpress source code. It is my understanding that a plugin such as this would greatly assist in page ranking within a very short time.
Sounds spooky. Care to elaborate on this one?
I make my own ASCII art and would love to display it in my blog without saving it all to an image file first. I am looking at your plugin but not getting something right cause it isn’t working. Will keep trying and see if I figure it out. Thanks for working on this idea.
It’s very nice & cool