TextImage

I have checked TextImage 0.2 into wordpress.org svn. It is available now at wordpress.org.

Warning: if you are using the old version, 0.2 breaks the old behavior of converting every post into an image. Now you have to enclose anything you want converted between <textimage> and </textimage> tags.

I think this is much more useful, but please let me know if you’d like the old behavior available as an option.

I have also launched t2img.com as a free web service so people can create TextImages without installing WordPress and a plugin. 

This is the first post with the new and extremely useful

Well, OK, it is still pretty basic. The only change is that everything between <textimage> and </textimage> gets turned into an image. It still uses the settings from the plugin options page, so all your images will look alike. Here’s another example:

These may change and there may be others. Please suggest your favorites.

Basic as it is, in my opinion this change makes the Textimage plugin far more potentially useful.

Note: if you’re editing your posts with the online Wordpress editor, you need to use the Code tab to insert the tags. If you see the tags like this:

<textimage>This is supposed to be an image but isn’t</textimage>

you have created your tags on the Visual tab. Go back and edit on the Code tab. The changes you need to make will be obvious.

Many thanks to David Tames for the comment that suggested this.

This site runs a modified version of TextImage. One crucial line of code is different:

$the_text = “<img src=\”$cache_url$basename\”>”;

is replaced with:

$the_text = $the_text . “<img src=\”$cache_url$basename\”>”;

That makes this site display both the HTML version of the post and the resulting image.

If demand warrants I may later add a feature to TextImage to let you designate which posts should be displayed as images and which should not.

This is the home of the TextImage plugin for WordPress. You can download it here: TextImage 0.11