The Associative Dictionary
What is it?
My second Wordpress widget is a simple one: it adds a dictionary to your site and displays words from it through ajax calls. All the words in the description are links themselves, so you can keep wandering through the words. If a word has no description, a small form is displayed to make one up.
It is not meant to be useful, so it has no search — you can only hope visitors will come up with nice, sarcastic or cryptic descriptions.
I have tried to combine all the necessary code in one file: it generates the widget class, the javascript; it also handles the server calls sent by the javascript. This widget creates a table in the database; in the options you’ll find acheckbox to delete all the entries. I think it’s relatively safe, it strips out all the html and transforms special characters to make it useless for refererspammers.
Extract the php-file and upload it to /wp-content/plugins/widgets. In the options you can set:
- widget title
- start with a random word or set the word to start with
- language (Dutch or English for now)
- email address for notification of new words
You can see it in action in my sidebar under “Wanderwords”.
Download
You can download the latest version from the Wordpress Plugins Directory.