Abbreviations for WordPress

Wrap abbreviations for search engine optimization and support other applications with this useful plugin for WordPress.

Using abbreviations on your website is not a bad idea since people will get tired of reading the same long term over and over again.
Unfortunately, search engines and other application which might render your website are not that great with abbreviations.
Reading software, spelling checkers, language translations or other applications might fall over them.

For instance
You use the abbreviation WoW(World Of Warcraft) on a daily basis in your posts.

Yes – WoW is a popular game.

Search engines will see this abbreviation “WoW” and might rate your page as “not relevant” to World Of Warcraft. You’re readers will link WoW to World Of Warcraft – but application don’t – because they don’t know.

By wrapping abbreviations in the therefor “abbr” HTML element, along with a title(description), applications relying on the structure of your site, can do their job just fine.
This plugin for WordPress helps you out with that.

The “Abbreviations” page under the menu “Settings” shows an table where you can fill out your often used abbreviations like WoW or WHO along with their meanings. After you saved your list of abbreviations, this plugin will put an filter onto the WordPress content (posts/pages) and wraps an “abbr” element around each single provided abbreviation along with the description.

Yes – WoW is a popular game.

When you hover over the abbreviations, the description will be shown just like title attributes do.

Search engines will read the abbreviation and the description which increases the chance for more relevance by specific terms used on search engines like Google.

If you want to add a custom style to the abbr element – use CSS.

abbr {
    text-decoration: underline;
}

How to use ?
Just download the package and upload it by using the “Plugins” section in your WordPress admin panel – or by placing it in your WordPress plugin folder through FTP.

Activate the plugin like you always do and find the new page under the “Settings” section in your WordPress admin panel. Fill in the desired Abbreviation, the description of this abbreviation and (optional) the language.

Due to hypertext references and other probable resources/bookmarks – this plugin only wraps the “abbr” element around abbreviations with an white space on the left and on the right side of the abbreviation – just like real text. This is done to be sure it’s really an abbreviation and not an hypertext reference, bookmark or other source.

Releases
Version 1.0
Initial release.

Version 1.1
Respect existing abbreviation elements – thanks for the input KillerSneak

Abbreviations for Wordpress
abbreviations-for-wordpress.zip
Version: 1.0

Languages:	English
Author:	Laurens ten Ham
Category:	wordpress plugins
License:	Freeware
Date:	December 25, 2011

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