Card Converter is a WordPress plugin with poker bloggers in mind, but it can be used by anyone who would like to display playing cards in posts and comments. It will take card abbreviations such as Ad (meaning Ace of diamonds) and convert it to a CSS graphical-like representation of the card. Inspiration for the plugin came from Chris Halverson’s Pokerhand plugin and the CSS cards on the World Poker Tour Fan Site.
The plugin has moved to the WordPress Plugin Repository. All development and files will be available there from now on.
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Going to try out the plugin later. It sounds really cute.
Ok…so I never tested comments….whoops!
One of the comment filters in Word Perfect is removing the <span> tags used to style the card. If anyone knows a way around this, let me know.
Fixed. If you’ve already downloaded and installed it, download again and make sure to follow the new step 3 above.
Should this work for us mere computer mortals??? If so, I can’t figure it out.
Yes. I take it you mean here in the comments. Simply type <card>As</card> and you should getAs .
Very cool I was just about to install Chris Halvorson’s plugin, now I am going to be using this one.
Just saw this on the plug-in page. Very interesting.
Now you should add it to your clickable smilies plug-in for real ease of use.
Good job as usual.
Actually I have it added to the clickable buttons on my 2 Hole Cards site because that is where all of my poker stuff is now.
* Rank & Suit
o AcAd
o KCTC
* Unsuited
o 8j?
* Unranked
o Ch
* Invalid cards
o V
o 0
o Ph
o Eb
o ch
o 1ds
As
AsYou need to place <card> to the left of the card and </card> to the right of the card.
For instance…
<card>Ad</card>
will produce this…
Ad
Hmmm…maybe it’s not working with 1.5. I’ll have to do some testing!
Testing…On my site, diamonds show up as squares.
ad
Jc Tc JsTs tt Jc
… just testing out the plugin
Qh
js
Jc JC jc jC okay one of these has to work
okay what’s the secret?
You need to surround your card with card tags, such as
Ac Kc -vs- 2h7c Flop comes 2d2c7h … sucka.
You can only put one card inside the card tags.
American Airlines =
Kojak =
Cool!
The diamond couldn’t show up!!10d 9d
Superb! I have been looking for something like this for ages!
I wrote a similar plugin for WP. But it comes in different languages, helps out with a nice visual editor and supports more the one cardstyle.
http://www.pokerup.de/wordpress-plugin-playing-cards-generator
I heard, that some versions of WordPress do not support this plugin. It is valid so?
Does this plugin works under 2.6 WP?
regards
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