Blog Terminal Plugin

Blog Terminal generates a terminal-like box that you can use to demonstrate terminal output or show the entry of terminal/console commands in a manner that is more demonstrative of actually using a Linux/Unix terminal or Windows cmd shell.

The code is a fork of Post Terminal, which is a fork of WP-Terminal which in turn is a modification of WP-Syntax, a source code highlighter plugin for WordPress.

Unlike Post terminal, it uses [terminal] shorthand for the terminal box. It also shows prompt only on lines explitly set to do that.

Basic Usage

The most basic usage is to wrap your terminal blocks with [terminal][/terminal] tags. If no further options are defined within the tag a generic prompt is generated using ‘user@computer’ with no working directory shown. This is similar to exporting PS1=”\u@\h:$ ” in sh(1), setting prompt=”%n@%m:$ ” in csh(1), etc.
Other options available within the tag are user=”user”, computer=”computer”, and cwd=”/path/to/directory”. These allow you to override the generic user@computer settings as well as provide a ‘current working directory’.
The prompt is only shown on the lines starting with ‘$ ‘. So you can mix commands with simulated terminal output.

Usage

Wrap terminal blocks with [terminal user="username" computer="computername" cwd="/path/to/directory"] and [\terminal]. They are all optional. “user” and “computer” will be shown if you don’t provide them, cwd is purely optional.

Example 1: No customized command

[terminal] $ ls -a [/terminal] 

Example 2: User and computer customizations

[terminal user="tux" computer="linux"] $ ls -a [/terminal] 

Example 3: Customizing just the user

[terminal user="dak"] $ ls -a [/terminal] 

Example 4: Customizing user, computer and displaying a working directory

[terminal user="root" computer="linuxserver" cwd="/usr/src/linux"] $ make mrproper ... ... [/terminal] 

1. Unzip the plugin .zip file and upload the directory to your /wp-content/plugins/.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Create a post/page that contains a code snippet following the proper usage syntax.

1. 

   Basic display with no configuration.

2. 

   Basic display with user and computer configuration.

3. 

   Basic display with user and computer and cwdconfiguration.

4. 

   A more thorough example showing demonstrative purposes

0.2.1

• Add missing style file

0.2.0

• Make compatible with PHP 7

0.1.2

• Preserve terminal indentation

0.1.1

• Wrap long lines
• Wrap terminal in code tags
• Adhere to the latest WordPress coding standards

0.1.0

• Initial release