SimTerm

December 14, 2016

SimTerm Plugin

Make demos of your terminal commands and output in an attractive way.

Show the world how you use the command line with this plugin. Designed for tech blogs, tutorials and sections
where terminal commands matter.

This plugin, make a shortcode: [simterm][/simterm] and shows the text inside as in a terminal session, including
some typing animation and separating user input and program output.
By defaults commands have a $ symbol as the first character of the line and user input has the > (greater than)
symbol.

You can also specify the color of the line using ##red## , ##blue## , ##green## or ##yellow## or even a custom
delay for this line with ##delay=[ms]## with the amount of milliseconds to sleep.

To create the effect it uses “Show Your Terms” by Kande Bofim, a tiny and library agnostic Javascript.

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/plugin-name directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
  3. Use the Settings->SimTerm Settings screen to configure the plugin
  4. In your post enter [simterm][/simterm] shortcode to start a terminal session

Screenshots

  1. Some useless commands typing on screen

    Some useless commands typing on screen

  2. Commands and user input with colors

    Commands and user input with colors

FAQ

I will update it when questions come

Changelog

0.3.2 (2016-12-15)

  • Updated show your terms script. Fixed a bug on empty lines

0.3.1 (2016-12-14)

  • Bug fix for older WordPress versions

0.3.0 (2016-12-14)

  • Main JS update, now supports:
    • replay
      • copy to clipboard (whole term or just a line with double click)
      • status bar (use nostatusbar class to return to the default behaviour)
      • no animate settings (window won’t be animated by default)
      • Ubuntu terminal theme
      • Blue theme (It was implemented in SimTerm, now it is in showyourterms)
      • Terminal won’t replay automatically on mouse over.
  • Compatibility with WordPress 4.7
  • Setting to enable/disable automatic animation (default enabled)
  • Setting to enable/disable statusbar (default disabled)
  • Shortcode settings (animate=”1/0″ , statusbar=”1/0″) to apply to individual terms
  • Updated translations
  • Known issue: Javascript messaged are not translated

0.2.4 (2016-08-11)

  • Main JS update, now supports pause on lines
  • Ability to change theme in the shortcode [simterm theme=”dark”]…[/simterm]

0.2.3 (2016-08-04)

  • < and > are now visible.

0.2.2 (2016-08-03)

  • Plugin translated 100% to Spanish

0.2.1 (2016-08-03)

  • WP 4.2 is now the least compatible version

0.2 (2016-08-03)

  • More config options: window title, typing speed, several new delays and character fixing for HTML output and WordPress.
  • Title is an attribute of shortcode too.
  • Fixed commands with extra attributes ##xxx## weren’t properly recognised.
  • New ##speed## option for lines to specify typing speed.
  • Version tagged 0.2

0.1.1 (2016-08-01)

  • Added translations

0.1 (2016-07-25)

  • Initial version

Details

  • Version: 0.3.0
  • Active installations: 70
  • WordPress Version: 4.2
  • Tested up to: 4.7.29

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