Title: Lexicographer
Author: texttheater
Published: 10 сар 2, 2009
Last modified: 5 сар 14, 2020
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# Lexicographer
By [texttheater](https://profiles.wordpress.org/texttheater/)
[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/lexicographer.zip)
* [Details](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/lexicographer/#description)
* [Reviews](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/lexicographer/#reviews)
* [Installation](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/lexicographer/#installation)
* [Development](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/lexicographer/#developers)
[Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/lexicographer/)
## Description
Lexicographer creates an alphabetical index of your blog, using keywords you choose.
The index can be included in any page, post or text widget. Here’s an [example](http://texttheater.net/woerterverzeichnis)
of such an index.
I wrote this plugin because I like to invent words and define them on my blog, thereby
creating a dictionary distributed over several posts. Not only was there no list
of all the words available, it was also that Google wouldn’t find the words because
it couldn’t deal with the stress marks I put in there, dictionary-style. Lexicographer
solves both of these problems.
Lexicographer’s index is divided into sections, according to the initial characters
of terms. Such sections are currently created for the Latin letters (A-Z, letters
with diacritics are grouped with the non-diacriticized versions), Hindi characters,
and Telugu characters. A single section “#” is created for all Arabic digits (0-
9). All other initial characters go into a special section titled “*”. Contributions
to add support for other writing systems are welcome!
### Usage
Lexicographer does not add any new elements to the WordPress admin interface. Instead,
you use it as follows:
In the posts and pages where you define terms, [use “Edit as HTML”](https://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpress-editor/#configuring-a-block)
and put the words and terms to index in spans of class `lemma`, like so: `ˌsu·per·ca·liˌfra·gi·lis·ticˌex·pi·a·liˈdo·cious` (the stress
and hyphenation marks are of course optional).
In the page (or post, or text widget) where you’d like the index to live, paste
the following shortcode:
[lexicographer_index]
At this place, the index will be inserted. It will consist of the defined terms,
linking to the definitions.
Shortcode attributes:
* anchorlinks [true/false, default: true]: If true, anchored links to the terms
will be created. If false, links to the post(s) containing the term will be created.
* headerlevel [int, default: 3]: Which heading level to use for the capical
characters
in the index.
### Support
If you have questions or suggestions, contact me at poststelle ät texttheater döt
net.
## Installation
Either:
1. Search for and install Lexicographer directly through the ‘Plugins’ menu in
WordPress
Or:
1. Download and unzip Lexicographer
2. Upload the `lexicographer` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins` directory
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
## Reviews
### [Efficient and easy to use](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/efficient-and-easy-to-use-2/)
[jelsgaard](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jelsgaard/) 9 сар 3, 2016
I’ve used this plugin for six months now. It’s extremely easy to use and setup.
Just provide some markup for the words you want in the lexicon, enter the shortcode
where you want the lexicon to appear and you’re done. If you have a large number
of words (100+) to index, there are probably better options. The plugin does not
support any form of sub-pages, i.e. if you have several words that start with an“
a”, they’ll all be listed below each other. That being said, this a great, free
plugin, which I highly recommend.
[ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/lexicographer/reviews/)
## Contributors & Developers
“Lexicographer” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.
Contributors
* [ texttheater ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/texttheater/)
* [ jelsgaard ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jelsgaard/)
* [ nadiminti ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nadiminti/)
[Translate “Lexicographer” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/lexicographer)
### Interested in development?
[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/lexicographer/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/lexicographer/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/lexicographer/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/lexicographer/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).
## Changelog
#### 0.9
* Added support for Telugu and Hindi (contribution by Sriram Nadiminti).
* Tested with WordPress 5.1.1.
#### 0.8
* Changed how the Lexicographer index is inserted in posts and pages. You must
now use shortcodes instead of pasting the
{{Lexicographer index}}
string where you want the index to appear.
* Using the shortcode, you can now specify
the heading level of the capital character and if you want anchoring links for the
terms or just plain links to posts. * Tested with WordPress 4.4.2.
#### 0.7
* The individual index sections are now put into divs of class
lexicographer-index-
section for the benefit of those who want to style and/or script the index.
#### 0.6.
* The index is now put into a div of class lexicographer-index for the benefit
of those who want to style and/or script the index.
#### 0.5
* Transliteration of lemmas to ASCII both for creating anchor names and for
sorting
now uses the same transliteration table. The characters ÄäÖöÜü (graphemes corresponding
to German umlauts) still receive special treatment in that they are expanded
à la ä ae for anchor names (but not for sorting), but this is now done as a
preprocessing step.
* The transliteration table now covers almost every latin-derived letter in the
Unicode blocks Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B and Latin
Extended Additional. Most transliterations are “glyph-oriented” in that they
involve only removing diacritic marks, decomposing ligatures and rotating letters
back. A few transliterations are more “usage-oriented”, such as ß ss, þ th
or Ɣ g. Some effort was made to keep the transliteration table sane, consistent
and language-neutral. Missing letters are indicated in comments. Suggestions
for additions and improvement are more than welcome!
* Bugfix: generated links were broken if not using /%postname permalinks.
* Bugfix: was indexing unpublished posts/pages on installation.
#### 0.4
* Now observing DB_CHARSET for creating the database table. This fixes a
problem
where non-ASCII characters get replaced by question marks when inserting into
the table via a UTF-8 connection.
* Tested with WordPress 3.3.2.
* Updated documentation.
#### 0.3
* Index can now be inserted in widgets.
* Tested with WordPress 3.3.
* Updated documentation.
#### 0.2
* Lemmas are now removed from the index when the post/page containing them is
deleted or otherwise unpublished.
* The index now uses absolute links.
* Tested with WordPress 2.9.1.
* Updated documentation.
#### 0.1
* Initial release.
## Meta
* Version **0.9.4**
* Last updated **6 жил ago**
* Active installations **20+**
* WordPress version ** 2.8.4 or higher **
* Tested up to **5.3.21**
* Language
* [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/lexicographer/)
* Tags
* [dictionary](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dictionary/)[glossary](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/glossary/)
[index](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/index/)[words](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/words/)
* [Advanced View](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/lexicographer/advanced/)
## Ratings
5 out of 5 stars.
* [ 2 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/lexicographer/reviews/?filter=5)
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## Contributors
* [ texttheater ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/texttheater/)
* [ jelsgaard ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jelsgaard/)
* [ nadiminti ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nadiminti/)
## Support
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[View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/lexicographer/)