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Blog Terminal
Blog Terminal provides a terminal-like box for embedding terminal commands within pages or posts.
The facts
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 11 Aug 2021
- Added
- Oct 2017
- Requires WP
- 2.5
- Tested up to
- WP 5.8.15
- Requires PHP
- 5.4
- Downloads
- 4,234
Our analysis
AI-assistedBlog Terminal is a WordPress plugin that creates a terminal-like box for displaying terminal output or commands. You can wrap your terminal blocks with specific tags to simulate a Linux/Unix terminal or Windows cmd shell environment.
This plugin is suitable for users who want to demonstrate command-line usage in a visually appealing format on their WordPress sites. It allows for customization of the user, computer name, and current working directory within the terminal display.
Best for: This plugin is best for bloggers or educators who want to showcase command-line examples on their WordPress sites.
What it does well
- ✓Generates a terminal-like box for command demonstration
- ✓Customizable user and computer names
- ✓Supports current working directory display
- ✓Easy to use with simple shortcode syntax
- ✓Free to download from the WordPress.org directory
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on features and performance
- •No published rating available
- •Last updated in August 2021
Verdict
Blog Terminal provides a straightforward way to present terminal commands, though its limited updates and lack of ratings may be a concern for some users.
From the developer
rsprta's own description of Blog Terminal, lightly tidied.
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]
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