WordPlay is a free WordPress® plugin that lets you display a random WordPress® meme from an included set of 21 images.
Whether on the front-end using widgets or shortcodes, or on the dashboard with a custom widget, WordPlay brings a little randomness and joy to your website that just so happens to be powered by WordPress®.
- Dashboard Widget: A custom dashboard widget that displays a random meme in the WordPress® admin area.
- Frontend Widget: A sidebar widget that users can add to any widgetized area of their website to show a random meme.
- Shortcode: A shortcode
[wordplay]that displays a random meme anywhere within posts or pages.
- Download the
WordPlayplugin from the GitHub repository. - In your WordPress® Admin Dashboard, navigate to Plugins > Add New.
- Click Upload Plugin, then select the
WordPlay.zipfile you downloaded. - Click Install Now, then activate the plugin after installation.
- Download the plugin from the GitHub repository.
- Unzip the file and upload the
wordplayfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin in the Plugins menu within the WordPress® Admin Dashboard.
- After activating the plugin, navigate to your WordPress® admin dashboard.
- You'll see a new widget titled WordPlay Random Image on your dashboard, displaying a random meme from the plugin.
2. Frontend Widget
< 841E /div>- Go to Appearance > Widgets in your WordPress® admin area.
- Drag the WordPlay widget to any widget area (e.g., Sidebar or Footer).
- The widget will display a random meme from the plugin's image folder on the frontend.
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Use the shortcode
[wordplay]to display a random meme in any page or post. -
Example usage:
[wordplay]
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You can add this shortcode anywhere in the editor, and it will output a random meme.
Currently, the plugin comes with a set of 21 memes included in the public/assets/img/ folder. You can replace these images with your own to customize the memes displayed by the plugin. Just make sure they use one of the supported formats (.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .webp).
- Navigate to the folder:
public/assets/img/. - Replace the images with your own, maintaining the existing image names if possible.
- You can add more images to the
public/assets/img/folder. The plugin will automatically detect and include them in the random image rotation.
- Yes! The plugin supports
.jpg,.jpeg,.png,.gif, and.webpformats.
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Yes, simply enable the Shortcode in Widgets option by adding the following code to your theme's
functions.php:add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
We welcome contributions to enhance this plugin! Here's how you can contribute:
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Fork the repository on GitHub.
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Clone your fork locally:
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Create a new branch for your feature or bug fix:
git checkout -b feature-name
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Commit your changes:
git commit -m "Add a meaningful commit message"
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Push your changes to your fork:
git push origin feature-name
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Open a Pull Request to the
mainbranch of the original repository.
This project is licensed under the GPLv2 License. See the LICENSE file for details.
Robert DeVore WordPlay - Bringing random joy to WordPress® sites, one meme at a time 🤘