WordPress Internet Explorer 8 Accelerator

The Problem
Many a times while browsing the internet we come across text which we would like to blog about. A straight-forward solution is to copy the text and paste it in our WordPress text editor. However, we have to copy the site URL separately as well as the title of the page. To ease this process, the new Internet Explorer includes a useful feature called Accelerators. Great! So now we need a plugin for WordPress.

Internet Explorer 8 WordPress Accelerator

The Plugin
Unfortunately, we cannot use the Internet Explorer Accelerator out-of-the-box. We need to install a small plugin for WordPress which will enable you to pre-populate the title and content of your new post. Also the Accelerator has to be generated on-the-fly because each WordPress URL is unique.

I have developed a two-step hassle free procedure to enable Internet Explorer Accelerator on your WordPress blog:

Note: This solution works only for self hosted blogs and not for blogs hosted on WordPress.com because plugin installation is not allowed on WordPress.com

1. Download the plugin
2. Copy accelerator.php to your wp-content/plugins directory and activate the plugin
3. Now fill in the form below:

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Once you have added the custom accelerator, select any text and “Blog with WordPress”!

Suggestions
Feel free to let me know if there are any suggestions or comments you have. One feature currently missing is that your text will not get posted if you are not logged-in to WordPress. I will be adding this in the next version along with customizing the output.

baron
Works great, thank you
Ben
Thank you much, sir!
google.com/accounts/o8…
Thanks for this. 🙂
Tom
Hi,
I tried your plugin and love the idea of it however I can’t seem to get it work. I have installed it ok. When I select a piece of text and send it to my blog the new post page appears however the text does not get inserted.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Tom.
Tom
Actually ignore me I found the problem! If you use encryption you must put https:// when generating the acclerator on the above form.
Thanks for a great plugin,
Tom.
- Anant Garg
  @Tom Glad to know you got it to work! 🙂
kaourika
This is awesome! Thank you.
Vik
Is it possible to update the accelerator to add around the text that is selected – and also to add at the bottom something that says:
[From:title of the original article (with a link)]
so something like:
[From: WordPress Internet Explorer 8 Accelerator | anant garg]
with the title linked to this page.
- Anant Garg
  @Vik Hello, you will have to edit accelerator.php, line 35 and modify it from:
  document.getElementById(‘content’).value = ‘<strong><a href=”‘+url+'”>’+title+'</a></strong>’+’\n\n’+description;
  to:
  document.getElementById(‘content’).value = description+’\n\n’+'[From: <a href=”‘+url+'”>’+title+'</a>]’;
Ella
Hi…! This rocks. You rock. Thank you for sharing and helping people out. I send you a virtual beer 🙂
Kamaluddin Panhwar
Wow this is really good and I was looking similar something on firefox, but I don’t think they have any add on like these, although they many more add ons.
THanks for sharing, one question any idea how can we do same for multiple blogs?
regards
Kamal.
Michael Yates
Great job!! Love it. Thankyou.
viks.org/
Anant – thank you! That worked great. One more request – how can I put the text that is selected (and blogged) in blockquotes?
Myndmelt
Thanks Anant! This works great!
Jeramey
Is it possible to update the plugin so that I can right click on the link of an article and have the entire thing posted to my blog?
web designer assistant
it worked like a charm..thanks Anant..:)
Neeraj
I am unable to add .php file to blog plugins directory. pls show the way

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