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Disclosure Policy Plugin (WordPress)

February 7th, 2007

If you want to add disclosures to posts based on keywords and you’re using WordPress, here’s a plugin for you: Disclosure Policy Plugin, by Andy Beard. I found out about it via Paul OFlaherty’s blog.

It allows you to assign disclosures to particular keywords and then displays them at the bottom of any post using those keywords.

Yeah, this might seem like overkill. I personally don’t have much to disclose and it’s all covered on my About Page, but it’s probably better to err on the side of caution.

Some other tweaks: I moved “Related Posts” from the sidebar to the bottom of individual posts, moved “Recent Comments” above “Most Comments” in the sidebar to give more attention to those hapless few that comment here, and added another banner ad in the footer. More to come, I’m sure.

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  • You know, this could be a lot of fun.

    Keyword: Avatar

    Disclosure: That's not even my cat.

    Keyword: Digg

    Disclosure: Digg commenters are a bunch of morons. It's wisdom of the mobs at it's finest.

    Keyword: Sex

    Disclosure: It's been months. They were right about marriage.
  • Heh, yeah you could even use it for stuff that had nothing to do with disclosures. It seems to look at the words in the post to output the disclosure. I think you could stick images in there, too... might make posting go a lot quicker...

    One could even load a bunch of paragraphs and churn out seemingly endless varieties of random blog posts based on a few choice keywords...
  • Thanks for the mention and for using it.

    For many people it is overkill. I actually recently hacked it a little so it includes a more comprehensive footer for each post on my blog including a permalink. The hack was a little messy for general release as it wasn't planned to start with.

    The advanced features were mainly for VC with changing portfolios, or for people who have lots of advertisers they thank each month.

    Content you write today will still be read next year, and the sponsors change, or your relationship to them.

    It is also good for people who might switch companies etc.

    For those that want something more simple, I also have a disclosure policy feedflare
  • Cool! I'm obviously still playing around with it. But what I appreciate is that its easy to use and powerful. It also has that "set it and forget it" feeling, that once set up, I may mention some company in passing and it will automatically disclose.
  • It certainly would have saved Robert Scoble a lot of egg in the face recently over Intel - when you sign up a new advertiser, just make sure it is included and forget about it.
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