What is it?
The Pinky and The Brain plug-in [PATBPI] is a straight rip-off of Matt Mullenweg's Hello Dolly plug-in. As you all know, the Hello Dolly plug-in ships as standard with WordPress. According to the WordPress codex:
This is not just a plugin; it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong: Hello Dolly. This is, by the way, the world's first official WordPress plugin. When enabled you will randomly see a lyric from Hello Dolly in the upper right of your admin screen on every page but the plugins page.
The Pinky and The Brain WordPress plug-in is a very simple variation on this theme. Instead of the lyrics to Hello Dolly being displayed in the top right of your screen, you'll get a random Brain word.
Hold on, what's a Brain word?
If you pay attention to the end credits of any Pinky and the Brain cartoon, there is always a fake credit which consists of a relatively obscure word and its definiton*. Tom Duryea has put a list of Brain's words together. I confess: I stole that, too.
* Clearly the words are less likely to be obscure to you if you are, say, Mr Stephen Fry.
Installation instructions
NOW ACTUALLY WORKING!
- Download from here.
- Remove the
.txt
bit from the file name, so it's just calledpatb.php
. - Upload to your WordPress plug-ins directory, which should be
/wp-content/plugins
. - Activate in your plug-ins pane through the Dashboard.
- Done.
Download
[It's a single file, so right click to download]
Thank you to everyone who wrote in to tell me about the previous problem with downloading.
Copyright information
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.