WPLookup – Find Functions and Template Tags Fast

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1. Idealien (1 comments.) says:

   3/7/2009 at 10:28 am

   An auto-suggest feature to the box that maps it’s contents from the function list. It should parse what I type anywhere within the function name.

   Although quite separate in scope, there used to be a WP Dreamweaver extension but is quite out of date. If someone has the skills/time/interest to get that back up to date (perhaps leveraging the new work that is being done to bring the documentation into the SVN) – that would be very awesome in my mind.
   • brad hart (1 comments.) says:

     3/8/2009 at 9:48 am

     I have been hoping someone would update the Dreamweaver extensions for a long time. Though I admit not having things readily at hand and looking them up regularly has made me a better theme coder…
2. Ronald (3 comments.) says:

   3/7/2009 at 10:49 am

   In addition to showing the source, any function could be a clickable link taking you to the code immediately rather than a new search.
3. david (3 comments.) says:

   3/7/2009 at 10:57 am

   From a brief use, a Google search is still far more useful to me.

   As you mention, it would be far nicer if the tool had it’s own results page, showing some combination of Codex documentation, actual function code, and perhaps user’s notes on the function.
4. Synergy Articles (6 comments.) says:

   3/8/2009 at 9:34 am

   It’s a step in the right direction. I mean, the Codex docs are great but we’re long overdue for something more.
5. Trisha says:

   3/9/2009 at 1:50 pm

   Here’s a suggestion……often times I know what I want to do, but don’t know the name of the function……I start with the Template Tags page on the Codex and browse a few that sound applicable until I find what I need……so maybe WP Lookup could return suggested functions based on a keyword or phrase?

   I agree with David’s suggestion of WP Lookup having its own search results page. This has the potential to be a great tool also if it could segment search results to show Codex results first, suggested related functions, then perhaps some of the top Google results, which is often how I figure out how to use a function to do what I want.