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Dark Matter WordPress Plugin: Display Random Quotes & Sayings – Sun Tzu Version

The Dark Matter WordPress Plugin: Display Random Quotes & Sayings – Sun Tzu Version is a simple WordPress plugin that displays a random quote from Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” on each page or post. This plugin creates a shortcode that you can place in your pages or posts to display a random quote.

[sun_tzu_quote]

Installation:

1. Download the plugin file here
   • Official Dark Matter Website: Dark Matter Themes Utilities & Plugins For WordPress
   • Unzip the file into your WordPress Plugins Directory.
2. Activate the Plugin:
   • Go to your WordPress admin dashboard.
   • Navigate to Plugins > Installed Plugins.
   • Find “Sun Tzu Quotes” and click Activate.

Use the Shortcode:

To display a random quote from Sun Tzu in any post or page, simply add the following shortcode where you want the quote to appear:

[sun_tzu_quote]

I collect a lot of data and data mining is just one of those things that I enjoy.
I build Web Crawlers and Web Scrapers often, but I really love tracking other
bots, some of which I’ve “known” for decades now.

With the ever expanding Facebook Empire, I’ve been catching a lot of the
hits from FacebookExternalHit,
[ facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php) ]
and while Facebook it’self is being overrun by nefarious bots and hacked accounts,
their problem is my solution.

The majority of the hits from FacebookExternalHit have preceded an attack, which tells me several things.
1: Facebook For Developers has given nefarious actors an edge on the Facebook user and I won’t go into detail on that, but I can make better informed security decisions based on what can be done from that side of the platform.

2: I can test my security software on both Facebook and my websites by simply posting a link to Facebook and this is really handy in my line of work. I get to see which Data Center the bot is coming from (GeoLocation), how many bots that particular Data Center has (Interesting Data There) and how fast the reaction time is, which helps determine the software being used and in which manner it’s being used.

3: Most Importantly, it gives me reasons to build new software.

So, I built this database for such purpose as to collect more data on the situation and there’s some interesting patterns developing. While it’s not exactly something I feel the urge to release, it’s worth sharing.

FBDC uses Php and MySQL, a pretty simple database and small file sizes (I like small files).
The User Input Form Works.. Ikr, a form that works??
It has a few things left to work out on the user input; I’m a big fan of getting my hands dirty,
so Updating the Data Center / BotInfo is being done via phpmyadmin until I build a better form.
Here’s a few screenshots:

FBDC – Facebook Data Centers and FacebookExternalHit Bot Collected Data – Main Menu

FBDC – Facebook Data Centers and FacebookExternalHit Bot Collected Data – Data Center List

FBDC – Facebook Data Centers and FacebookExternalHit Bot Collected Data – BotInfo List

FBDC – Facebook Data Centers and FacebookExternalHit Bot Collected Data – User Input Form

FBDC – Facebook Data Centers and FacebookExternalHit Bot Collected Data – Because There HAS to be a Hacker Theme too.

The DarkMatter Display Random Quotes Plugin For WordPress is a very simple and straight forward plugin that posts random quotes to the bottom of WordPress Posts.
You can edit the quotes.txt (plugins/quote-of-the-day/quotes.txt) file to add or remove your own.
You can see it running below this post.

Download: DarkMatter – Quote Of The Day WordPress Plugin