What is it? Some years back I was playing around with messaging people in binary. This is where you take a string and run it through a text to binary converter. It produces a series of 0’s and 1’s that represent the digital form of the data. Basically its a fun way to share “secret” messages to your friends. One problem I ran into with other text to binary converters is that they could not handle large amounts of data. So I created my own converter that can handle much larger sized strings. So here is my original converter in all its glory: Binary to Text Converter
Well that converter is fine for standalone web pages. However, what if I want to integrate something like that into WordPress? That is when you need to create a plugin. So to flex my PHP, Javascript, CSS, and Ajax skills I created a WordPress plugin. Below are a couple of text fields with associated buttons for doing the conversions. I learned quite a bit about WordPress writing the plugin.
To get you started try deciphering this secret message: “01010011 01100101 01100011 01110010 01100101 01110100 00100000 01001101 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100001 01100111 01100101 ”
Have fun!