WordPress 2.6 Easter Egg

Donncha O Caoimh | November 26, 2008 | 124 comments

This is new to me, even though others have known about it for months. There’s a Matrix Easter Egg in WordPress 2.6 and in the betas of WordPress 2.7. To activate it:

Edit a post.
Scroll down to the revisions section of the page and click the latest revision.
On the next page, scroll down again and select the same revision for comparison.
The Matrix has you..

Danger !
Self-comparison detected.
Initiating infinite loop eschewal protocol.
Self destruct in… 3
2
1
Wake up, Donncha…
The Matrix has you…
Don’t let this happen again. Go Back.

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124 Comments

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Michael (1 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 11:11 am.

Very cool

Navjot Singh (1 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 11:22 am.

Cool…Never I thought of comparing two same revisions. Great found. Strange is the fact, noone has posted ever about this…atleast I have not seen any blog posting abt this. Great find.

Rich Pedley (1 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 11:33 am.

Like it! and no I didn’t know about it either.

Andy (1 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 11:40 am.

Thats fantastic!

Lee Doyle (1 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 11:41 am.

I made a post about this
http://leedoyle.com/wake-up-wordpress-has-you-wordpress-matrix-tric.html

But your video explains much better

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Simon (1 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 11:53 am.

Now that is a whole new world of awesome!

Rasmus Grouleff (1 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 12:00 pm.

This is also new to me. Brilliant easter egg. Thanks for sharing

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TheChrisD (71 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 1:53 pm.

And I thought my server’s security was top of the line

Dianso (1 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 1:58 pm.

nice!

Ben (1 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 1:58 pm.

this is new for me too. Cool!

Viper007Bond (28 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 2:15 pm.

I find it humorous that you didn’t know about it.

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mkjones (1 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 4:42 pm.

This has been around since 2.5 I scared one of my clients with it a while ago.

Andrew Myers (1 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 4:51 pm.

That’s really, really funny! I wonder who wrote that.

Adam (1 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 5:18 pm.

Sweet – that’s my video!

I posted about this on my blog a bit back http://awaitinginspiration.com/wordpress-26-easter-egg

Scared the crap out of me the first time it happened but was funny once I figured out what it was.

I can’t clam I’m the first person to know about it though.

Adam

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Renis (1 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 5:55 pm.

Really nice! Thanks

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Jake Spurlock (2 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 6:53 pm.

How awesome is that!

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Ben Kenobi (1 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 7:13 pm.

I see this matrix one day by chance… ^^

It is enormous !!

Paleo Pat (3 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 7:20 pm.

you’re just now finding out about this?

I’ve known about this for a while now.

-Pat

BGR (1 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 7:27 pm.

One helluva redirect.

Is it temporary or permanent?

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Woudloper on November 26, 2008 at 8:49 pm.

It is still in the beta3 of WordPress 2.7. So i supose it will also remain an easter egg in the 2.7 release.

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Jason Saggers (1 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 10:32 pm.

Wow now that is cool.
Something different that is for sure.

Sam (1 comments.) on November 26, 2008 at 10:59 pm.

If that’s not the coolest easter egg ever!

Leefe (1 comments.) on November 27, 2008 at 4:18 am.

It’s the wrong time of year for Easter eggs. Put it back and wait until April.

Jonathan (3 comments.) on November 27, 2008 at 4:39 am.

So that’s what all the updates are for? “Hey guys, we’ve got a wicked important update in the trunk. Everyone should upgrade immediately.”

It is cool, though.

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NitrouZ (1 comments.) on November 27, 2008 at 10:46 am.

w0w.. COOL !

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Dr. Rock (1 comments.) on November 27, 2008 at 12:36 pm.

Okey that scared the crap out of me, my name is Adam, so that was creepy, thou I have gotten that before but not from comparing 2 revisions, dunno where about i got it…

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Paokens Keeper (1 comments.) on November 27, 2008 at 8:45 pm.

Haha, ok, that’s mad @#$%ing cool…Thanks for pointing that one out. lol

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AgentSmith (1 comments.) on November 28, 2008 at 12:42 am.

Hilarious! My display-name is “AgentSmith”, so it looks a little strange when it says “Wake up, AgentSmith..” but very beautifully done.

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Stephen (1 comments.) on November 28, 2008 at 3:26 am.

It would appear to be all Matt’s fault. He committed the JavaScript file that is cleverly encoded to avoid detection.

http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/8306

That would mean it was introduced in the third beta of 2.6.

Grey Fuzz (1 comments.) on November 28, 2008 at 3:59 am.

Good one! I’ve seen that a couple of times but was never sure what I’d done to trigger it… maybe always trying to do a dozen things at once wasn’t such a good plan

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Ouguiliang (1 comments.) on November 29, 2008 at 7:38 pm.

wow, it’s really funny… I like this kind of Easter Egg

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wangyh (1 comments.) on December 1, 2008 at 10:03 am.

http://imwyh.net/archives/32.html
This is earlier than yours

Chris on December 1, 2008 at 11:58 am.

If I’d have done that with our software in my worktime I’d have gotten fired lol

Johan Swarts (1 comments.) on December 1, 2008 at 1:18 pm.

Lol, thank you for sharing this, I didn’t know it either

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jafer (1 comments.) on December 6, 2008 at 1:19 am.

That was neat. Of course I had to try it myself. However, if I hadn’t read about it here first, it would have scared the crap out of me.

Master Yoda (1 comments.) on December 6, 2008 at 12:45 pm.

Hi all in this galaxy!

Indeed Matrix it is…
We in Matrix all are

When outside Earth Matrix… Matrix II you are in…
Yoda wander and wonder about matrix’es

May the force be with us all

rico moorman (1 comments.) on December 8, 2008 at 6:37 pm.

wish it had a real self destruction mechanism though… ; )

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Jaog (1 comments.) on March 1, 2009 at 2:54 am.

Thanks it worked

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Kamal Hasa (2 comments.) on May 14, 2010 at 5:44 pm.

The easter egg thing could have been much better. I mean its kinda boring the way it is now :p

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Mike on November 6, 2011 at 7:26 pm.

Well, it wasn’t very funny for some seconds there when I hit the comparison button by mistake… the page went totally black and the matrix font started typing something on my screen…i thought my server was under attack or something.

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