Day: April 30, 2012

CompFight plugin, with 100% more awesome

Heart
Heart

I cannot express to you how much I just love this new CompFight plugin. 1  Snagging images off of CompFight/Flickr and dropping them into a post is so freaking easy now.  This is definitely going to become one of my stock-plugins for a fresh WordPress installation.  I’m happy to say that I contributed a small bit of code to this very very awesome plugin.  Since that comment, my modification of their code was merged into the main plugin.  I’ve also added a few small tweaks to my version of this plugin.  By modifying the javascript file very slightly, my copy of this plugin also:

  • Adds a caption, that includes the same text as the original photo on Flickr
  • Centers the image, using WordPress’s tags
  • Makes the photo credit part of the text.  I like to include the photo credit using slightly different language.  At some point I’ll get around to modifying the plugin so that I can save my format as a setting.

Admittedly, these implementations are just a little bit buggy – I just hacked those bits in without really doing any serious testing on them.  Once I have kicked the tires on this code a little, I’ll post it to the plugin’s page.  If you want to take a look at it before then, just drop me a line.

Sometimes the right post just needs the right picture – I’ve actually had a lack of a good photo hold up a post before.  I’m happy

  1. Photo Credit: seyed mostafa zamani via Compfight [↩]

I have re-written this exact post subject line no less than five times

My pencils? My pencils are sharp enough.
My pencils? My pencils are sharp enough.

and I’m still not satisfied with it.  ((Photo Credit: Emi Yañez via Compfight))  Ze Frank may just be my brand new hero.  You see, all the things he says in this video are the exact kinds of things I could really stand to hear right now.  I’ve listened to this particular video probably three times now.  I don’t want to listen to it too often as I will probably accidentally memorize it.  I don’t want his words to be like the world “oatmeal” when repeated over and over so that it becomes mush in my mind, devoid of meaning.  I want it to feel like he’s calling me up and leaving an awesome voice mail on my phone.

The title of this post is an interesting thing/problem.  I had several amusing and slightly clever titles.  I rejected several of them after writing just a few words, rejected before they were even fully articulated.  Finally, as with the pencils Ze mentions, I found that the pencils at my disposal were sharp enough.  It was more important to start, than to get it right at first.

No, I’m not just referring to the title of this post.  I’m in the process of launching something on this other website.  I’ve been working on this project off and on for three years.  It’s been super close to launch for the last few months – just waiting for me to do some finishing work.  I’m almost there…

My pencils are sharp enough…

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