Do you like the pictures?
I’ve been making a point of adding pictures to each post here. 1 Did you notice? Do you like it? Do you not care? Lemme know!
- Photo Credit: Milos Milosevic via Compfight [↩]
So, what do you think of all the pictures?
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CompFight plugin, with 100% more awesome
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
- Photo Credit: seyed mostafa zamani via Compfight [↩]
What was I thinking
Time is the fire in which we burn
I’ve got this website I’m working on and I’m trying to launch a new product. 1 The last time I launched something there I built a quick hacky WordPress plugin using PayPal to serve up the product once a person had made an electronic payment. Not only was it hacky, but looking back almost 2.5 years at that code I want to cringe.
Here’s part of the problem. I hate PayPal so much. They have ugly payment buttons, all the buttons are branded PayPal – which is a mixed blessing2 , unless you have a merchant account your users have to go through PayPal’s payment screens on their site – which causes users no end of angst, the user has to sign up for a PayPal account – which is a whole new layer of tech support nightmares when dealing with the technologically challenged, and I could go on.
I figured I’d give Stripe a shot, it’s supposed to be developer friendly. After wrestling with it for two hours I’m giving up. It’s not that it’s bad, it’s that I’m tired and I’m just not getting it and it’s easier to think like myself-as-a-crappier-coder-two-and-a-half-years-ago and fix up what I’d written than it would be to learn Stripe and shoehorn new code into my old code.
Some days I just want to tear down that website and start from scratch. I just don’t have the time.
On a completely unrelated note, I’m loving this new CompFight WordPress plugin. I’m extra happy about it since I contributed a quick one-line fix that helped improve the plugin. This one little plugin is going to basically make it about 100 times more likely I’m going to be able to drop a fun image into my posts. CompFight is a website that streamlines searching for Flickr CC licensed images. I was actually toying with the idea of making such a plugin when I found out they just developed their own. Awesome.
- Photo Credit: Riccardo Cuppini via Compfight [↩]
- Good: People know and trust PayPal. Bad: It’s freaking PayPal and kinda looks hokey. [↩]