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New WordPress Plugin: Remember Attachment Link Preferences

October 30, 2007 – 1:01 am
I wrote this plugin to deal with a common complaint from my clients: when uploading pictures in WordPress and sending them to the editor, one has to repeatedly re-select how the image should appear. In the case of the screenshot below, I checked “Show: Full size” and “Link to: Page.” This can get tedious if [...]
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Boston Turkeys

October 26, 2007 – 10:01 am
The Boston Globe has noticed the increasing number of turkeys in the Brookline area. As I mentioned a while back, I’ve seen them a number of times in Brighton and in Newton. Surprisingly, the Globe article says that the Brookline police department sometimes gets a dozen complaints about the birds every day. They are an [...]
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Filosofo’s WordPress Gravatar Plugin

October 23, 2007 – 12:50 pm

Automattic, the company behind WordPress, recently acquired Gravatar. In case you don’t know, gravatars—or “globally recognized avatars”—are images that you can associate with an email address, so a picture of your choice can appear alongside your comments on many others’ blogs. Gravatar already provides a simple WordPress plugin, but it suffers from a common plugin [...]

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