A client needed a way to regenerate all thumbnails for their uploads, so I threw together a plugin to do that in just one click and a helpful interface.

Another teaser of Viper’s Video Quicktags v6.0.0:

Remember, it’s still not too late to get those feature suggestions in!

WordPress 2.6.1 is now available. There are no security concerns in 2.6.0, so 2.6.1 is strictly a bugfix release. If you’re happy with 2.6.0, no need to upgrade if you don’t want to (although I did).

Cyanide & Happiness is one of my favorite webcomics, but I can never remember to read them as I have Penny-Arcade as my homepage.

So my plan was to write a little script to parse Explosm.net’s HTML to fetch the URL to the latest comic, output it as a RSS feed, and then enable the e-mail subscription feature at FeedBurner. So, I spent 15 minutes or so writing the PHP script and when I went to go republish it via FeedBurner, I discovered someone had already beat me to it. However they don’t have the e-mail subscription feature on, so my problem wasn’t 100% solved. So, I cloned their feed, setup e-mail subscriptions, and here we are — now Cyanide & Happiness can be delivered directly to my inbox every day.

If you’d like the same, use this form:

Hopefully someone else gets some use outta it. :)

I’m in the process on recoding Viper’s Video Quicktags and am looking for input.

If there’s a feature or a video site that you would like to see supported in the next version, the comments section of this post is the place to post it. Please note that in order for a video website to be supported, the URL in your address bar must have something in common with the embed code. What I mean is the URL can’t be this:

http://videosite.com/videos/my-cool-video/

while the embed HTML looks like this:

<object width="400" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://embed.videosite.com/files/52asdf7f43j753v32465” /></object>

Notice that there is no way for my plugin to figure out the embed ID from the video’s URL.

Perhaps in a future version I’ll add the ability for you to paste in the HTML embed code and the Javascript powered button will figure out the video ID before inserting it into the post (just inserting the HTML itself into the post would defeat the purpose of this plugin), but not for now.

Oh, and here’s a sneak preview of my work in progress configuration screen:

Apparently there’s gonna be a WordCamp here in Portland. The previous major WordCamps have always looked interesting but were much too far away for me to go. However with this one being just a short bus ride away, I no longer have any legitimate reasons not to go.

So, I guess you know where I’ll be on Saturday, September 27th. :)

jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries makes your [gallery]’s use Lightbox to show the fullsize images. Users can now browse the fullsize images without leaving the page.

It was written after a I got a request by Wendy© for such a thing on my Direct Image URLs For Galleries plugin which itself was the starting point for this new plugin.

Here’s a demo:

Images by Microsoft