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

More stuff I wrote randomly that I’m releasing publicly for the hell of it.

• Disable Theme Preview — while the theme preview feature added in WordPress 2.6 is definitely cool, I find it rather annoying on my blogs. This is because I already know what the themes look like but am just needing to quickly switch the theme. So, this plugin gracefully disables it.
• Direct Image URLs For Galleries — makes it so when you click on the thumbnail in the output of a , it takes you directly to the fullsize image rather than a page containing the medium size image.

Also now available on WordPress.org: More To The Top

I’m in the middle of recoding my other site and in the process, I’ve had to write multiple custom plugins to accomplish my needs.

I thought I’d release two of them to the public on the off-chance anyone would find them useful. They are:

• Allow Numeric Stubs: allows for children Pages to have numbers as stubs
• Breadcrumb Titles For Pages: makes wp_title() output all ancestors when viewing a Page

Yep, that official WordPress App for the iPhone and iPod Touch that I mentioned earlier is now available!

You can download it right here. I’m off to do it myself!