using regex to parse HTML has doomed humanity to an eternity of dread torture and security holes using regex as a tool to process HTML establishes a breach between this world and the dread realm of c͒ͪo͛ͫrrupt entities (like SGML…
Web Design
jQuery-Filling an Input Box in WordPress Admin
…on how I think a textbox should be filled in WordPress Admin… from simple anchor links… and when the content – in this instance long image links – is too long to be nicely contained… plus some little tricks and things I never noticed or noticed I’d noticed before…
Comparative Page Loads with and without Image Errors
This benefit of WP-RUBI is additional to the one of avoiding “the $8,000 mistake” of using unlicensed images, but for some sites will be much more important.
An Alliance of Digital Artists (Art and Work in the Age of Instant Reproducibility)
If the Digital Artists Alliance never amounts to more than a temporary reference point, the basis for a gesture of respect by some site operators toward an ideal, then that will be enough for me, but I invite anyone interested in exploring larger possibilities to join me.
Getting to Better WordPress Twitter oEmbed
1) The content of deleted tweets, if ever previously fetched and rendered, should remain “there” in an affected post’s post meta, and 2) it should be quite possible to emulate the rendering process programmatically, whether for the sake of presenting deleted tweets in a way that marks them as such and also harmonizes aesthetically with “normal” tweets, or whether for the sake of automating and customizing the display in other ways, without having to resort to hacks.
Getting Right with Image Rights: Workflow and Major Minor Upgrade
I discovered many non-rights-cleared images that I now think may have detracted from the posts in some ways, even if they initially seemed to make them more attractive or striking.
Getting Right with Image Rights: WP Replace Unlicensed and Broken Images Plug-In
A primary use for WP-RUBI will be at sites where administrators have decided to remove images that have been used either without permission or under lapsed or lapsing usage licenses: Proper employment will help to reduce or eliminate legal and actual “exposure” quickly and easily, without harming the site’s search engine rankings and while preserving posts as originally composed, allowing for eventual restoration.
Posted in Using WordPress, WordPress Plug-Ins Tagged with: Copyright Infringement, DMCA, Wordpress, WP-RUBI
All-Nude Tweets (Hacking Extraneous Content from Twitter Embeds) – Updated
The Twitter default is for “cards” and “conversation” to display, but you can get rid of them either tweet by tweet or through a copy-paste-search-and-replace-re-copy-paste.
Output-Buffering and Extensible WordPress Plug-Ins
Contrary to my tentative conclusions of a month ago, I now understand at least one good reason to use output-buffering while writing WordPress code. Indeed, I now anticipate using the tool frequently.
Posted in Using WordPress, WordPress Plug-Ins Tagged with: apply_filters, do_action, ob_start(), PHP, Wordpress
To o-b or not to o-b (output-buffering in WordPress) – UPDATED
My general impression is that, unless I have a very good reason for using it – probably involving the kind of script in which I’m not generally interested at this time – I should avoid it.