See at a glance what’s missing in WordPress admin lists
Searching through your WordPress media library for items without “alt” text, caption or description can be time consuming and is error prone, especially if you’ve more than a few images to check. A quick scan could easily reveal what information is missing; if only these three columns were available. Well, as you’ll see, it’s easy to add them with two minor additions to your WordPress theme’s functions.php file.
Hi, I’m Andrew Biss and this is my personal blog, where I post on business and technical innovation. In the software industry since 1980, I’ve held senior development, marketing and strategy positions in the UK, US, France and Germany. Learn more.
Helping software companies innovate
Having held senior business and technical positions at independent software vendors (ISVs) in the UK, US, France and Germany, I founded ISVfocus.com to help ISVs innovate.
Presentation skills for software developers
I launched the TechPresenting.com blog to help software developers build strong presentation skills. A software industry veteran, I’ve given hundreds of internal and external presentations.
Tracking down and deleting large attachments with IMAPsize
This was becoming an issue as I keep a local backup of my Gmail account using IMAP Backup. And while you can find attachments in Gmail using search modifiers has:attachment and filename:zip, you can’t search or sort on attachment size.
The solution: the IMAPsize freeware Windows IMAP utility found via this blog post from Amit Agarwal. IMAPsize’s speciality is searching your Gmail account for folders (Gmail labels) and messages based on attachment size.
I quickly found and deleted my large attachments using IMAPsize. Backup problem solved. Recommended.
WordPress core development outruns my theme and plugins
One of my hosting accounts limits PHP memory, so for these blogs I need to deactivate all plugins before running the automatic update. My other hosting service has enough PHP RAM to not have to do this, which is nice.
All my blogs have now been running WordPress 3.0 in production for a few days and so far I’ve not met any problems with the core product.
One minor issue has been with the CSS minification in the W3 Total Cache plugin. I’m using the latest development version of W3TC but it has an issue with CSS so I’ve disabled minification until I’ve time to look into this further.
You just have to love the demo’s simulated phosphor burn-in
You’ve heard of Ruby on Rails, but what about all those COBOL developers? Well, we can gotoCOBOL ON COGS and reminisce. Pay attention as the screens change to bring back fond memories of the massive, built like a battleship, IBM 3270 green-screen terminals. A very nice touch!
