You can easily add extra columns to the WordPress back-end Admin lists for a better overview of your posts, pages, media and comments.
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, its easy to add them with two minor additions to your WordPress theme’s functions.php file.
I started my career working as a developer in the financial services sector, followed by a stint in consulting. I later held VP positions in strategy, marketing and engineering at software companies in the UK, US, France and Germany.
Originally from London in the UK, I moved to Germany in 2000 and now live near Düsseldorf.
What’s Tech Presenting?
Success as a technical presenter depends on our ability to get audiences to take action. After all, without action it’s just entertainment!
I’ve given hundreds of technical presentations at all levels in the software industry and have learned that although creating action’s hard, it’s not impossible.
I share my experience by curating the best tips and tricks, examples and resources from the web at Tech Presenting.
What’s ISV Focus?
ISV Focus is a strategy consultancy helping independent software vendors (ISVs) respond to new opportunities. I apply fresh thinking to conjure practical ideas and solutions.
IMAPsize is an easy to use freeware tool to find and delete those big attachments that tend to accumulate in Gmail archives over time.
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.
The WordPress 3.0 update was OK; I only found a minor CSS issue with the W3 Total Cache plugin that improves WordPress performance.
One of my hosting accounts limits PHP memory, so for these blogs I need to deactive 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.
If you’ve worked with mainframe COBOL in a previous life you might appreciate the “COBOL ON COGS” web framework.
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!
