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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.
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Tech Presenting is where I curate tips and tricks, examples and other resources to help you give technical presentations that get audiences to take action. After all, without the action it’s just entertainment!
Using IMAPsize to find and delete large attachments
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.
“W3 Total Cache” CSS minification broken with Thesis theme
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.
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!
