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At long last! If you've been waiting on the edge of your seat for the release of WordPress Flickr Manager 1.1, your week long journey is finally at an end. With this latest arrival, I added a few bells and whistles which have made my 'Flickring' and blogging all the easier, such as the new 'Flickr Manager' panel that appears now just below the tinyMCE editor in your administration panel. This new addition is feature packed, it allows for drag-drop image insertion into your posts, as well as a new and improved upload form.

The browse panel allows for filtering of images through the use of a tag search, as well as the selection of the various image sizes that Flickr have to offer (remember you can still customize the size of the image from within tinyMCE). The time where you would have to leave your post, go to Flickr and copy the code for your image is at an end. Now it's as simple as drag and drop. This brings me to the next tab on the panel, the shiny new upload form.

From here I can upload new images, including various meta details such as the title, tags, and the description. It's now all strapped together with AJAX style functionality so you'll never have to leave your post for anything.

The files are available in zip and tar.gz.

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I had a good time last weekend in Melbourne, had some great food, saw the sites and attended a WordPress event WordCamp. WordCamp was a gathering of geeks with a vision, and that vision was WordPress. The day was action packed with a load of presentations and round-tables, amongst the speakers were Alex Shiels (Automattic), who was telling us about how much wordpress.com had grown and a few of their operational details. A special acknowledgment goes to James Farmer (Edublogs), for which none of this would have been possible without him. Other speakers included Darren Rowse (problogger.net) and Christine Davis (Ultimate Tag Warrior).

The event took place at the Watermark Bar whose logo eerily resembled the WordPress trademark ‘W’. The venue was nice; it had an almost serene like water front view of the Docklands, unfortunately in all the excitement I didn’t get to many photos. Here’s a couple (courtesy of my Flickr Manager plugin) from when they were still decking the place out. In all fairness, any place I go where I leave full of party pies, spring rolls and a shiny new WordPress t-shirt (it’s red, but why then, don’t I blog any faster?) is top notch in my books.

To top off the weekend which had already put me in a bit of a natural nerd high, I splurged and bought a new MacBook Pro. Now broke and burdened with debt I trudged back the airport to board my voyage home once again.

David and I after WordCamp

Recently I've been playing around with Microformats, more specifically hAtom.

As an experiment, I converted this sites feed to a dynamically generated microformat based feed. After doing some reading I came across this little gem, hAtom2Atom, this is where the fun began. I added in the necessary class declarations to my theme according to the hAtom specification and then it was time to get the ball rolling. To speed things up, I found this little script, which provided me with everything I needed to get this operational.

With a few edits here and there, all I had to do was upload the XSL files, accompanied with the script I mentioned above, and edit the RSS line in my theme header to look like this:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> Atom Feed" href="/hatom2atom.php<?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>" />

The results exceeded my expectations, not only does it work for my main feed, but if I wanted to generate any sub-feeds (i.e. a feed for all posts tagged with WordPress) they were covered. All I had to do was subscribe to http://tgardner.net/hatom2atom.php/path/to/whatever/, and I’m sure with a little mod-rewrite I could pretty up the URL a bit. If you’re using a feed reader you can leave out the hatom2atom.php and it will automatically be inserted using the alternate link in the header (i.e. you can subscribe to http://tgardner.net/).

If you want to try this for yourself I threw together a zip of all of the files I needed. Just extract them to the root of your WordPress install and modify the header in your theme like above.

Happy microformatting!

Well you’ve landed on the new virtual home of Trent Gardner, a web developer working for DIRC in Adelaide, Australia. I’m currently completing my Bachelor in Mathematics and Computer Science at Adelaide University. My main field is server side programming with PHP, but I also do a lot of work with client side technologies such as XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

When I first started working at DIRC in August, this year. I had my first look at WordPress, using it as the CMS for the "History of Disability in South Australia" project. This was the beginning of my journey to immerse myself in all things WordPress.

In a more recent project I had the problem of developing a system for keeping Image Management on Flickr as simple as possible so other staff could add images to their posts without leaving the CMS. This brings me to the introduction of "Wordpress Flickr Manager 1.0" available in zip, rar, and tar.gz.

Feature Overview:

• Flickr image uploading.
• View or delete your images.
• Edit image tags, permissions, title, description, etc.
• Insertion into posts using [img:<flickr-id>,<size>]*.

* The image sizes currently supported are:

• Square
• Small
• Thumbnail
• Medium
• Large
• Original