Remove paragraph tags from images in WordPress
By default, WordPress wraps images in ‘p’ tags. That is annoying. Here’s a nifty trick via jamesc on Stackoverflow for removing it.
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<?php /* Plugin Name: Image P tag remover Description: Plugin to remove p tags from around images in content outputting, after WP autop filter has added them. (oh the irony) Version: 1.0 Author: Fublo Ltd Author URI: http://fublo.net/ */ function filter_ptags_on_images($content) { // do a regular expression replace... // find all p tags that have just // <p>maybe some white space<img all stuff up to /> then maybe whitespace </p> // replace it with just the image tag... return preg_replace('/<p>\s*(<a .*>)?\s*(<img .* \/>)\s*(<\/a>)?\s*<\/p>/iU', '\1\2\3', $content); } // we want it to be run after the autop stuff... 10 is default. add_filter('the_content', 'filter_ptags_on_images'); |
Save that to your wp-content/plugins folder and activate it via the dashboard.
Think about your privacy on social networking sites
Social networking gives us a wide reach to broadcast information about ourselves and what we’re doing. But it’s easy to forget just who may be able to access what we’re posting, and how that may reflect on us as individuals. As Facebook’s recent Timeline update demonstrates, what we post to our social networks creates a long historic trail of data about our digital selves.
A story posted this morning on The Next Web reported on a website that highlights just how little thinking goes into so much of what gets posted on social networks. The website, called “We Know What You’re Doing“, aggregates publicly available data from Facebook and Foursquare to call out what can only be viewed as stupid behaviour.
The main page of the site shows a list of status updates from Facebook, divided into four categories: Who wants to get fired?, Who’s hungover?, Who’s taking drugs, and Who’s got a new phone number?. Using Facebook’s Graph API the site is able to pull in actual status updates for each category, complete with a profile photo, first name, and last initial for each user. (I’ve blacked out the names on the screenshot below, but they can be seen in full view on the site).
In another section the site posts actual Foursquare checkins at users’ homes, complete with a photograph of the house or apartment building from Google Streetview. And another section called “Facebook friend checkins” presumably does the same thing as the Foursquare section, but I was unable to access it without granting access to my own Facebook account (which I’m not prepared to do).
At the top of the page, the site proclaims in large type: “We know what you’re doing…”. Then at the bottom of the page it says: “…and we think you should stop.”
The creator of the site calls it an “experiment”, stating “This website is intended to demonstrate the privacy risks that social networking has”.
Indeed.
There are two main takeaways from this experiment:
1) Use privacy controls
You see those “Privacy Settings” on your account? Use them. In Facebook you can even create custom settings within your network, so that different “friends” within your network have different levels of access to what you post. And you can even do it on a post-by-post basis. (I don’t use Foursquare so I’m not sure what privacy options are available there, but if you use Foursquare, look into it.
2) Think before you post
Even if you’ve adjusted your privacy settings, take a second to think about who might see your post, and how it might reflect on your reputation. I’m not saying you should censor yourself or pretend to be someone you’re not – I’m sure I’ve posted things before that have raised a few eyebrows. Just be prepared to explain your judgment if you have to, and to deal with any consequences.
As a general rule: don’t use social media to badmouth your boss, your company, your clients, or for that matter your friends or family members. Save those conversations for the pub or the dinner table (or better yet have a civil, face to face conversation with those concerned).
In short, use common sense.
Display http in Firefox
Starting with Firefox version 7, the http:// protocol indicator no longer appears in the url by default. This means when you copy and paste the url from the address bar you get, for example, www.domain.com instead of the full http://www.domain.com.
For average users this is no big deal. But if you copy and paste urls into HTML code a lot, like I do, you need to manually enter http:// each time. It’s tedious and annoying, and if you’re copying and pasting dozens or even hundreds of urls for a project it’s easy to miss a few. Then the links don’t work. And that’s even more annoying.
Fortunately there’s a fix for this – which is probably old news by now to some readers, since Firefox 7 was released in September 2011. But it’s still an issue today in version 12. It also bit me sort of hard yesterday when I left the http:// out of a couple of links in an HTML email newsletter that was sent out to over 1,000 subscribers*.
So here’s how to display http:// in Firefox:
Type about:config into the address bar.
Filter for browser.urlbar.trimURLs,
then double-click it, so it’s value turns to “false”.
And that takes care of that. Now the http:// appears in the address bar, and will be included when you copy and paste the url.
* Regarding the email: I tested it using Outlook 2010, which apparently does not require http:// in the code to recognize urls. So the links appeared to work just fine for me. But the editor of the newsletter uses Outlook 2003, which does require http://. So he noticed the error, but not before the email was sent. Gah!
(Email standards… C’mon! I’m sure I’ll have more to say on that subject in future posts…).