Today I’ve written my first Wordpress plugin! It was surprisingly easy. I wrote a plugin that lets me add pictures from the gallery to my blog posts. I used to generate the HTML code for the thumbnails with a script and copy-paste that code into my blog post which is far from optimal. Now I let the same script generate a string like this: [\mrdeus_plogger:60,59,15,14] (without the backslash) and the plugin transforms that into the images below. The BoA image to the right is also generated by the plugin.

It’s generated on the fly, so any changes I make in the gallery are shown directly in the blog. It will also re-generate any missing thumbnails. Now I can take this off my to-do list, but while writing this plugin I found a number of bottle necks in the Plogger code the gallery is based on, so I’ll have to add a couple of new points to the list instead