Now that I have a few blogs and kind of a standard way of doing things, I’m figuring out what adds time to posting and what are repetitive tasks. For me, probably the biggest thing is adding images. I like to add images to every post, but it takes forever.
I have to:
- find the image
- upload it to my own image server
- get the url
- type the image tag
- type the style with the height and width
- type the alt text
- if it’s the image that’s used as the thumbnail, i have to get the thumnail url
- get the thumnail size
- enter custom fields for both of those
Everything but the first three can theoretically be automated. So I’ve started working on a new plugin. I just have to enter the url of the large image and the alt text, select the position and whether it’s the thumbnail or not, and the rest is taken care of. I’ve got it inserting the correct image tag with height and width styles and alt text. The rest should be easy enough.
I implemented it all based around the add_meta_box functionality of WordPress. It’s great. This is something I do for every post, it will save me so much time to be able to automate it. Especially when I’m tired. It seems like then it really takes me a long time.
I would like to get it down to basically writing and proofreading. Of course, even with this, images will add some time, but not nearly as much.
I’m not adding any images to this post. I just don’t want to do it the old way anymore.
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