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Images Fixed!

Josh — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:04:13 +0000

So I disabled all of my plugins until I found the culprit, podpress! On one hand images now work correctly, on the other I have to search for another podcasting plugin. And podpress was so perfect, oh well.

Wordpress. Fight!

Josh — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:41:25 +0000

So Wordpress magically started not working correctly with images. When you upload an image to Wordpress it resizes it to three different sizes and let’s you pick which one you want. For some reason it is realizing it’s doing that anymore. By realize I mean it’s resizing them, it just doesn’t list them as options. The problem with this is that things use this:

wp_get_attachment_thumb_url

That should return the url of the smallest image, the thumbnail. If there isn’t a thumbnail it should return ‘false’, instead it’s returning the url of the original image size. So I had to rig it up real quick and do a str_replace() to replace ‘.jpg’ with ‘-150×150.jpg’. This sucks because it still isn’t working on the backend.

If you have any clue how to fix this email me, josh at -getridofme-golgotron.com. I don’t have much faith in anyone answering my post on the Wordpress Support forums, but you never know.

Podcasts, oh my!

Josh — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:33:08 +0000

So I downloaded all of the top 25 Video Game podcasts as ranked on iTunes, even the WoW ones. I’m going to listen to them throughout the week and see what happens.

Stupid iTunes

Josh — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:04:29 +0000

I for one think iTunes is a big piece of shit. The 64bit version runs alright, but the 32bit version is a piece of crap. Their whole navigation scheme is wonky, and the UI is absolute crap. Apple is a company with great designers but horrible UI guys, I really don’t understand how they think a consumer will use a product. I’ll also lay some blame on the architect of iTunes, whoever that cocksucker may be.

So I’m updating the podcast, and iTunes (on their server side) is randomly breaking. The feed is valid, I made sure, yet somehow it loses pictures and doesn’t update. It’ll have a picture on the iphone version, and when you do a search, but when you go to the landing it’s broken. I’ll ping it to make it update, and it doesn’t do anything. I get confirmation I pinged it, but nothing happens. They also don’t have any real support, heck there isn’t even a control panel for your podcast. Everything you do is done through the rss feed itself which is quite ingenious, but absolutely maddening when it’s not working. I hope episode 4 of GolgoCast actually makes it up there, episode 3 was up for 2 days before mysteriously disappearing. I finally got it back up, but now episode 4 hasn’t shown up yet.

Great.