Monthly Archives: January 2010

Preview short URL’s in comments

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Yesterday Keith Dsouza wrote in Weblog Tools Collection about the problem with short url in comments which are used by spammers to try to get their comments approved.

The problem with short urls is that in order to know where the link points you have to click on it with the risk of being sent to a malware site or something else. Or you can use another web service to expand the URL and check the destination but you have to open another browser tab, copy the URL from the comment and paste it into the other tab.

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Default Post thumbnails plugin

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With the support for post thumbnails in WordPress 2.9 you can now display a thumbnail image for each post in your site, depending on the theme you are using and if you enabled support for post thumbnails for it.

But if your site already has hundreds of posts, adding a thumbnail image for each one will be a lot of work even if you only want the same image for each old post.

This plugin allows you to specify a default post thumbnail for posts that doesn’t have a thumbnail set.

This plugin requires that you have enabled support for post thumbnails in your theme (you can enable it by adding these 2 lines in your theme functions.php file).

if ( function_exists(‘add_theme_support’) ) {
add_theme_support(‘post-thumbnails’); }

You can select the thumbnail from the images already uploaded to your media library.

You can see more screenshots of this plugin, how to use it and the download link in the Default Post Thumbnails page