MacLife has an article on the scriptable images processing systems, or sips. sips is very powerful, but it also has a really simple syntax. To duplicate my one-liner for imageworsener, all you would need is: sips –resampleHeight 33 *.png
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SomaFM On the off chance you haven’t come across this, Soma is the best site for streaming electronic music out there. They also have some fun novelty stuff, and do great Christmas streams. The secret to making great coffee revealed A Slate article on the pour-over coffee-brewing method. Londoners, this is how Monmouth makes their […]
Sharing content on social networks without Javascript
I’m often asked how add share links without using javascript (for example, in an HTML email or in a PDF). Here are the URLs for the most common ones: Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url={articleUrl}&description={articleTitle} LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url={articleUrl}&title={articleTitle}&summary={articleSummary}&source={articleSource} Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?s=100&p[title]={articleTitle}&p[summary]={articleSummary}&p[url]={articleUrl} Twitter: http://twitter.com/share?text={articleSummary}&url={articleUrl} Google+: https://plus.google.com/share?url={articleUrl} Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/share?v=3&u={articleUrl}&t={articleTitle} Mail to: mailto:?subject={articleTitle}&body={articleSummary}%20(full%20article%20at%20{articleUrl}) Replace {articleUrl}, {articleTitle}, and {articleSummary} with the appropriate content for your […]
Resize all images in a folder with imageworsener
I used to use imagemagick for resizing in the command line, but imageworsener has a much cleaner syntax. Use this to resize the height all pngs to 33 pixels: for i in $( ls *.png); do imagew -height 33 $i re_$i; done If you’re on Mac OS X, you can install imageworsener through Homebrew.
Add a class to the first and last items of a WordPress menu
If you’re using the WordPress dynamic menus, you can use the following code to add first-menu-item and last-menu-item to the appropriate menu items. Add the following to your theme’s functions.php: function add_first_and_last($output) { $output = preg_replace(‘/class=”menu-item/’, ‘class=”first-menu-item menu-item’, $output, 1); $output = substr_replace($output, ‘class=”last-menu-item menu-item’, strripos($output, ‘class=”menu-item’), strlen(‘class=”menu-item’)); return $output; } add_filter(‘wp_nav_menu’, ‘add_first_and_last’); Via Kuroi […]