Wordpress: Category Images Plugin
On the Wardman Wire I’ve just introduced a Wordpress Plugin called “Category Images”. It gives you the ability to “brand” each category (or some of the categories) on your blog automatically with a small image file.
I’m using small images to distinguish the different people writing on the blog, and as a “badge” for their columns. Each article displayed singly carries a double version.
The reason I looked at it is quite amusing.
Mike Rouse wrote a column about “Starting your own TV Show“, and linked to Obama Girl, who came back and left a comment, but thought the article was from me.
Now, I sure that I could bring myself to enjoy the attentions of Obama Girl when I am in the US - but really I need to make it clear who is the author of the article.
Hence this plugin. It took a bit of tweaking, but is now working reasonably well.
And hopefully next time Mike will get the admiration (and perhaps the date) he deserves.
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As an aside: that shows it is worth linking to well-known blogs as well as lesser-known ones.Another way to catch a blogger’s attention is to apply a Technorati Tag of their name to your post if it should be of interest (e.g., matt+wardman). Many bloggers monitor their tag or have a Google alert set up to catch these references.
One caveat: if you use a blogger’s tag inappropriately, they are very unlikely to come back. Do it, but get it right.
Categories: Internet / Technical, Political Blogging, Wordpress Plugin
You are a more honest man than me Matt…
Which bit are you accusing of being honest…
(I haven’t told you who commented on YOUR column!)
If Obama girl confused me with someone else, I think I’d keep her in a state of ignorance…
Tell me more - good or bad?!
Kate Moss? Sienna Miller?
I like the way you’ve implemented that plugin… would have been nice to see a link to it though
- I guess I’ll google it.
btw, it’s really hard to see the links within your post. Perhaps put a background color or underline on them?
Nat,
The link is here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-images/
The implementation is a bit fiddly but worth it.
(I couldn’t find it when I wrote the article).
Matt W
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