(Now Updated for YouTube V3) Here's the code:  You Tube Playlist with Thumbnails   Over the past week, a client asked me to create a page on their website that showed a YouTube playlist with thumbnails.  The catch was that this page is hosted on Weebly, so it means 1) I can't install a simple Wordpress Plugin (like WonderPlugin Gallery - which is awesome at showing YouTube Playlist by-the-way) and 2) it has to be done in pure JS and 3) had to be in the context of a prebuilt body.  So y...

So having played with WP 3.5, I've come to the conclusion that the media management is still lacking.  I love the new way to create image galleries; and I really like the way you can resize/scale images directly on the image detail page.   But I was really hoping for a way to checkout/checkin images.  Currently, you have to delete the image and upload it (with the same name) if you want to change an image.  This probably doesn't affect most people, but a lot of development I do is done with stor...

I rarely look forward to new releases of products because it usually means I get to spend weeks trying to do a diff and merge with any customizations I've created:  ie, more work for me.    But I have to admit, I'm pretty excited to see how WP re-did their media management.  Being used to hardcore/expensive content management systems, I always found how WP handles media to be lacking.  So we'll see what they've done and how better it'll make your life.   The only pitfall I can see wou...

What the heck.  When I first created this site, I mainly did it to show off the easy and quickness of Wordpress.  So far, I have applied 3 themes to this site and it takes me all of 1 hour to totally change the look/feel.  Because I'm becoming more and more of a believer that Wordpress is a major player in the quality (and free) "CMS" realm, I figured I'd blog about it.  I'll probably focus more on WooCommerce and Wordpress as those are the ones I mostly deal with.   Consider this my ...