Posts Tagged ‘marsedit’

Jun 06
2010

I’ll be the first to admit that I get a little obsessed with projects that aren’t really going to improve my life all that much. Those projects can be fun to blog about, though, so I present you my brief obsession for this Sunday afternoon.

You may have noticed on this blog that some posts have header images, and some don’t, and that they get styled differently based on whether there’s an image or not. It pulls the header images from one of two places: the post thumbnail (which I can’t edit from MarsEdit) or the first image in the post content with a class of “headerimg”…

Jun 06
2010

I’ve just started using MarsEdit again (in combination with my TextMate blogging bundles), but I’ve run into a couple of issues. First, I can’t assign thumbnails to my posts directly. This is the result of poor API support in WordPress for handling attachments on a specific post, and not Daniel’s fault at all. Fortunately, I’ve set my blog up to search for an image with a specific class, remove it from the post and use it as the post header if a thumbnail isn’t assigned. That works…