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Fixing Greek Filenames for og:image Compatibility in WordPress

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While working with WordPress and social media, I noticed an issue when sharing images on Facebook. Specifically, images with Greek characters in their filenames wouldn’t show up as og:image thumbnails, even though they were properly uploaded.

To address this, I developed a simple WordPress plugin LS Sanitize Greek Filename, that automatically sanitizes Greek filenames. It converts Greek characters into their Latin equivalents, making the filenames compatible with platforms like Facebook, ensuring that images appear correctly when shared.

This plugin is useful for WordPress users dealing with Greek filenames, helping ensure their images display as thumbnails in social media previews. It’s also multisite compatible!

You can find the plugin on https://wordpress.org/plugins/ls-sanitize-greek-filename/

Plugin “All Sites Columns for Multisite”

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The new plugin available at https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-sites-columns-for-multisite/ is Multisite specific for the superadmin and adds the columns:

  • blog_id
  • public
  • archived
  • mature
  • spam
  • deleted
  • site_id

into the ‘Sites’ admin table in Network administration page, allowing this way the superadmin to sort blogs by the desired column and spot sites which are for example deleted by their owners.

The superadmin can hide the Columns, which are useless for her/him via the ‘Screen Options’ tab.

New plugin released: Easy search and use CC-licensed images for WP

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The Creative Commons image search plugin for WordPress we created in Greek School Network is now available as a plugin in WordPress.org with the name “Easy search and use CC-licensed images for WP”

The plugin helps you search millions of free photos using the Creative Commons Catalog API then insert the original image into content or set as featured image very quickly.

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The plugin’s features are:

  • Works in WordPress editor and add a button above the content text area and into the “Add Media” pop-up window.
  • Via a pop-up window, allows searching through millions of images using Creative Commons Catalog API power.
  • Allows filtering by a provider
  • Paginated results
  • Quick insert original image or thumbnail with a link to the image URL
  • Use image as a featured image for the blog post
  • WPML compatible
  • Multisite compatible
  • Translation ready (it’s already translated in Greek)
  • Tested up to WordPress 5.2 with Classic Editor plugin

As intended, we already use the plugin in https://blogs.sch.gr, which hosts more than 50.000 blogs. The plugin is available to all its blogs and users since middle May, who has been using it without any issues reported yet.

Read the complete story behind the creation of this plugin at CC Open Source Blog

 

 

Easy search and use of CC-licensed images for WordPress

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In CC Open Source Blog you can find a detailed post about the plugin we made for easy search and use of CC-licensed images for WordPress, based on the Creative Commons Catalog API.

https://opensource.creativecommons.org/blog/entries/2019-07-24-cc-search-wp-plugin/

There are still many TODO tasks so, if you want to contribute, you can fork the  plugin at Github: https://github.com/lenasterg/wp_ccsearch

 

 

External Group RSS tab extension plugin

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For a Buddypress installation of mine, I needed to add external rss feeds to groups. There is a great plugin for this work called BP External Group Blogs (http://wordpress.org/plugins/external-group-blogs/). Don’t let the name fool you, it supports RSS feed from every source, not just blogs. The plugin give group creators and administrators to attach external RSS feeds to groups. The posts appear within the activity stream for the group.

But I also needed a separate group tab to display those external posts (like the documents tab). So I made a simple extension plugin which does exactly that.

The plugin is called External Group RSS tab extension and you can downloaded from http://wordpress.org/plugins/external-group-rss-tab-extension/