Over the weekend, I wrote my own photo-inserting plugin for Wordpress. I did my own because I keep all my digital photos in one place (and wanted to keep it that way without having all of them publicly available; I also wanted the mechanism to generate and serve lower-resolution (so lower-bandwidth) versions automatically.

The plugin does that: I start my post with something like “” and the plugin takes care of substituting appropriate XHTML markup to retrieve a thumbnail version of the photo (which it also generates), adding on a secret code that’ll keep people from browsing for similarly-named photos (I might not want you to see IMGP0346 or IMGP0348). The generated markup also includes a little Javascript to pop open a larger (but reduced resolution) view in its own window.

Next step: set up a mechanism to handle incoming mail from my Sidekick, so that I can publish a post with photos automatically.

(That’s Gina and I reflected in the big shiny jellybean in Chicago’s Millenium Park.)