A Wordpress plugin for BlogDesk users

If you are a user of an offline editor called BlogDesk, then you might find a WordPress plugin that I have created useful. I created the WordPress plugin because I use BlogDesk as my offline blog editor.

Several weeks back, I decided to take a look at freely available offline blog editors. Of the several blog editors I have considered I chose BlogDesk because it simply has most of the features that I want in an offline blog editor.

One of the features I really found very cool was it’s ability to preprocess an image. It allows a lot of stuff including putting a drop shadow on the image you want to put on your post. There is one BlogDesk feature though that I simply would want to be replaced. That is the way it handles images in the posted article.

When you finished your post and send it to your remote WordPress blog, BlogDesk includes a height and width attribute on the image tag. There’s actually nothing wrong about it but I have just gotten to rely on setting those height and width attributes on my WordPress theme’s stylesheet file.

It sorts of defeat the purpose of having an offline editor if after writing an post on BlogDesk I would still have to login to my blog and manually remove the height and image settings.

This gave me an opportunity to hit two birds with one stone as I was actually thinking of learning how to create a WordPress plugin but didn’t know what type of plugin to do.

So after a week of learning the basics of WordPress plugins I came out with the “TxTu Set Image Class” WordPress Plugin. I know, I know, it’s exactly not a creative name but hey I got the plugin to work and I started using it.

Since I thought there might be some others who might find it useful, I decided to make it freely available under the GNU GPL v2 license (the same license WordPress use).

Well off to my blogging adventures and I hope some of you would find the plugin useful.