Terence Eden’s Blog – Regular nonsense about tech and its effects

WordPress has the concept of "Featured Images". They are the images which show up when you share a blog post on social media or, on some themes, as the "hero" image.
How can you quickly and easily find any posts which don't have a featured image?
For this, I use WP CLI - it allows you to run complex WordPress actions and queries using the command line. After you have installed WP CLI you can get started....

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As a little thank-you for being a member of RSS Club I thought I'd show you some trailers for upcoming blog posts.
I use the brilliant Editorial Calendar Plugin to organise all my scheduled blog posts. Here's what you can expect over the next month:...

This has an excellent narrative structure, some beautiful prose, and I just didn't enjoy it.
The story is Sliding Doors meets Same Time Next Year mixed with a distressing amount of domestic violence.
A mother faces a difficult choice. Should she name her child after her abusive and violent husband? In one strand she does, in another she doesn't, and in the third she makes a compromise. We rejoin the story every few years to see how our protagonists...

A few weeks ago, I went on a mad quest to find the newspaper used in 1995's Bottom Hole TV show.
During the episode, Eddie starts reading this newspaper:
Obviously, the "Hammersmith Bugle" is not a real paper and they never ran a headline "No News Shocker". But judging from all the other shots, the prop is based on a real newspaper....