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JSSpamBlock and ImageScaler were both originally one-day projects that turned out to be a bit more popular than I expected. Recently I have neglected to update them at all, but with reports of ImageScaler not working on WordPress 2.3, I decided to put a day aside and make some changes I had been meaning to make for a while.

A new version of ImageScaler was released last week (thanks to David Karlsson for doing most if not all of the work). I still got comments that it didn’t work with WordPress 2.3, so I installed WordPress 2.3 myself to see what the problem is. I didn’t have any issues, but I made some changes to ImageScaler that might make it more likely to work. If you still have problems with WordPress 2.3, let me know. I also made another major change - images hosted on other servers were previously ignored by ImageScaler and left as-is. Now they are mirrored on the server and can be re-sized properly. Also, images are now always resized so that the aspect ratio is preserved. You can download ImageScaler 1.1 from WordPress.

The new version of JSSpamBlock doesn’t need a database. It uses sessions instead. I also cleaned up the code a bit and tested it with WordPress 2.3. You can download JSSpamBlock 2.0 from WordPress.

This blog has been a bit slow since I started school, partly because of the extra work but also partly because the “just for fun” projects I have been working on have gotten larger. At the same time, I hate to neglect my existing projects to start other ones. Given that, I was very lucky to have David Karlsson, who had released a modified version of Image Scaler, agree to incorperate the original functionality back in so that I could make it an official release. The biggest improvement is that you can now set a maximum width and height, which are used to resize all the images. So if your theme breaks with images over 600 pixels in width, Image Scaler is a graceful way to stop this from happening.

You can download Image Scaler 1.0 from WordPress, where it is hosted.