The documentation for the $comment_approved argument was incomplete in a few places in WordPress core, so I’ve submitted a patch: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/33903

I (along with Brandon Kraft) debugged a problem in WordPress trunk that was causing comment notification emails to be sent for comments that had been caught as spam.

The resulting bug report and patch are at https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/33587#comment:30

I’ve posted a code snippet I used to sideload images from Flickr into WordPress, specifically for http://foodirl.com/ I originally stored all of my images on Flickr because I started the blog on Tumblr, knowing that I would move it later (which I did, to Crowd Fusion and then to WordPress).

	<?php
	/**
	* Retroactively sideload images referenced from Flickr.
	*/
	$flickr_sideload_media_id = null;
	function flickr_sideload_get_media_id( $media_id ) {
	global $flickr_sideload_media_id;
	$flickr_sideload_media_id = $media_id;
	}
	function flickr_sideload_init() {
	global $flickr_sideload_media_id;
	if ( isset( $_GET['do_flickr_sideload'] ) ) {
	add_action( 'add_attachment', 'flickr_sideload_get_media_id' );
	require_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/media.php' );
	require_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/file.php' );
	require_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/image.php' );
	$offset = 0;
	$limit = 10;
	while ( $posts = get_posts( 'posts_per_page=' . $limit . '&offset=' . $offset ) ) {
	$offset += $limit;
	foreach ( $posts as $post ) {
	if ( preg_match_all( '/(?<atag><a[^>]+href="(?<href>[^"]+)"[^>]*>)\s*(?<imgtag><img[^>]+src="(?<src>[^"]+)"[^>]+>)\s*(<\/a>)?/i', $post->post_content, $images, PREG_SET_ORDER ) ) {
	$post_content = $post->post_content;
	foreach ( $images as $image ) {
	if ( strpos( $image['src'], '.flickr.com/' ) !== false ) {
	$description_matches = array();
	$description = '';
	if ( ! empty( $image['atag'] ) ) {
	preg_match_all( '/title="(?<title>[^"]+)"/i', $image['atag'], $description_matches, PREG_SET_ORDER );
	}
	if ( ! empty( $description_matches ) ) {
	$description = $description_matches[0]['title'];
	}
	else {
	preg_match_all( '/alt="(?<alt>[^"]+)"/i', $image['imgtag'], $description_matches, PREG_SET_ORDER );
	if ( ! empty( $description_matches ) ) {
	$description = $description_matches[0]['alt'];
	}
	}
	$image_html = media_sideload_image( $image['src'], $post->ID, $description );
	preg_match_all( '/width="(?<width>[0-9]+)"/', $image['imgtag'], $width_matches, PREG_SET_ORDER );
	preg_match_all( '/height="(?<height>[0-9]+)"/', $image['imgtag'], $height_matches, PREG_SET_ORDER );
	if ( ! empty( $width_matches ) && ! empty( $height_matches ) ) {
	$size = array( $width_matches[0]['width'], $height_matches[0]['height'] );
	}
	else {
	$size = 'full';
	}
	if ( ! empty( $image['atag'] ) ) {
	$image_html = wp_get_attachment_link( $flickr_sideload_media_id, $size );
	}
	else if ( $size != 'full' ) {
	$image_html = str_replace( '<img ', '<img width="' . $size[0] . '" height="' . $size[1] . '" ', $image_html );
	}
	$post_content = str_replace( $image[0], $image_html, $post_content );
	}
	}
	if ( $post_content != $post->post_content ) {
	wp_update_post( array( 'ID' => $post->ID, 'post_content' => $post_content ) );
	}
	}
	}
	}
	die;
	}
	}
	add_action( 'init', 'flickr_sideload_init' );

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Stick it in mu-plugins and then load wp-admin/?do_flickr_sideload. It doesn’t have lots of error checking, but it worked flawlessly for FoodIRL’s 160+ posts.

Reported a drag-and-drop upload bug in WordPress 4: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/29689

A patch I submitted to allow plugins to filter which comment metadata gets included in WordPress export files was committed and included in WordPress 4.0: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/28745

Reported a WordPress core bug discovered by my wife:

Image caption disappears if images are rearranged immediately after adding the caption.

WP_HTTP_IXR_Client strips query string from server URL: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/26947

A new plugin and theme for Keyring users

I’ve posted a new plugin that works with Keyring Social Importers to allow you to import activity from Reddit and a lifestreamy theme to show off all of the data that Keyring Social Importers can transfer to WordPress. Soon, you’ll be able to back up the entire Internet to a WordPress blog.

Version 3 of Formategory is out now; like the recent Inline Preview release, it’s mainly to update the screenshots for WordPress 3.8, but it also incorporates some performance fixes that have been committed over the past year.

I’ve updated Inline Preview for WordPress 3.8. No functionality changes, but the plugin’s UI fits in better with the rest of the admin, and I fixed one bug with the preview overlapping the post editor.