Another delayed report, late by a day. This time, however, I can deliver ; the current version of the plugin sports the filter system I unsuccessfully tried to implement the week before: While previous versions of the plugin inserted HTML directly into the post (example screenshot), the new iteration only inserts a shortcode containing the attachment ID and a caption (e.g. [[cc:18|some caption]]). The actual markup is then generated when the page is requested. This satisfies use cases in which a blogger wishes to modify media metadata later on, like changing license or alt text.

Less visible for the user, I was able to unify the two saving functions triggered on saving and inserting media and adding a metadata field which holds the exact license URI for every attachment (determined using the Creative Commons API). I recommend checking out the repository.

For the coming week, I will look into post thumbnails, which require no inline markup for purely decorative pictures, like those used at Spreeblick and Breitband. I will also explore alternate content and plugin directories again, as my last attempt regarding that issue was a complete failure. [HTML]: Hypertext Markup Language [ URI]: Uniform Resource Identifier *[API]: Application Programming Interface