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First OS Contribution Goes Live

My first contribution to someone else’s open source project has been accepted and gone live! To be fair, it was my first attempt at contributing and I can assure you it won’t be my last.

The project is the WordPress plugin List Category Post. We found ourselves using this a lot on client sites but for a number of reasons, many of the articles we are generating for clients don’t use the Featured Image functionality (which is what drives the thumbnails in this tool). So, I submitted a pull request that modified the thumbnail so that if Featured Image is not found, the thumbnail would be generated from the first image found in the body of the post.

The project maintainer picandocodigo extended this even further by triggering the use of the found image only when a user adds parameter of force_thumbnail=true (or yes) is added to the shortcode or function call.

You can see the commit notes here: https://github.com/picandocodigo/List-Category-Posts/commit/464079ce456141e51a361c270f9063dcf6e498d0

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Of course our open source project InfusionSoftDotNet is still alive…

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