Auto Blogger Plugin Updates & Anarchy TV Playlist Feature Complete

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Major improvements shipped today for the Auto Blogger WordPress plugin including automatic media descriptions, featured image selection, and proper media association. Also completed the play-all-videos feature for Anarchy TV with dynamic YouTube playlist functionality.

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Productive development day with significant updates across two major projects. Let me break down what got shipped today.

Auto Blogger WordPress Plugin Enhancements

First up, several key improvements to the Auto Blogger WordPress plugin. The biggest addition is automatic media description generation – the AI now creates titles and summaries for uploaded media, making content management much cleaner. The plugin also automatically selects one of the post images as the featured image, and properly associates all uploaded media with their respective posts. This makes cleanup and maintenance significantly easier going forward.

Screenshot of Auto Blogger source code open in VS Code
Auto Blogger plugin source code in VS Code

Another quality-of-life improvement: I created a custom Elementor theme for blog posts. No more ugly white backgrounds – the blog posts now have proper styling and visual appeal.

Anarchy TV Gets Playlist Functionality

Over on the Anarchy TV website, I completed a major feature that’s been in development – the “play all videos” button. This creates a dynamic YouTube playlist from all the videos scraped from our Discord channel, allowing users to passively consume content instead of actively clicking through individual videos.

PlayCanvas Editor showing scripts rigged to the new play-all button
PlayCanvas Editor – rigging scripts for the play-all videos button

The playlist player includes full-screen support with a clean control strip at the bottom featuring pause, skip forward, skip back, and eject buttons. It also displays who posted each video and the post date for proper attribution.

Screenshot of fullscreen playlist playback with control strip
Full-screen playlist player with control strip showing video attribution

The system is powered by JSON data structures scraped from the Anarchy Arcade Multimedia Discord channel, which feeds all the video metadata to Anarchy TV.

Screenshot of JSON structure for YouTube videos scraped from Discord
JSON structure of scraped YouTube videos from the Anarchy Arcade Discord channel

Both projects represent significant steps forward in automation and user experience. The Auto Blogger improvements streamline content management workflows, while the Anarchy TV playlist feature opens up new consumption patterns for community-generated video content.

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