Contributing code makes projects better

I'm happy to say that Dropplets, the platform powering this blog, now contains code that I contributed. It's a very minor thing, but it adds the significant ability to style posts independently of each other.

The feature was inspired by things like Tumblr's quote feature and WordPress' Post Formats. I wanted to break up the stream of similar-looking posts and have some variety. Not every post requires a headline or a thumbnail.

What $post_status lets you do:

• Use $post_status as a CSS class to style posts differently.
• Use $post_status in a PHP if... else loop to deliver completely different HTML for different post types.
• Use $post_status to make soup.

If you think of some other use, let me know.

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