Remove WordPress Featured Image from Galleries

Quite often I have had posts with galleries where I want to use a Featured Image to show the post, perhaps on the homepage. The problem with this is because the featured image is attached to the post it will automatically show up in the posts gallery. You can exclude this but there is no UI for this yet and therefore I needed a solution.

This piece of code provides just this, in that whichever image is set as the featured image for a post with be automatically excluded from the posts gallery.

WordPress Self-Hosted Plugin Update API

After some discussion at WordCamp UK this weekend regarding functions either in a parent child theme relationship or using a plugin, either way we need a way to update this easily like the WordPress auto update functionality. This solutions seems to enable you to do this hosting the updates yourselves – very much like Gravity Forms must do.