Tag Archives: Graphics

Plugin preview: FancyBox Gallery

I don’t have it ready for release yet, but I’m working on a new WordPress plugin which will integrate the FancyBox jQuery plugin with WordPress galleries. FancyBox is a “lightbox” plugin for displaying images in a nice overlay. I have the basics working, but I need to add an options screen, and resolve some CSS issues when it’s used with certain themes.

I hope to have it ready by next week (depends on how much spare time I can find). [...]

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Gravatars

Even before the recent announcement about Gravatar joining Automattic, I had been wanting to turn on comment avatars here. I nabbed Matt’s code, fooled with it a little, and now my comments are Gravatar enabled.

A couple of things that I discovered:

  • I was always getting the ‘default‘ image until I added a ‘rating‘ parameter.
  • The Gravatar server wasn’t serving up all sizes of my image until I re-uploaded it. [...]
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glTail: Realtime Logfile Visualization

glTail Screenshot

This screenshot shows how glTail visualizes a comment spam attack in my configuration.

A few days ago, in my usual daily link browsing, I ran across a link to something called “glTail“, which was described as “realtime logfile visualization”. I’m often keeping an eye on my server logs to catch unusual activity, so I thought I’d give it it a look. [...]

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FontLeech: The Free Font Blog

Since I occassionally dabble with graphics and web design, I tend to collect fonts. But I’m just a hobbiest, not a professional designer, so I usually can’t justify purchasing professional font sets. So I bookmark the occassional “free fonts” website. Which is why I’m glad I found out about FontLeech: The Free Font Blog.

Hey, look — it’s powered by WordPress. Awesome. :)

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