Tag Archives: images

Bug Chasing

By Dougal | Published: March 7, 2010

Okay, so in my post about Code Spelunking I mentioned about how working on a project can lead you to explore the code because you need to become more familiar with how the code works. But it can also lead you to explore the code to figure out why code doesn’t work. In this particular case, I spent many hours puzzling over why something didn’t work correctly, chasing down the root cause, and eventually finding a bug in the WordPress core. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged API, bugfix, bugfixes, Bugs, code, Development, filters, html, kses, PHP, Programming, trac, webdev, WordPress, XHTML, XML | 13 Comments

WordPress Code Spelunking

By Dougal | Published: February 18, 2010

Earlier today, I finished up a WordPress plugin that I’ve been working on for a client. Without divulging too many details, I’ll say that it wasn’t a huge project, nor was it overly complicated, but it was interesting. . [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged API, code, codex, core, Development, exploration, functions, http class, learning, phpdoc, Plugins, scheduling, simplexml, WordPress, wp cron, wp_http, wp_insert_post, wp_upload_bits, xpath | 14 Comments

Post thumbnails changes

By Dougal | Published: December 11, 2009

If you visited my site in the last 9 hours and found it displaying nothing but an error message, my apologies. It’s part of the danger of running my site out of the WordPress SVN trunk (i.e., beta code), and taking advantage of new features.

My site automatically pulls in the latest code changes from SVN at midnight. And it seems that sometime yesterday, all of the post_image_* functions were renamed to post_thumbnail_*, and I failed to wrap one of my function calls with function_exists() protection. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Beta, downtime, features, functions, Themes, thumbnails, WordPress | 8 Comments

WordPress 2.9 Media Embedding

By Dougal | Published: October 20, 2009

As promised in my previous post on WordPress 2.9 features, this post will be a demonstration of the super easy media embeds coming in WordPress 2.9. What I find particularly interesting and useful about the new embedding feature, and oEmbed in particular, is that it is truly multimedia. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged content, embeds, features, Flickr, Media, multimedia, oembed, shortcode, videos, WordPress | 35 Comments

WordPress 2.9 Features

By Dougal | Published: October 16, 2009

This site is now running on WordPress 2.9-rare (which is our “pre-alpha” designation, for those of you who don’t know). WP 2.9 is in “feature freeze”, which means no new features will be considered for this version, and the developers will concentrate on finishing up the existing new features and any outstanding bugs. So far, it appears that all of my plugins are working just fine.

The main new features I’ve actually seen so far are the addition of the “Post Thumbnail” box in the writing screen, the new “trash” status for posts, pages, and comments, and the image editor in the Media Library. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged alpha, Beta, cms, content management, content types, Development, embeds, features, Flickr, hulu, Media, Metadata, oembed, Plugins, qik, testing, Themes, thumbnails, viddler, vimeo, viper, viper007bond, Widgets, WordPress, youtube | 82 Comments

WordPress theme licensing

By Dougal | Published: July 2, 2009

There is finally an official answer to the question of whether or not WordPress themes must “inherit” the GPL license that WordPress itself uses. Matt asked the Software Freedom Law Center to examine the WordPress source and how themes fit in. The final, official answer to whether themes must be GPL? Yes and no. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged copyright, CSS, freedom, freedomzero, gpl, JavaScript, Law, Legal, license, licensing, PHP, Themes, WordPress | 13 Comments

Plugin: Fancybox Gallery 0.3.1

By Dougal | Published: June 15, 2009

I have updated my Fancybox Gallery plugin to version 0.3.1.

Fancybox Gallery will automatically turn your photo galleries generated by the WordPress ‘gallery’ shorttag into a dynamic lightbox.

New in version 0.3 is the ability to navigate to the next/previous image while in lightbox mode. Another change is that this version requires jQuery version 1.3.2, and thus you’ll need to be using WordPress 2.8. . [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged dynamic, fancybox, galleries, Gallery, jquery, photos, Plugins, showcase, WordPress | 17 Comments

FancyBox Gallery 0.1

By Dougal | Published: January 26, 2009

I decided to go ahead a release my FancyBox Gallery plugin as-is. Version ~~0.1~~ 0.2 is very bare-bones: there are no options that you can set. Once you activate the plugin, thumbnails generated by the standard WordPress gallery shortcode will be handled by FancyBox. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged fancybox, galleries, Gallery, jquery, lightbox, overlay, photos, plugin, Plugins, WordPress | 12 Comments

Plugin preview: FancyBox Gallery

By Dougal | Published: January 21, 2009

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). [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged fancybox, galleries, Gallery, Graphics, jquery, lightbox, photos, plugin, Plugins, WordPress | 25 Comments

Easy Gravatars 1.2

By Dougal | Published: March 6, 2008

Earlier today, I released Easy Gravatars version 1.2. The only change (besides confirming that works in WordPress 2.5, currently in beta, due out next week) is that when installed under WordPress 2.5 or newer, it will use the new core get_avatar() function to generate the image tag. And since get_avatar() is a pluggable function, other plugins could conceivably use it to generate avatar icons from other services, and Easy Gravatars would then use the new service too.

If that doesn’t make sense to you, don’t sweat it. [...]