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Adding spaces around images in WordPress
Oct
A short tutorial on how to add spaces around images placed into posts and pages.
Write post window
Start from the Dasboard. Create a new post/page or manage an existing post/page.
Click on image to show image editing icons
Clicking on the image will reveal two icons. The left “picture” icon will reveal two settings panels. The red (/) icon will delete the image from the editing area.
Edit image panel
Add appropriate information here. The image margin settings are in the Advanced Settings panel.
Advanced settings panel
More settings are found in the Advanced Settings panel. This panel has fields for setting horizontal and vertical margins around the image.
Image with 4 pixel margins
Enter values in the fields Horizontal space and Vertical space.
Tags: image margins, image settings, image spacing, WordPress
Register for the next Web Weavers Workshop
Oct
The next Web Weavers Workshop will be on Wednesday, October 22.
Our featured sensei will be Lorelle VanFossen.
More informaton and registration here.
Tags: Lorelle VanFossen, WordPress
Anticipating WordPress 2.7
Sep
Otto has written an excellent article on how to prepare your sites for the new Comments Enhancements.
Security advisory for WordPress and other PHP sites
Sep
Web site owners using the WordPress system should upgrade to version 2.6.2 immediately. This important security release adds protection against a SQL Column Truncation hazard and other security issues.
The security risk affects all PHP applications, WordPress included. Particularly vulnerable are those websites allowing open registration. More details about this issue at http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-262/
EventCalendar3 patch for WordPress
Sep
I like EventCalendar3 (EC3) because you can subscribe to the posed calendar events from iCal (OSX), Sunbird or Google calendar. It’s now under the care of Alex Tingle and you’ll find it here: http://wpcal.firetree.net.
Starting from WordPress 2.5 EC3 wouldn’t work properly. There are patched files to make it good again. The issue and a downloaded fix is documented here: http://penguin.firetree.net/pipermail/eventcalendar/2008-September/003289.html
Tags: calendar, EventCalendar3, plugins, WordPress
Not Everyone Needs a Blog
Sep
Most people I know haven’t the desire to stand on a soapbox and blog. All they want is a web site that provides basic information which they can update from time to time. WordPress makes an ideal platform to do this.
The purpose of this article is to show how easy it is to make a simple non-blog web site using WordPress and a few useful plug ins.
Scan your theme for suspect code
Aug
Here is a useful WordPress plug in for alerting you to suspect code in theme files. It’s from builtBackwards. If you’re like me I go exploring and download lots of interesting themes. Most times I don’t have time to examine the files minutely. So, this plug in is really helpful for scanning all the files in a theme.
TAC (Theme Authenticity Checker)
Scan all of your theme files for potentially malicious or unwanted code. Be aware of advertisements or dangerous JavaScript inserted into legitimate themes by third party theme download sites.
Setting the ALT tag in WordPress 2.6
Aug
WordPress 2.6 introduced changes to image and media handling. One thing that might not be easily evident is the matter of ALT tags for images.
susanj at GIRLZWITHURLZ said this:
I also don’t feel good about deleting the caption (although I did that) as WP says that it also serve as the img’s alt tag, and I want to provide alt tags for ADA compliance, not just to be descriptive.
Well, I think you can have your cake and eat it, too.
WP 2.6 provdes another way to ALT an image under the Advanced Setting tab.
In the Advanced Image Settings section under this tab enter your text into the field, Edit Alternate Text. That will do it.
I tested this when I posted my photos of Willie K and Augie T from last night at my photo site: http://www.surfbreak.com.
To create this gallery of nine images I set the thumbnails to 150×100 (original size 640×427). I also set the vertical and horizontal spaces around the image to 3. I did these two items as well as set the ALT text under the Advanced Settings tab. I found the need to set thumbnails in the Advanced Settings tab because when the original is too large, WP does not automatically resize the thumbnail under the Edit Image tab.
The lightbox effect is done with this plugin:
Using WordPress as a CMS
Jul
Thord Daniel Hedengren wrote a good article on Devlounge called Things To Consider When Using WordPress as a CMS.
Permalinks bug in WP 2.6
Jul
Many people have reported that the links to their posts get a 404 not found error message after upgrading to the latest WordPress version, 2.6. This is indeed a verified bug and has been reported. There is an easy fix to apply until the bug is fixed in 2.6.1.
Here is the link to information about the bug and the easy fix.
Tags: bugs, permalinks, WordPress
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