Adding spaces around images in WordPress

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

Adding non-spammable email address

I’ve been customizing a template for a website and am looking for a way to include an email address that can’t be found by a bot and spammed. I do not want to use something kludgy like “write us at admin (at) webweavers.org.” I have been trying to follow the instructions on the WordPress site on how to do this, and they cryptically mention the following:

“You can use a free online encoder to encode your email address or use the antispambot() function built into WordPress:

<?php echo antispambot(get_the_author_email()); ?>"

There are no instructions on how to access this
functionality. Do I put it in my header?
My footer? Anywhere I like?
What precisely am I supposed to write?
Where do I put in the actual address?

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Tags: contact, email, spam

Permalinks bug in WP 2.6

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