John Saddington, of 8BIT and WPDaily, announced today his [new] Kickstarter project to create an app that will allow people to add filtered images directly onto their WordPress site. So why yet another [insert most recent app name]_gram app? Why one specific to WordPress?
The WordPress.org has over 20,000 plugins available to download. Some awesome, some not so awesome. I also find the WordPress.org search functions to not be very helpful, where if it adopted more of a Google style search function, it could be much more practical for people to use. However, I’ve scoured the plugin repository and [...]
The Drag & Drop Featured Image plugin is a way to easily set the featured image of a post. Using this plugin will help bypass the need to help upload an image, then manually set it as the featured image. However, by using the drag and drop feature, you have to take one extra step [...]
Here is a quick and easy way to extract the URL source for the thumbnail [of the featured img] of your post. Inside the Loop Outside the Loop If you also needed to get the height and width of the thumbnail, you can use the follow lines of code: You can read more on the [...]
Here is a pretty simple statement that will check your post to see if there is more than one image attached. If you want to check the post to see if it has any image attachments at all, try this:
I find it quite annoying when I have any number of images beyond 2, where I want to insert all of them, but not using the gallery shortcode. Faster Image Insert This plugin has a number of features that change how the default media manager handles attachments. No thickbox, using metabox with zero interface blocking, [...]
Often I find myself forgetting to click on “featured image” when I’m writing a post. But I know I need one because it makes the world go ’round for WP Force. What’s the solution? Automatically set the featured image. Here’s a quick snippet of code you can throw into your functions.php file that will your [...]
A couple days ago, I got an alert from my webhost that they had rebooted my server (I run Storm on Demand by Liquidweb). Their 24/7 monitoring team noticed high memory and CPU usage, and acted quickly to resolve the issue. I had no idea anything was happening, this all happened behind the scenes. So [...]
Have you been looking for a plugin that gives you functionality similar to the slideshow on sites like Mashable? The Matrix Slideshow plugin offers that functionality, sort of. Currently, the plugin is limited to a one-time slideshow use. You can build the slideshow and use that slideshow once. I reached out to Ravi Mareedu, one [...]
Jonathan Dingman is a passionate blogger who loves writing about WordPress news, reporting on events, theme releases, awesome plugins, and more. He started using WordPress in 2004 and ran the first WordCamp NYC in 2008.