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Wordpress images upload and file dialog in general

admin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:37:54 +0000

As i as was making the previous post on keyboard, i started to put lots of picture that was not from my flickr account. It was to be just on the blog. I started hotlinking to those sites that host the pictures, i was thinking…

Hmmmm. i think i better not do that, the webmaster might be unhappy with it with the “large” number of hits they are going to recieve from my post. I better download them first and upload them to my blog.

I continued to download one jpg, two jpg, and felt tired. This is so wrong. It is just so slow! Not efficient at all! How can i make things go faster? Then i recalled this technique i tried in some other program. How about during the insert image, instead of selecting a file from My Computer, how about i just paste the url to that image? I tried and waited….

BINGO! It works. Basically windows file dialog accepts http connection. How sweet. So with this i continued with my blog post.

Hope this tips helps someone out there.

Just tried this with photoshop. It worked too. Just that it’s slower than what i had hoped for. But it bascially streamlines the process of downloading saving it somewhere first etc. This is especially true for the above task of downloading and uploading images, now it’s streamlined to just one process of uploading.

And yes, i need to fix the layout in this blog.. It sucks.

Wordpress and flickr

admin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:32:50 +0000

Scouring the internet for the most suitable plugin as stated before was quite a pain. Somehow there are not much quality control in plugins, there is just a huge torrent of plugins probably as many iphone apps there are around as well.

But i did managed to sift out tantan-flickr, it was one of the better plugins with quite a large number of user base as well.
tantannoodles.com/toolkit/photo-album/

I managed to do some modification to it to allow non-hardcoded shortcode flickr images templates for albums.
Here are the changes, yymv, basically it resolve issue 96 found here code.google.com/p/photo-album/issues/detail?id=96

pastebin.com/m637c0d27

Quite a bit of changes i wanna make to tantan-flickr, it’s a great plugin and a great place to start typing away at.

Configuring site, configuring wordpress…

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:30:17 +0000

Last i looked at wordpress probably was for version 2.3?
Seems that there is lots of changes since then and lots of new plugins and tools for wordpress. I had lots of problem searching for plugins, there were just too many of them all of which had quite reasonable ratings. Had quite a lot of fun downloading them, though it’s really time consuming.
*edit* Did’nt realise that we can do search for plugins in the admin page of wordpress under Plugins->Add New, even allows you to do installation directly, no more fancy shell access like below.

To me, the fastest way to install these plugin was to through the shell access of your hosting company. This is what I used

First get to the correct directory

wp-content/plugins

[bawls]$ wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin.1.0.zip....
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After getting the zip file, we can use the unzip command
<pre lang="bash">
[bawls]$ unzip wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin.1.0.zip

Pretty easy right? Beats using http, and transferring to the your webhost.

Manaaged to google a good site from mashable.com for all the fun plugins, do check whether it is supported up to 2.7 though

mashable.com/2007/08/16/wordpress-god300-tools-for-running-your-wordpress-blog/

Hope this helps you all getting plugin faster. Going to post a list of plugins that i am currently using and firefox extensions that i find useful.

One of the key features of 2.7 which i figured was very important is|
auto-updater. Yeah, now security holes will be plugged faster and with ease.

Lots of work to be done still, changing themes and further customization. Still lots of cleanup in my hdd as well.