Archive: February, 2009

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Installing ImageMagick & Imagick PHP Extension On Dreamhost

I have recently been installing ImageMagick on my server for use on my other site Celeb O Rama, but because I am on Dreamhost I can’t just install what I like, like you would on a server that you own. So by using the Dreamhost Wiki I installed ImageMagick, but there are no instructions on [...]

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Creating Cropped Thumbnails With ImageMagick

So you’ve just installed ImageMagick, but how do you make your thumbnails in it? Ahhh, a very good question my friend.
Why Not Use Imagick?
Well like my server, not all servers have the Imagick extention for PHP installed. Also I think (personal opinion, shock) the command line is a better way to use ImageMagick. Right let’s [...]

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A Quick Thanks To roguedeals.com

Recently roguedeals came to me asking for help with my plugin The Attached Image & of course I helped as much as I could. It’s always nice to be appreciated for the help I give, but the kindness that roguedeals showed was amazing. Roguedeals bought me The Dark Knight on blu-ray from my Amazon Wish [...]

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Creating A Line Of Images In Your WordPress Theme With The Attached Image

Phew. That’s quite a title. This tutorial was requested by Heather Lickliter yesterday who wanted a line of images similar to that of another theme, namely the Album theme.
Using The Attached Image it’s really easy to do. The hard part is making the custom query for WordPress. I also believe that Heather wants to include [...]

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PHP, GD & Memory Limits Plus How To Install ImageMagick

I thought I’d make this little tid bit of a post for anyone who is interested. I was recently using GD to make an uploader, as I mentioned in the last post. Yesterday someone contacted me saying it produced an error, but the error was blank. Very odd! So I shut it down so I [...]

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Making & Cropping Thumbnails Square Using PHP & GD

Recently I made an image uploader for my other website & I noticed that there isn’t a lot of tutorials around on how to crop thumbnails into squares. This tutorial requires that GD is enabled in PHP, I’m not sure whether you need GD2 or not but I don’t see any reason for it not [...]

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Creating An Options / Admin Page For Your WordPress Plugin

Making a options page for a WordPress plugin isn’t actually that hard. It’s just the page WordPress have on how to do it isn’t exactly the easiest thing to read. So I thought I would show you how I made my options page for The Attached Image. Hopefully it will be easier to understand and [...]

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Delete Row Animation WordPress Style In jQuery + Adding MySQL Delete

Ok, so yesterday I did a tutorial about making a animation similar to that which WordPress uses when you delete posts etc. You know the fade to red & slide up thing… Yep? Good.

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Delete Row Animation WordPress Style In jQuery

Ok, so I don’t want to act like I’m copying or anything, but a few people asked me recently how to make an animation like WordPress has when it deletes a row in it’s tables. Well in Mootools it can be acheved by following this great tutorial by David Walsh. However I was asked how [...]

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Simple jQuery Tutorial – Hiding A Box Of Content

So continuing on with my simple tutorials for people who are just learning to code. Here is a simple jQuery tutorial that will show you how to make the classic box that hides content when a button is clicked, but with a fancy sliding animation. Now if you have experience with jQuery you may say: [...]


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