Using ImageMagick with WordPress 2.9.1

/ Wordpress / by Paul Robinson / 43 Comments

ImageMagick is an extremely powerful image manipulation alternative to GD. WordPress doesn’t currently support ImageMagick natively, but that isn’t going to stop me showing you how to add ImageMagick’s powerful functionality into WordPress.

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Using jFlow In Your WordPress Theme

/ jQuery, Wordpress / by Paul Robinson / 24 Comments

jFlow is a powerful jQuery plugin used to generate featured slide areas in websites. They are brilliant for featuring important articles in your blog, but integrating it into WordPress can be tricky. This tutorial will explain how to take the difficulty out of it.

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Using Timthumb with Imagemagick

/ PHP / by Paul Robinson / 71 Comments

Timthumb is an extremely popular thumbnail regeneration script, with built in caching. While it is an excellent script, it relies on GD which when combined with large images & a shared server is a disaster. Here is how to adapt timthumbs to work with ImageMagick.

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Custom Thumbnail Sizes Using The Attached Image & Timthumb

/ Wordpress / by Paul Robinson / 0 comments

I promised a while ago I would do this tutorial and I’m ashamed to say I never got round to it. I wouldn’t care it isn’t that complicated so it would have only taken me about 20-30 minutes to write. Oh well, better late than never. To use The Attached Image along with Timthumbs is easy. I am assuming you […]

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Displaying Multiple Post Images With The Attached Image

/ Wordpress / by Paul Robinson / 2 Comments

@nomadone just asked a increadibly good question on my post for the plugin The Attached Image. This is what @nomadone said: Thanks so much this is a really great plugin. I’d say it would be even greater if you could use multiple template tags to pull say first image 1 in the gallery order and display it large and then […]

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Attached Image Update 2.5.8

/ Wordpress / by Paul Robinson / 0 comments

Just a quick post to explain about the update to The Attached Image. I’ve had to postpone releasing the upgrade due to a few problems caused by the main upgrade, taking out all the seperate options & replacing them with a serialized array. Until I fix that, which will probably after Christmas now, I can’t release the new version without […]

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A Guide To WordPress Loops

/ Wordpress / by Paul Robinson / 0 comments

Eric from rougedeals.com gave me an excellent idea a few days ago. He said he hates creating loops for WordPress so it might be a good idea to make a plugin or something to generate loops automatically with an admin page that can be used to select what you want inserted into the loop. I have tried to make it […]

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