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Picasa2Coppermine Project

Thu Tu Koelling — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:15:46 +0000

I just uploaded to Google Code the source code of Picasa2Coppermine. This makes it possible to add a button in Picasa that when clicked will upload selected files into a Coppermine Photo Gallery running version 1.5. CPG 1.5 has not been officially released yet, so it is only available via subversion checkout.

The ability to import [...]

How to Add RSS Feed Link to archive.php for WordPress

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:11:39 +0000

archive.php (in the WordPress theme folder) is the file that handles the output of posts grouped by categories, tags (in WP 2.3) and by dates. Since I have a wide variety of topics, I figured it would be helpful to provide feeds specific to a reader’s particular interest(s). The problem was I didn’t know how [...]

How to Display All Blog Posts

Thu Tu Koelling — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:30:20 +0000

For reasons I will explain in another post about Linked Custom Search Engines, I wanted to generate a page that would include all of my posts in their entirety. There didn’t seem to be a ready-made solution. I found a plugin but it didn’t show all posts the way I wanted. This is different from [...]

How I Create Widgets for WordPress

Thu Tu Koelling — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:04:40 +0000

I haven’t been able to find clear instructions on how to add widgets to WordPress. This widget tutorial for developers was as close as I could get, but it applies to the Widget Plugin before WordPress included Widgets in v 2.2.

I’ve figured out a system that has worked for me. I can’t say that [...]

WordPress Widget: Spread Firefox

Thu Tu Koelling — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:30:37 +0000

I coded a widget to help Spread Firefox via a WordPress widget. Here is the code:

function wp_widget_firefox($args) { extract($args); ?> <?php if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE') !== false) {?> <?php echo $before_widget; ?> <?php echo $before_title; ?> <?php _e('Try Firefox'); ?> <?php echo $after_title; ?> <ul><li> <a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=YOUR_ID&t=210"><img border="0" alt="Firefox 2" title="Firefox 2" src="http://sfx-images.mozilla.org/affiliates/Buttons/firefox2/firefox-spread-btn-1b.png"/></a> </li></ul> <?php [...]

How to Minimize Duplicate Content in WordPress Blog

Thu Tu Koelling — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:48:31 +0000

After reading this post at Google’s Webmaster Group, I was inspired to find out how to stop displaying full content on pages where posts were listed in categories, archives, etc. I am not so concerned about duplicate content as much as I don’t like for people to find a result in a category page but [...]

Added Image Scroller Based on iTunes

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:10:33 +0000

rphMedia over at the Coppermine forums has offered a mod called Image Scroller – based on iTunes. It looks so cool that I couldn’t help but implementing it at my Take Thu gallery and my blog (at the bottom of the blog’s homepage).

For those who want an includable version of flow.htm, create a file [...]

Using Search Everywhere Plugin to Search Jerome Keyword Tags

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:25:37 +0000

I installed the Search Everywhere Plugin in the hopes of enabling WordPress search to find posts that have been tagged with Jerome Keywords Plugin. Alas, it didn’t have that capability built-in, nor could I find an available solution, so I tweaked the Search Everywhere code to search tags for results. I based the code modifications [...]

Google AJAX Search Results in WordPress

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:23:35 +0000

Not even a day had passed since I figured out How to Integrate Google Custom Search Engine Results into WordPress Blog Template and I figured another way to integrate search results into WordPress.

As described at the site, “Google AJAX Search API lets you put Google Search in your web pages with JavaScript.”

One of [...]

How to Integrate Google Custom Search Engine Results into WordPress Blog Template

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:35:33 +0000

I was checking out the control panel for my blog’s Google Custom Search Engine and saw something under the Code tab that I hadn’t noticed before: Search box and search results code for your website

I was intrigued at the thought of having the search results show up with my blog’s theme. After completing my [...]

WordPress Widgets

Thu Tu Koelling — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:01:22 +0000

This weekend, I decided to edit my custom sidebar code to be compatible with WordPress Widgets, which is:

designed to provide a simple way to arrange the various elements of your sidebar content (known as “widgets”) without having to change any code.

WordPress v. 2.2 has the capability built into the core code. Earlier versions [...]

Internet Explorer Horizontal Scrollbar Covers Last Line

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:12:24 +0000

Oh My Friggin Goodness. Internet Explorer makes me so mad.

Just to see how things looked in IE, I randomly checked a blog post that contained code, and one of the lines of code was obscured by a horizontal scrollbar! I compared the post in Firefox. It turned out the particular line of code was [...]

How to Add Commenting to WordPress Page Template

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:40:21 +0000

If you want to enable commenting on a WordPress page (as opposed to a post), you would need to add the following in the theme’s page.php file, which is the default template for pages:

<?php comments_template(); ?>

If you created a custom template file, you would need to put the code in that file also.

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How to Switch Title Tokens in WordPress

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:14:23 +0000

I wanted to switch my blog’s title tag to go from:

Thu Tu’s Blog > Post Title

Post Title | Thu Tu’s Blog

It turned out that it wasn’t as simple as switching the tokens around in the theme’s header.php file.

I did a search and found the solution here.

When I copied and [...]

My Photo Feed for Google Photos Screensaver

Thu Tu Koelling — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:56:03 +0000

Yesterday, I found out in a Coppermine forum thread called RSS feed of pics for Google Screensaver that Google Photos Screensaver can show photos from a feed. This appealed to me because I currently use a photo screensaver but it is limited to files on the hard drive. By having a feed from my gallery, [...]