Thu Tu’s Blog

I installed Theme Switcher plugin for Wordpress, making it possible to change the Wordpress theme by clicking the option in the sidebar.
To complement the availability of switching WP themes in my blog, I added corresponding Coppermine themes designed to match WP themes. There was no existing Coppermine theme for my Wordpress theme, Ocadia, so I [...]

Aw shucks. I’ve heard some very nice comments from people about my Coppermine Map Mod. A recent thread, CoppermineR as rival to Flickr / Mappr, in the Coppermine Forums contains some of the most flattering commentary on my mod yet. (FYI, I’m tranzndance in the forum).
Wow! Someone thinks I could contribute a mod that has the [...]

I finally figured out how to get the random image in the sidebar to use the Highslide JS code. Yay!
Since I had to add the js code to my blog template to make the random image work the way I wanted, it means any image in my blog can use the code, too. I’m going [...]

Someone in my webhost forum posted a link to a page with a great example of javascript code coolness: Highslide JS
I have added the code to my gallery. Now, when clicking on the thumbnails, a full size version of the image will show up right on the page, instead of going to the intermediate page [...]

I have added CPM Fetch to my blog. The author, vuud, describes CpmFetch as:
…a PHP object that allows you to easily display random or latest images from your coppermine gallery on external php and html pages… You can draw images (random or otherwise) from the entire gallery, a specific category or a single album.
I’m [...]

People often contact me to ask what mods/hacks I have implemented in my gallery. I also refer people often to tools and Firefox extensions that I use. I decided to create a Notebook for Coppermine, so I can have one place to refer people.

Coppermine Gallery held a contest to get some nice photos in the demo, rather than cheesy stock photos. I entered several of my photos into the contest. It turned out the photo of my cats
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is in the demo.
My sister’s cat’s photo
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is in the demo, too.