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New CSS for aligning images, block elements and captions

Miriam Schwab | August 19, 2008 | 15 Comments
I was recently working on a WordPress site, and I just couldn't get my images to left-align with the text so that the text would wrap around it. It was wrapping in the text editor in the admin, but on the front end the image stuck out of the top of the text. Rebecca, our ... View Post

Automatic thumbnail image resizing options

Miriam Schwab | June 1, 2008 | 8 Comments
I manage a few blogs that use thumbnail images to spruce up the appearance of the site, and make it more enjoyable for readers. As we've discussed here in the past, an efficient method for adding thumbnails to your ... View Post

Great tips for finding and modifying images for your blog

| February 7, 2008 | 0 Comments
Oak Innovations has a great guide to finding and editing images for use on your blog. The guide goes through copyright issues, licenses, and sources for finding images, and then introduces Picnik, an online image editor. Since reading this ... View Post

Get rid of bandwidth image theft once and for all

| January 8, 2008 | 0 Comments
Herself Webtools gives us the recipe for a .htaccess file that prevents hotlinking images on your site. Get rid of bandwidth image theft once and for all View Post

Changing where WordPress saves your uploaded images and files

Miriam Schwab | November 29, 2007 | 1 Comment
In my previous post on using thumbnails with WordPress' custom fields feature, I explained a way to change where WordPress saves images and files you upload from the Write Post/Page page. Generally, any images or files you upload while ... View Post

Images, thumbnails and custom fields in WordPress

Miriam Schwab | November 26, 2007 | 21 Comments
I've learned a lot about custom fields since I posted about programming thumbnails into your WordPress theme with custom fields, thanks to everyone's comments here and on weblog tools collection, who referred to my post. I decided to collect all the links posted in the comments here so that we all have ... View Post

Giving each WordPress post a thumbnail, and display the thumbnail on the home page

Miriam Schwab | November 21, 2007 | 169 Comments
// You may encounter situations where you need to automatically display a thumbnail or image of some kind that will link to posts. Here's an example of this kind of situation: ... View Post

Displaying Flickr images in sidebar or footer of WordPress blog

Miriam Schwab | August 30, 2007 | 3 Comments
We were building a site where we wanted a strip of flickr images from a specific flickr group, or with specific tags, to show up in the footer, and to update automatically as new images became available on the flickr group or with those keywords. The best solution seemed to be ... View Post

TechSmith’s SnagIt now publishes directly to WordPress.com

| August 29, 2007 | 0 Comments
For those of who aren't familiar with it, SnagIt is an amazing screen capture tool with a slew of features. The creators of SnagIt, TechSmith, have now released their free SnagIt blogging-output accessories. According to their ... View Post

Make sure images aren’t too wide for your blog

| April 12, 2007 | 0 Comments
If you insert an image in your post that is too wide for your blog layout, it will break the design. The iMax width plugin sets a maximum width for photos. This is useful for the following reasons:
  • It won't allow you or other users to inadvertently break your
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