I love the world of Word Press, it’s the perfect opportunity to explore CSS, XML, PHP, AJAX and all the web acronyms you can throw at it. The Mimbo Theme that I’ve been using is almost unrecognizable, I’m thinking of renaming it as my own already but I have problems yanking code of others and calling it my own – still I’ve added a lot of codes to it already. I plan to add a few more of the features from my other favourite theme – the dKret
Anyway – I also wanted to try a very nice plugin called Piclens. It gives an interesting view on photos included in a blog. Most specially if there are a number of them. Go ahead click on the blue play button. Unfortunately – there seem to be a bug that grabs the thumbnail of the last 3 photos instead of the 800×600 version of it 🙁 The bug is that images with extensions JPG are not considered the same as the lower-case jpg.
Piclens work on Flickr, Google Images, Picasa and a few more other image sites. Naturally, I researched on how to incorporate my Gallery2 with Piclens.
As usual, I’m about a year late – it has already been discussed to death in a Menalto Gallery Forum. However, as part of this discussion – I discovered a site that dynamically converts a Gallery2 album to a Flash slideshow. It works well – except that it must be CPU resource hungry as it uses ImageMagick to resize the photos to thumbnail sizes. If the album contains a lot of photos – it may be loading for a while. I found a solution to this however, by using my home PC to do the crunching instead of my WordPress site – so far it works because my site perhaps don’t get that much traffic. A sample of this slideshow is currently being displayed at the bottombars of this site.
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