Showing 8 results for the month of March, 2008.
I’m working little-by-little towards using PowerShell as my primary command shell instead of cmd.exe. I’m still a ways away, but PowerShell Community Extensions takes me a bit closer to my goal. Here’s a description from their web site:
PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX) is aimed at providing a widely useful set of additional cmdlets, providers, aliases, filters, [...]
Dougal Campbell upgraded his Easy Gravatars plugin to version 1.2 to use the new get_avatars function in WordPress 2.5. He hasn’t integrated my changes into his plugin so I’m releasing mine as a dot-release of his.
My changes to his v1.2 release are the same as my changes to his previous releases:
Improved admin page layout with [...]
I host several domains on my server, including dpotter.net. Recently I added another domain for a friend who is starting her own business. I thought I remembered all the steps to provide both web site service and email service, but there was one I missed that I don’t remember being a requirement before.
For background, I’m [...]
I’m in the process of moving to a two-machine development environment so my SQL Server processing will occur on one machine and my application will run on another machine. I’m making this change since I’ve found that a single machine with 4GB can’t handle both processing 4 million records AND running an application that processes [...]
Image management is perhaps one of the strongest features of the NextGEN Gallery plugin compared with other image plugins, although until you learn a few concepts it can be a little difficult to use.
Definitions
Gallery - A collection of images. Think of a gallery as a collection of images that are related, e.g. vacation photos or [...]
There are a lot of options available in this plugin. To configure it, you find a top-level Gallery menu in the admin menu. The main page looks very similar to the WordPress Dashboard page. The one thing that is missing is a link to the plugin page itself.
Before you do anything else, go to the [...]
The installation instructions in the readme.txt file indicate that the plugin should be copied to a folder called nggallery, but Alex must have removed that requirement since writing that as the code clearly allows the plugin to be installed in any directory below wp-content\plugins. I initially installed it in the nextgen-gallery directory and it worked [...]
I’d been looking for a better way to manage and display photos on my blogs when I ran across Alex Rabe’s fantastic NextGEN Gallery plugin. It provides a comprehensive interface for managing photos and images through a set of admin pages, and it displays photos in a way that makes your web site look very [...]
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