As an avid Wordpress user, I have come to rely heavily on some of my plugins. Occasionally I’ll browse the Wordpress.org plugins section looking for cool ones to try, but usually I stumble across them trying to solve a problem or make my life easier. I’ve come up with a list of the ones that I find the most useful, or that are cool and worth having anyway.
I’ve gotten a number of e-mails in response to a comment I made on a post about installing Wordpress on GoDaddy hosting. Given the response I’ve gotten, I thought it was a good idea to provide my PHP.INI file that I’ve set up to other people looking for this. You can download it below.
The file is a complete PHP.INI file with all the configuration options you’d find in a full PHP installation. I’ve changed a few key settings that I found most important, such as max upload size and post size, allowing for high resolution photos to be uploaded.
If you have questions or suggestions about other ways to customize this file further, please leave a comment on this post. Thanks.
As part of my training at Mass Maritime, I will be spending the better part of January and February 2008 onboard the T.S. Enterprise, Mass Maritime’s training ship, traveling around the Caribbean and the South Pacific. Since I get to have experiences that few people ever will, I have decided to set up a blog for the purpose of recording these experiences, and sharing them with readers. I plan to post pre-Sea Term news and information prior to departure, and then provide an update at least every other day during the trip. You can access the blog by going to seaterm.christiaanconover.com.
Tuesday, November 13th 2007 7:03 PM in Wordpress Themes (0)
I’ve updated the Orange Basic theme. I’ve modified the colors and fonts to make it more visually appealing, and I’ve added support for the tagging system introduced in Wordpress 2.3.
I take a lot of pictures, and I like to upload them to my blog. My camera takes large resolution photos though, so preparing the pictures for upload can be annoying. I used to open up each photo I wanted to upload individually in GIMP, resize it, and once all the pictures were resized I’d upload them one by one. I then decided I would go looking for a batch resizer, and found a very basic one that got the job done. It still wasn’t ideal since I was resizing and then uploading, adding (I felt) unnecessary steps to the process. Finally, today I decided I’d see if somebody had been smart enough to write a Wordpress plugin to resize images when you upload them. Lo and behold, somebody was, and the results more than fit the bill.
A couple days ago I decided to get a Twitter account. It seemed like a cool idea, especially when I saw how Paul Stamatiou had integrated it into his Wordpress blog. Being able to have a real-time status update on my site sounded like a cool, more personal touch to stay connected with readers. I wanted to do it in a way similar to Paul’s site - one line that simply displayed the most recent tweet. A number of plugins exist to do this; I tried a few of them and overall my results weren’t great.