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WordPress image gallery plugin

By Tom Fotherby on April 16, 2010

When I was building the property gallery for greekislandpropertyfinders I wanted to use a fancy javascript image gallery like Galleria, however I came across a problem with Galleria in that it couldn’t display more than one gallery on any page. It’s open-source so I used the source code to help write my own version and […]

Posted in Plugin | Tagged WebDevelopment, Wordpress | 33 Responses

WordPress Tag Cloud – How to cap the font size

By Tom Fotherby on February 18, 2010

On the Bitvolution WordPress theme, the sidebar is quite small (only 220px) and the default WordPress tag cloud widget was producing tags that were clipped in a ugly manner. By default, the WordPress tag cloud widget has a maximum font size of 22px so I was looking for a way to reduce it. Note: If […]

Posted in Technical | Tagged PHP, WebDevelopment, Wordpress | 1 Response

Firefox 3.6 opacity crash in Linux

By Tom Fotherby on February 11, 2010

A website that I was working on suddenly started crashing Firefox 3.6 on my PC (Ubuntu 9.10, 64bit). I’m talking a full out hang with 100% CPU usage and a frozen mouse and keyboard and the only way to recover is to remote login from a 2nd PC and kill the Firefox process. I found […]

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Elastic WordPress Plugin

By Tom Fotherby on December 21, 2009

Today, I found out about a WordPress plugin called Elastic (http://elastictheme.org/, download link) which is a WYSIWYG theme editor for WordPress. It looks like a very promising technology to make it easier to develop WordPress themes. I’m interested in re-useable modules so, if I develop something interesting for one client, I can re-use the same […]

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