Peggy & Justin Hawkwood

The built-in Wordpress gallery has some options that are accessable through the use of shortcodes, but if you do not know them or the proper input they can be hard to use.  Similarly, there is now wat to make system wide changes without having to use shortcodes on all your galleries.  This plug-in creates an options page for some of those shortcodes along with adding other features that can extend the gallery’s functionality.

Installation

1. Copy ‘gallery-plus’ folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
3. Change any settings through the Gallery Plus menu in the Admin section.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What does Link Images To Full Resolution: do?

A: The default gallery creates links to posts with a medium-sized image with a link in it to the full resolution image.  This option cuts out the middle step, and directs the links directly to the full resolution image.  This can be very useful in congunction with the Insert “rel=…” Attribute In Link: option to get lightbox working properly.

Q: What does Insert “rel=…” Attribute In Link: do?

A: For javscript image overlay packages such as Lightbox to work properly, the links to images must have an attribute that tells the overlay to turn on.  Changing this selection will add the appropriate attributes where needed.  I know that the latest version of Lightbox 2 also does this, but it does not work well for galleries without modifying that plugin’s code.  THIS PLUGIN DOES NOT INSTALL ANY OVERLAY PACKAGES.

Q: When I change Insert “rel=…” Attribute In Link: to lightbox nothing happens.  Why?

A: As I said above, this plugin does not install any overlay packages, and those need to be installed independently.  I personally use a modified version of the Lightbox 2 plugin.

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Following is how we voted on some of the Candidates/Measures (& How Oregonians voted):

US President – Baraka Obama

US Senate – (Justin) Jeff Merkley, (Peggy) Steve Novick

US Representative, 3rd Dist. - Earl Blumenauer

Secretary of State – Kate Brown

Attorney General – Greg Macpherson (John Kroger)

State Representative, 23rd Dist. – Jackie Dingfelder

Multnomah Commissioner,  Dist. No. 3 – Judy Shiprack

Portland Mayor – Sam Adams

Portland Commissioner No. 1 – (Justin) Jeff Bissonnette, (Peggy) Amanda Fritz

Portland Commissioner No. 2 - Nick Fish

Portland Commissioner No. 4 - Randy Leonard

State Measure 51 – NO (YES)

State Measure 52 – YES

State Measure 53 – (Justin) YES, (Peggy) NO – not yet determined.

Back in 1999, we were on vacation and watch the ____ show (can’t remember the name of the show, but it because the Christopher Lowell Show), and Christopher went over his general steps for redesigning a room.  We wrote them down then, and recently came across them again, so rather than keep the random piece of paper for another 9 years, I figured I’d blog it.  Obviously, this is already online at christopherlowell.com, but following is the basics:

1. Paint and Architecture (moldings, mantel)
2. Installed Flooring (any floor surface that is wall to wall)
3. High Ticket Upholstery Items (sofa, love seat)
4. Accent Fabrics (area rugs and drapes)
5. Non-upholstered Furnishings (the work horses of the room, end tables, chairs, coffee tables)
6. Accessories (pictures, mirrors, candlesticks)
7. Plants and Lighting

The <!––less––> tag is the opposite of the <!––more––> tag. Where the <!––more––> tag hides all content that follows it when viewing the post on multi-post pages, the <!––less––> tag shows content preceding the tag when viewing the post on multi-post pages and hides that content (with the exception of a <p> if necessary) when viewing the whole post.  This gives a way of adding content for an excerpt in the Visual Editor without having to use the Excerpt box.  When used in conjunction with the <!––more––> tag, it gives greater flexiblity to create an dynamic excerpt without having to repeat content in the Excerpt box.

Note on “Requires at least”: The Visual Editor button works with TinyMCE version 3.x, which is in Wordpress 2.5.  So the main functionality may work in previous versions, but the <!––less––> tag will have to be manually entered in the Code Editor.

Installation

1. Copy ‘less’ folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. When editing a post, click the Less button in the Visual Editor, or insert <!––less––> in the code where you want it.

Q: When would I use this?

A: One example of a time to use this is if you have a gallery in your post.  You may not want the full gallery on multi-post pages, but one image for those pages would be nice.  Conversely, once viewing the whole post, that introduction image would now get in the way, and would be better off gone.

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