This video tutorial will show you how to add, edit, and mange images within your posts.
Watch it below, or watch it here.
WordPress Tutorial (2.6.1): Image Upload, Edit, Align and Captio
You can find more great video tutorials at Likoma.
Tag: WordPress
Great WordPress Plugins for Flickr
[via speckyboy]
Flickr and wordpress have really changed the web-0-sphere. They simply make sharing multimedia, photos, and ideas simpler. During my endless search for more great wordpress plugins, I began searching for easy ways to integrate flickr with wordpress, and saw this great article.
If you’re looking to integrate photos into your wordpress site, install these plugins and get crackin’ !
[Most of the content here is a repost. Click for the full article.]
Flickr Photo Album for WordPress
Description: This Flickr plugin for WordPress will allow you to pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your WordPress site. There is a pretty simple template provided, but you can customize the templates 100% to match the look and feel of your own site. And if you want, you could also hook it up with Lightbox or any other number of display libraries.
On the backend, this plugin will also add a new Flickr icon to your WordPress edit screen which will allow you to easily insert your Flickr photos into your blog posts with just a couple clicks. You can either have your inserted photos link back to your WordPress Flickr photo album or directly to your Flickr.com photo page.
URL:Â http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/photo-album/.
Flickr Manager for WordPress
Description: WordPress Flickr Manager is an easy to use plugin that seamlessly integrates your Flickr account with your WordPress backend. It replaces the browse panel from previous versions, but legacy mode can be enabled through the options menu. You also have the choice between Highslide and Lightbox.
URL:Â http://tgardner.net/wordpress-flickr-manager/.
Flickr Tag Plugin for WordPress
Description: This plugin downloads all of your Flickr images onto your own server and allows them to appear on your own gallery. Nice and simple.
URL:Â http://www.webopticon.com/archives/148.
SimpleFlickr for WordPress
Description: This is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to embed a flickr integrated simpleviewer into your WordPress site. In addition, you are able to specify a path to a standard SimpleViewer XML configuration file to display images from a local gallery.
URL:Â http://wordpress.org/simpleflickr/.
Slickr Gallery for WordPress
Description: Slickr Gallery is a very fast, bandwidth-friendly photo gallery plugin for WordPress. It allows you to pull your Flickr-hosted photos into a gallery section of your blog, as well as easily add Flickr-hosted images to your posts and pages. It is especially useful for people with many Flickr albums/photos.
Slickr Gallery needs a Lightbox plugin to work properly.
URL:Â http://stimuli.ca/slickr/.
FlickrRSS for WordPress
Description: This plugin for WordPress allows you to display Flickr photos on your weblog. It supports user, set, favorite, group and community photostreams, and is relatively easy to setup and configure via a settings panel. The plugin also has cache support, allowing you to save thumbnails on your own server.
URL:Â http://eightface.com/wordpress/flickrrss/.
Flickr Thumbnail Photo stream for WordPress
Description: The Flickr Thumbnail Photostream WordPress plugin makes including and linking to photos on a Flickr account simple and flexible. The links come in the form of thumbnail images that link to their larger, normal formats within the Flickr website. The advantage of this plugin is that it does not use RSS feeds and uses the Flickr API instead.
URL:Â Flickr Thumbnail Photostream.
Flickr Gallery for WordPress
Description: Using the “shortcodes†system in WordPress 2.5 and up, this plugin will allow you to quickly and easily incorporate your Flickr photos into your WordPress pages and posts.
URL:Â http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flickr-gallery/.
Thanks to speckyboy for a great article!
Make sure to visit his site for more great wordpress tips.
Great WordPress Themes
Are you looking for great wordpress themes? Me too!
I’ve compiled the following places, where you can start your search for new wordpress themes. After you’ve found a theme you like, you’ll need to install onto your server. For help, follow these instructions.
And now – the list:
For beginners, I suggest starting out with K2.
Once you get a sense of things and become more familiar with wordpress, I suggest taking a look at the themes below.
The Thesis Theme : Flexible, modifiable, and manageable theme framework
WP Remix : A Full Blown Theme Save yourself the time and hassle of customizing a theme. This theme comes with pre-built templates, widgets, plugins, and other items, saving you time and effort. Get your site up and running with WP Remix!
The official WordPress Directory : WordPress.org has loads of resources, including a theme directory
Smashing Magazine : A great collection of resources, plugins, and themes. While you’re at it, take a look at their article, Strategic Design: Steps for Bulding Successful Websites
Graph Paper Press : Original wordpress themes, available for sale. Beautiful, elegant, customizable, flexible. In addition to the premium themes ($), there are free themes available as well.
Upstart Blogger : Free wordpress themes, for a solid wordpress themer.
Elegant WordPress Themes : Premium wordpress themes available here.
WP-Folio : A WordPress theme for artists. Developed in a residency at EyeBeam. Awesome!
If you find great themes, or theme directories please let me know by leaving a comment!
Setting up WordPress on your host
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For those who haven’t heard, I’m a big fan of WordPress. It’s a great content management system! It’ll help you keep your site updated, and help you get blogging. If you’ve already got hosting, great! You can now setup WordPress on your own host. In fact, many of the sites I setup run on WordPress
If you do not have your own domain or hosting yet, I personally recommend getting hosting on:
Bluehost or
Many hosts, like Bluehost, have Fantastico, which help you setup great utilities on your own host. If you have Fantastico on your host, check these great tutorials on setting up WordPress on your domain.
If you don’t have Bluehost or other similar domains, there is also service that will install your WordPress blog FOR FREE – no strings attached. This is great! You must have your own domain and host already in order to use this service.
http://install4free.wordpress.net/
For those do-it-yourselfers, follow these instructions on how to install a wordpress blog on your own domain:
First, check to see if your host has a 1-click install. Bluehost and Dreamhost both have one-click installs. Check here for a list of other hosts with 1-click installs.
Otherwise, follow the steps below…
1. Download the WordPress Package (http://www.worpdress.org/download).
Once the file has finished downloading, Unzip the file.
2. Connect to your domain via FTP. If you don’t have an FTP program, download Filezilla. If you have trouble connecting to your site, you can contact your host for help setting up your FTP environment.
3. Create a database for WordPress on your web server. You will need to login to your host in order to do this. Make sure you keep ALL your database information in a safe place. If you do not know how to setup a database, contact your host directly.
4. Place the WordPress files in the desired location on your web server. For example, if you want to integrate WordPress into the root of your domain (e.g. http://example.com/), move or upload all contents of the unzipped WordPress directory (but excluding the directory itself) into the root directory of your web server.
If you want to have your WordPress installation in its own subdirectory on your web site (e.g. http://example.com/blog/), rename the folder you downloaded to “blog” and upload it to your web server.Â
If you have no idea what the above means, you have a few options:
1. contact your hosting company
2. hire someone
3. have someone do it for free : http://install4free.wordpress.net/
For a nice visual tutorial on setting up WordPress, go here :Â http://www.cre8d-design.com/wordpress.html
Effective Use of Webtools
This coming Thursday, the Queens Council for the Arts will be hosting a panel for artists. As one of the panelists, I’ve been asked to address the question, “How to effectively get your message out.”
Essentially – you’ve got a website, a social networking profile, or other online identities – now what?
This past May, I gave a presentation on this very issue.
You can see the presentation here.
And I know – the very challenge we all face is “Not enough time, money, or space.” (Hint: This challenge is not unique to artists). And we also have the inevitable question – do we have to do everything like setup a facebook, myspace account, and linkedIn account?
Simply said, if you’re going to actually use these tools to communicate, then of course – use them. They are popular sites because they are useful tools. But if you’re not going to use it, don’t set it up. It’s like having an email account you never check. Why bother?
My question for you then, the reader, revolves around content production :
- TOOLS: How do you envision producing content for the web?
- RESOURCES: What kind of resources do you already have that will enable you to produce this content?
- MESSAGE: What will this content communicate?
- ACTION: What response would you like to elicit from your online audiences?
- PURPOSE: How will this serve your mission and connect to your work offline?
Answering these questions will benefit you much better than answering, what do I do with my MySpace account? If you can answer these questions, you’ll be well on your way to developing your online presence and growing your audience – online and off.
Some Places to start:
1. Start working with a CMS (Content Management System)
If you want to be able to manage and update your website without a web programmer, invest in a content management systems.
I suggest you use one of the following:
- WordPress (typically a blogging platform, but scalable for large sites) – easy, cheap setup
- Drupal (open-source) – higher learning curve, large set of functionality
- Joomla – most popular, though typically more expensive to develop
- Plone – popular with environmental organizations
You can take a look at some of my WordPress and Drupal work here.
2. Create a production calendar, just like you would create for any other work you may have.
3. Start documenting your work online. We’re living in a green-conscious world. We should resuse all we can. Documenting your work online offers you a chance to reuse materials from your process.
This can mean:
- posting your photos online (I recommend flickr)
- writing about your process on a blog
- posting a series of videos online
- offering tutorials
- revealing your process as its own art form
4. Offer your audience members a chance for feedback. Be prepared to listen and respond. By offering users + audiences a chance to submit their own content (user-generated content), you relieve yourself the responsibility of producing and uploading content. However, you still have the responsibility of making sure you respond, and participate in the community you are creating.
5. Create a place for experimentation. Your mission will not change from month-to-month. So your basic website should not change drastically from month-to-month, either. However, you do need places to try new things out. Setup a test blog on wordpress, or a personal account on flickr. Begin testing things out for yourself. See what works for you.
The most important thing in building your online presence is to remain open and responsive. With a positive and open attitude, you’ll create possibilities you haven’t even thought of yet!
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For an interesting read, check out 11 Ways to Market your Site