I'm looking for a way to insert royalty (or otherwise) free photos quickly into the posts I write in Wordpress. (This image would serve as the primary image for that post, if it makes any difference.)
Ideally there would be an "insert image" type of dialog that would have a search field.
Submitting that search form with some keywords, there would be a list of thumbnails of images related to the search query.
Image suggestions could come from sites like sxc.hu, flickr.com or everystockphoto.com, showing only images that are licensed for free use (optionally photos that are not licensed for commercial use could be filtered out).
From this list I could then choose the most appropriate photo for the post.
This plugin could also insert an attribution text for the image automatically.
That is, ideally. Naturally I'm ready to compromise. Then again, there might be even better solutions that have even smoother, quicker way of accomplishing post image automation.
I'd prefer a free plugin but paid one will do as well. Or several plugins.
Check out Zemanta. I think it handles everything you want, and it updates automagically based on the contents of your post.
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Please I need to delete and repost my old posts on WordPress so that they can be reindexed by search engines like new content. I don't want to manually do it. Please can someone help with an idea of how to?
To do this you update your posts' post_date values. There are plugins for the purpose.
But be careful. Search engines like Google are really good at detecting attempts to play games with them to boost search rankings. People have been playing those games since Yahoo ruled the search-engine world. If they detect such things on a site they down-rank it or even stop showing it altogether. Simply updating dates without changing content may trigger a game-playing filter. You don't want that.
Ask yourself the question, "how do I make my site more useful to people who search for it?" New and updated content is a good way to do that.
In Google reader(R.I.P) we could select some interesting links by a special tag and then make public them and show links on our blogs or websites.
Is there a way to create this by Google reader alternatives like Inoreader or Feedly or AOL reader or etc?
I should probably start by saying that I'm the BDFL of Inoreader, but I feel obliged to answer you. If anyone thinks my answer is inappropriate or that this can be achieved with one of the other mentioned options, feel free to bash me in the comments :)
Yes, you can do that in Inoreader.
Since you are familiar with Google Reader, you shouldn't have much difficulties starting up with it, but if you have, here's a quick guide to get you started.
Depending on what you need to achieve the option you want is accessible via right-click on a folder or a tag:
Then in the dialog that pops up, you will see an Export option. Click it and you will get 3 links - for RSS feed, HTML page (what you need) and a public OPML file (for folders only):
A few notes on folders and tags:
Folders are used to group sources (RSS, social and other feeds) and content inside them is automatically populated from the feeds.
Tags on the other hand are mostly manually populated by you. When you read an article and you find it interesting, you can press "T" or click the label icon at the bottom of article to tag it. This behavior is almost identical in all major RSS readers. Working with tags in Inoreader is covered in detail in this blog post.
Now I said mostly before, because tags can also be automatically populated by Inoreader's Rules. Basically they works like your email filter. You can set up keywords or other conditions and tag articles automatically as they arrive. This feature is covered in this blog post.
Hope this helps!
I'm just trying to move one of my old php sites to wordpress. As part of the site I have 'top tables' e.g. top 10 cars, listing their features etc. At the moment that all comes from a database and the HTML is generated from the data.
So if a car soon gets a hybrid engine I just check that in the database and my web site table updates to reflect that.
This all works fine. I just don't know where to start when trying to implement something like this in wordpress. I want to keep the WP header, footer, nav... and put my table in to the content area.
Someone recommended simply copying the current generated HTML in to a new post and editing the HTML when anything changes, this sounds like a quick solution but there must be a better way of doing this.
Ideally I would want to keep my current data input pages (and separate database) for all of this 'table data' and present the out put as a post.
If anyone can point me in the right direction (key words I should search for, a guide) that would be great.
Depending on your usecase, you'll usually want to use a static page template:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates
Or shortcodes:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API
This is an awfully specific and awfully challenging issue. I know my chances of finding someone else with this problem are slim, but I have to try. I'm stumped.
I'm using Drupal 6, Ubercart, and the Option Images module.
I would like it to switch product images as different attributes are selected.
This works for certain images, but not for others. It seems to be tied to the attribute set, not anything about the image files--I've tried the same image on lots of attribute sets. I've also tried creating different attribute sets to see if I could figure out what aspect of the attributes is making option_images not work. No luck so far.
The Problem
For certain groups of attributes, option images will upload but they do not display on the product page.
Things I've Learned
Even for products that show broken option_images behavior, the images are uploaded. I see them in the database in the files table and on the filesystem.
There is an array on the product page I can see: '$node->option_images'. This array is populated for working product pages, and not populated for product pages that don't show option images.
When I turn on the database debugger, I can see that the database is queried (uc_option_image_load). On the broken pages though, it queries for images for the wrong product. (eg: it looks for sharp cheddar option images when it's on the swiss almond page) These products use different attribute sets.
Screenshots
I found it. The fact that it allows me to upload and preview option_images put me on the wrong path. It is actually a setting which enables and disables attributes for option images.
The setting is here: admin/store/settings/attributes
I think this is a usability bug, since letting me upload images for disabled attributes confused the heck out of me. But anyway. Solved.
Seriously questioning the Drupal way right about now.
Do you have any Drupal module (or other solution) to implement a feature similiar to Facebook's Share a Link?
To be precise:
you paste a link
site's preview is generated
title
short excerpt
and a thumbnail of one of the site's images
You'll need to do some pretty fancy stuff when snagging that thumbnail.
That's parsing the page and picking out thumbnails that might want to get used from the tags on the page.
It will need to do this via javascript after the link has been placed.
Facebook actually caches their thumbnails for page sharing once a day, so they choose not to go grab it at run time for the client every time.
There are certainly libraries (and maybe a jQuery plugin that would let you slurp a URL into memory then traverse it and present some one the fly images.
Check out the Tumblr Share tool. You might be able to reverse engineer from that.
As for Drupal modules this seems unlikely. Would love to hear it though.
You could also think about a third party screen shot service, but that's a pain too.