Tag Archives: wordpress
How to avoid WordPress cropping images into thumnails
I am always frustrated with the way WordPress handles pictures in a post: when you upload an image, WordPress automatically crops it into a thumbnail, a medium and a large sized picture. The result is a crowded upload folder and a mess of file names that makes it hard to pinpoint the picture you really want to show to the readers. It’s time for change. Read more »
A few nice WordPress themes
Browsing WordPress forum, I came across a few nice themes that I may consider using in the future. Tarski and Dkret3 will always be the themes of my choice. Both are well designed, with the former more suitable for serious topics and the later for more casual writing. Read more »
Quickly create favicon for WordPress
Creating a favicon is easy. Only three steps are required. Read more »
WordPress theme Tarski hacks
For a very short while, I forayed into TextPattern and wanted it to replace WordPress. It turned out that WordPress is just too convenient and powerful to be replaced. But I am still very impressed by Textile formating syntax embedded in TextPattern. Read more »
Publish blog posts under VIM
I was looking for a blog publishing tool under Bash environment in Linux, and my search brought even better results — vimpress. It is VIM powered blog publishing tool. There have been many introductions to this wonderful VIM plugin, but allow me to repeat the information just for my own record.