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How to avoid WordPress cropping images into thumnails

tw — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:43:43 +0000

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. » » »

A few nice WordPress themes

tw — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:41:35 +0000

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. » » »

Quickly create favicon for WordPress

tw — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:35:46 +0000

Creating a favicon is easy. Only three steps are required. » » »

WordPress theme Tarski hacks

tw — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:31:31 +0000

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. » » »

Publish blog posts under VIM

tw — Mon, 04 May 2009 07:40:17 +0000

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. » » »