WordPress can do a lot with images provided it’s configured right, and exactly how you want it. http://ottopress.com/2011/photo-gallery-primer/ will give you the basics to then customise to your requirements. A great example of this kind of thing can be seen on Matt Mullenweg’s site: http://ma.tt/gallery/
Try adding this to your theme’s functions.php file function Get_curPageURL() { $pageURL = ‘http’; if ($_SERVER[“HTTPS”] == “on”) {$pageURL .= “s”;} $pageURL .= “://”; if ($_SERVER[“SERVER_PORT”] != “80”) { $pageURL .= $_SERVER[“SERVER_NAME”].”:”.$_SERVER[“SERVER_PORT”].$_SERVER[“REQUEST_URI”]; } else { $pageURL .= $_SERVER[“SERVER_NAME”].$_SERVER[“REQUEST_URI”]; } return $pageURL; } add_filter(‘gettext’,’custom_login_to_download_msg’); function custom_login_to_download_msg( $input ) { if( !is_admin() && ‘You must be logged … Read more
You can use: <?php $image_attributes = wp_get_attachment_image_src( $attachment_id, array(1024,1024) ); ?> <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/37124/<?php echo $image_attributes[0]; ?>”>xxx</a> See http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_attachment_image_src If the picture is too small the original will show, otherwise cropped version (1024×1024). Update: Didn’t understand your question correct. Here is what you need: First of all add a thumbnail size for your custom max size … Read more
I think you’re just trying to get a featured post slider. If this is the case, you could go with a much more robust and expandable option like Nivo slider. You’d have to code it into your theme yourself to get your desired result (shows recent posts automatically), but it’s definitely possible.
This has been brought up on the iOS WordPress app forum. There appears to be a fix there but the issue is to do with the core of WordPress so switching to another app that publishes via XMLRPC will suffer the same issues. There are a few core trac tickets going on to so this … Read more
You can get all the images associated with a post with the following: $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’, ‘post_mime_type’ => ‘image’, ‘post_parent’ => $post_parent_id // you’ll need to set this somewhere else ); $images = get_children( $args ) To go from that to the 2nd image, you should just need to point to $images[1], … Read more
rarely are plugins precise o our needs. Though something to look into is a PHP class or library for this. Just because you are using WordPress doesn’t mean you can’t use other methods and include them on a custom template page or template part.
UPDATED First, let’s create a new image size. We could update one of the existing sites, but we’ll just add a new one for experience sake. Open up your functions.php file and add the following: if ( function_exists( ‘add_image_size’ ) ) { add_image_size( ‘new-size’, 500, 500, true ); // Cropped add_image_size( ‘another-size’, 400, 600 ); … Read more
You should be able to get the image title with wp_get_attachment_metadata(). It will return an array that contains useful stuff like the width and height, as well as the title.
For sliders and photo stuff you best bet is to code it yourself, especially in your situation where your grabbing photos from one area (CPT) and displaying them in another. It’s fairly simple to find a good js image slider/gallery and then just drop WP Query into it. You can of course browse here and … Read more