My first blog since 2009!!!!!!

Date: 18th June 2011 at 11:04 am | Filed under: blog | Author: Sam Burdge

Wow, the time has just flown by!!! Sorry for the lack of recent code and wordpress goodness.

Firstly, I am glad to see that my WP Post Columns Plugin is still going strong!!! Although it has not been updated since 2009 it seems that it is still working (for most people at least) and the comments keep flooding in!

Many of my WordPress plugins, themes and code tutorials are now unfortunately un-supported. But they are still free, and many people add solutions and answers as well as questions in the comments. I am still working with WordPress every day, but can no longer spare the time to provide free support for free plugins and tutorials.

I have had quite a few comments from people saying that they find it hard to read white text on a black background. Some of these comments have been so strongly worded that I was unable to publish them on the site! If you really can't stand it then you could always try getting firebug addon for firefox and changing the colours however you want (yellow text on a pink background looks quite good). I probably won't be changing my theme in the near future. Also, it's probably a good idea not to get into server administration like linux / apache stuff if you don't like light text on a dark background...

Some new wordpress tutorials and goodies coming soon I promise!

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WordPress Attachment Page Template Code Snippets

Date: 15th November 2009 at 4:25 am | Filed under: scripts, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , , , ,

I haven't written as many WordPress tutorials as usual lately, as I have been so busy building websites and blogs, so I thought I would take the time out to share a few WordPress codes I have developed recently for attachment page templates and specifically the image attachment page template. The attachment page template is the page that displays a single image when the images link URL is set to 'Post URL'. You can set the image's link URL when inserting a single image into a post, and also when using the gallery shortcode.

The codes in this article are mostly applicable to images inserted using the gallery shortcode as they are most useful for posts or pages that have multiple image attachments. Read more about using image and file attachments.

These template codes can be added to your WordPress theme using the attachment.php and image.php files. If these template files do not exist in your theme you can create them, or WordPress will default to using single.php or index.php to show attachments by default. (See more about template hierarchy).

If you don't want to create a seperate image.php or attachment.php template you can always edit the index.php or single.php files and wrap the attachment specific codes in the is_attachment clause like so:

if(is_attachment()){
//attachment page specific code goes here
}

These php functions are loosely based on code I found in this article: Adding text links to WordPress Gallery by Michael Fields. In this article he provides code examples of how to show previous and next thumbnail links in a WP attachment page. I also made use of this previous-next keys in array function which is infinitely useful!

My first set of functions will return text links for previous image, next image and back to gallery. The functions themselves will need to be added to your theme's functions.php file before calling them in your image.php or attachment.php files. So here we go:
Read on…

15 Responses to “WordPress Attachment Page Template Code Snippets”

  • Comment by doriggidy
    Date: April 25th, 2010 at 8:08 pm

    Hi this is a great tutorial. I’m currently using nextgen gallery but want to try your gallery on my sister’s blog…so using the built in image features of WP seem to be the best solution. What you have here should be perfect for her. Great job. One question, If I wanted to have the images themselves link to the next image…how wold i do that?

  • Comment by muscle car
    Date: May 24th, 2010 at 4:29 pm

    hay that’s the cool one,but how to create thumbnail picture in random,place in sidebar or in home page header,thaks b4

  • Comment by Ted
    Date: May 27th, 2010 at 11:47 pm

    This worked perfectly for me … except, for some reason I can’t get the image captions to display. Any thoughts why they might not be coming in?

  • Comment by Shariff
    Date: July 7th, 2010 at 4:13 pm

    Wonderful Tutorial, at last I found it, I am going to try this in my blog.

    Great Going

  • Comment by Jason
    Date: July 9th, 2010 at 4:16 pm

    Thank you for this tutorial, it helped me immensely.

  • Comment by David Hobson
    Date: August 5th, 2010 at 3:59 pm

    First let me say, I am an experienced computer/internet user, however my developer side is still just an apprentice. But as a user, the second I saw white and other colored text on black background, I closed it and went on. I decided to come back and let you know because I’m sure I’m no the only one who’s done so. You might want to see what other developers think and if this technique is advisable. At least my eyes are hurting right now. Peace.

  • Comment by 2k
    Date: October 4th, 2010 at 12:27 pm

    Hi, excellent function to output the all thumbnails to attachments.php Would be amazely cool to adapting it to single.php. Is there any way to output all thumbnails the same way for single.php?

  • Comment by michelle
    Date: October 26th, 2010 at 12:56 am

    Very helpful. Thank you!

  • Comment by Clark
    Date: January 16th, 2011 at 7:38 pm

    Helpful stuff, exactly what I needed!

  • Comment by David
    Date: January 23rd, 2011 at 11:20 am

    Hi, nice tuto ! I just want to say I think the function array_navigate / prev_att_link / next_att_link could be done with one line of code ! See the wordpress function : wp_link_pages(); (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_link_pages) and to see an exemple you can look the code of the attachment.php twentyten wordpress theme.

  • Comment by David
    Date: January 23rd, 2011 at 2:15 pm

    Sorry, it’s not wp_link_pages () but previous_image_link(false) and next_image_link () with false option to insert the title : http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/previous_image_link

  • Comment by onetrek
    Date: February 27th, 2011 at 5:21 am

    This tutorial is good. But it difficult to read because of the page color. Font size if too small. As a web developer I Suggest you to make your template white color. and big font size.

  • Comment by Marirano MARINI
    Date: March 31st, 2011 at 7:44 am

    When I split an article into 2 column the first row of the second column start one line bottom.
    How can I prevent this?

    Thank you. I appreciate your job and I’ll use it when this “bug” will be take off.
    Great work!

  • Comment by surface encounters
    Date: April 7th, 2011 at 5:17 pm

    Thanks manos! Taking the two leading spaced off the end of the functions.php file worked great. Thanks!

  • Comment by Kevin
    Date: June 21st, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    Thanks for the thumbnail function! Works great!!!
    The selecting of text with your particular color scheme is hard to see though!
    Excellent work =)

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Street Fighter Widget

Date: 26th October 2009 at 1:05 am | Filed under: blog | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , ,

Get your hands on the new Street Fighter 2 widget. You can grab the widget code and embed it on your website, or even your myspace or facebook profile. This flash remake of the game is a very accurate copy of the arcade original featuring all the characters and bonus levels. If you just want to play the game on a website please follow this link:

Play Street Fighter online

2 Responses to “Street Fighter Widget”

  • Comment by Nail Yener
    Date: October 3rd, 2010 at 9:52 am

    I am glad that I came across this. I used to play Street Fighter 2 about 15 years ago :)

  • Comment by Bob
    Date: May 1st, 2011 at 3:54 am

    hey great sf2 widget mang ill put it onto my blog :)

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Video Gallery - Neil Stewart / Fella Pictures

Date: 21st April 2009 at 3:41 pm | Filed under: development, portfolio | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , ,

This week I have been working on improving the 'Moving Image' section of photoneil.com. When I first built the site (designed and built by 76 Creative) the Moving Image page featured Neil's video showreel, since then video has become a more prominent aspect of his work so I have created a video gallery page for the site, allowing him to showcase a range of his video work under different categories.

As this video gallery uses seperate pages for the video list and the player itself I programmed it in PHP using the Longtail / JW Player to play the flv videos. For more information about encoding video for Flash as flv see my article: Encoding FLV

The video gallery also offers the option to download higher quality Quicktime Movies of each video. I encoded the quicktimes using the mpeg-4 codec and reducing the frame size slightly to allow for higher picture and sound quality while keeping the filesizes reasonable for a download.

Check it out: www.photoneil.com/movingimage.php

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Zakeeya.com - Art & Photography blog sketchbook

Date: 2nd April 2009 at 9:20 pm | Filed under: portfolio | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , , ,

zakeeya-screen

This simple, elegant blog was designed and built by 76 Creative (coded by me:¬)  for London based artist Zakeeya. It is powered by the Gallery Mangement feature of Admin 76, 76 Creative's custom Content Management System.

The Gallery Management system was originally intended for creating a series of galleries, rather than one huge one, so although being simple in appearance on the front end, the back end of this site still posed one or two challenges for me and allowed for improvements to be made to the CMS in the process.

Another thing I enjoyed about this site is doing a layout with a fluid width in CSS, most sites I have done are fixed width so it was interesting to change things up a bit.

I'm a big fan of simplistic / minimal websites where the content is the main focus.  Check it out:

www.zakeeya.com

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