Interactive Llama :: Interactive media tutorials and tips » themes http://www.interactivellama.com/blog Interactive media tutorials and tips Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:25:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Change media and images to full size in WordPress media gallery http://www.interactivellama.com/blog/archives/change-media-and-images-to-full-size-in-wordpress-media-gallery/ http://www.interactivellama.com/blog/archives/change-media-and-images-to-full-size-in-wordpress-media-gallery/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 00:15:09 +0000 Stephen James /blog/?p=122 I’ve been familiarizing myself with WordPress 2.5′s new media gallery. If you’ve visited my blog before, you know I don’t upload many images, but I’m hoping to upload many images to my wife, Rachel Steely’s website. I was annoyed to find out that the default image posting size is medium (which is about 300px). On top of that, if you select full size, it doesn’t mean full size. It means your WordPress theme’s column width. So unless you are using Kubrick your media size will not be your column width.

Change Full Size image width to match theme

The column width in WordPress’s default theme Kubrick is 500px. Therefore, the default (maximum) image size is 500px. The column width of the blog I am posting to is 614px. You can set a global variable to change this setting. Create if not already existing functions.php in your theme directory. Define your maximum media width (that is “Full Size” in the Gallery interface):

<?php
$content_width = 614;
?>

I’ve set mine to 614 pixels since that is the width of my div with the class “.entry” minus padding. If this does not work, some have solved this problem with $GLOBALS['content_width'] = 614; also. You can view this setting at a post at RachelSteely.com.

Default media to Full Size

I prefer to justify my media (align left and right) to the column width. To do this, set default selected size to “Full Size” by changing the code in /wp-admin/includes/media.php. Move the ‘checked’ radio attribute from Medium to Full Size.

Line 458:

" : '' ) . "<input type='radio' name='attachments[$post->ID][image-size]' id='image-size-medium-$post->ID' value='medium' checked='checked' />
<label for='image-size-medium-$post->ID'>" . __('Medium') . "</label>
<input type='radio' name='attachments[$post->ID][image-size]' id='image-size-full-$post->ID' value='full' />

change to

" : '' ) . "<input type='radio' name='attachments[$post->ID][image-size]' id='image-size-medium-$post->ID' value='medium' />
<label for='image-size-medium-$post->ID'>" . __('Medium') . "</label>
<input type='radio' name='attachments[$post->ID][image-size]' id='image-size-full-$post->ID' value='full' checked='checked' />

And that’s it! Happy uploading with the new and improved (and customized) WordPress media gallery.

]]> http://www.interactivellama.com/blog/archives/change-media-and-images-to-full-size-in-wordpress-media-gallery/feed/ 9 The sad state of web design: WebHotOrNot http://www.interactivellama.com/blog/archives/the-sad-state-of-web-design-webhotornot/ http://www.interactivellama.com/blog/archives/the-sad-state-of-web-design-webhotornot/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:54:34 +0000 Stephen James /blog/archives/the-sad-state-of-web-design-webhotornot/ I originally was excited when I saw WebHotOrNot.com (Yes, now you can say I’m a uber-geek). Similar to the photos of people that your friends used in high school, Hot Or Not?, you can rate the graphic design of web pages. Unfortunately, it crops each snapshot of the page off at 768 pixels (I believe).

It depresses me to click through most of these. I average clicking five or so. They are all text/information heavy and 90% look like prepackaged themes of blue, black and white. I realize that I’m posting from a blog with the default WordPress theme, Kubrick, but I’m NOT selling anything except myself. My blogs are still in a personal phase–I don’t even have a domain for each of my blogs except the poetry knook.

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