Kathy_P

Thank you, Yamel. Your example makes it clearer. Marc, that is a good site for learning CSS tricks. Hopefully I can adapt some things there for my old table layouts, and the polaroid one does show how to include a caption. Lorelle, I wasn’t implying that assigning those two classes was difficult. If I installed a plugin, it would be so I could have thumbnails in the post that, when clicked, would open up a pop-up window with a larger image. That is something that MT automated for me, and I don’t even know how to do it on my own. But sometimes when looking at flowers, you want to zoom in and look at the details, so the ability to do that with images is a feature I’d like to have.

Thanks, brainwidth. I had gone to that site myself, but obviously overlooked that page. There’s several different ones offered.

I thank you for the links, Macmanx, but does your providing them imply that the first method, which is in the Codex, won’t work for me?

I don’t know much about .htaccess except that if you do something wrong it can really screw up your site. I would like somebody to tell me if the fact that my MT url is a subdomain and the WP url is in the root makes any difference, and if it does, what modification to either the Codex fix or Dan Hersham’s fix do I need to make? And does the fact that all the links above were using a WordPress version earlier than 1.5 make any difference?

Thank you, Lorelle, that was the problem. Somehow I thought those last two lines applied to objects other than images.

I will be looking at your examples and learning what I can from them. But I have to admit, I had never thought of Alt and Title as captions. I’m confused about the difference between the two, besides the fact that alt doesn’t pop up like a tooltip in Firefox and title does. What is the purpose of each, as originally intended? Do either alt or title have a character limit, or certain characters that you shouldn’t use?

I have contributors to my blog that don’t know beans about html, but still want to upload photos. I am hoping to use CSS to make it easy for them to format the photos the way they want to. But I am also going to investigate plugins as well. The one thing I miss about Movable Type is that it would not only create a thumbnail for you, but it would create the html (and javascript?) code to make the thumbnail an image link to a larger image.

Thanks for letting me know. I can be patient when I know it’s nothing I can fix.

I found the WSYI-WordPress plugin here: https://mudbomb.com/archives/2005/02/02/wysiwyg-plugin-for-wordpress/

Funny how it didn’t show up in Google. The link to it from the Codex didn’t show up, either.

Also, I use the Connections theme and the CSS that Lorelle provided didn’t work for me. This is exactly how I have it in my stylesheet, at the end after everything else:
img.right
{
padding: 4px; margin: 0 0 2px 7px; display: inline;
}
img.left
{
padding: 4px; margin: 0 7px 2px 0; display: inline;
}

Is there something wrong with my punctuation that I just can’t see? Do I have to associate it with a certain class or div? Here is how I use it in this post:

<img src='https://www.coldclimategardening.com/wp-content/Iris_sibirica_Jaybird_at_Seneca_Hills_June_12_2004_cropped.jpg' class='left' alt='deep blue Siberian iris' />

If you look at the post, you will see that the image is in the center of the page. For the other two images, which align correctly, I used the “old-fashioned” align='left' and align='right'. I hope someone can troubleshoot this.

Could you provide a link for WSYI-WordPress? I just put the term in Google, and all I got was this thread!

The way the links template tags are currently configured, I don’t think you can get what you want. I want the same functionality as you are looking for, plus quite a bit more. The links template tags don’t have all the functionality or flexibility that they could have. I have posted on this forum requesting these features, but haven’t gotten any assurance that anyone on development is even considering adding such flexibility. I plan on investigating the various Amazon plugins, but even if I can find one that does what I want, it will only solve my problem for the book review category.

I can’t get the “RSS feed for this thread” to work anymore. The only feed I can get is Last 35 posts. Was this changed recently? It isn’t very helpful to have every new post pouring into your feed reader, when you only want to track one thread. I am having this trouble with Opera 8 built in feed reader and with the Sage extension for Firefox 1.03

Anyone who switched from Movable Type to WordPress is used to having these pop-up thumbnails generated automatically, and MT will even insert the code into a new post for you. (MT required Image Magick to be installed on your server.) Most people who are moving to WP are convinced that it is better in every way than MT, and the fact that MT has a more full-featured file uploader is a bit of a surprise. No wonder there are so many photo plugins for WordPress. There are a lot of situations where photos are entirely appropriate for the subject matter at hand, so it is not unreasonable for people to look for a way to speed the process up. By automating the process, MT spared its users the “blown links” that you grumble about.

Anyone who switched from Movable Type to WordPress is used to having these pop-up thumbnails generated automatically, and MT will even insert the code into a new post for you. (MT required Image Magick to be installed on your server.) Most people who are moving to WP are convinced that it is better in every way than MT, and the fact that MT has a more full-featured file uploader is a bit of a surprise. No wonder there are so many photo plugins for WordPress. There are a lot of situations where photos are entirely appropriate for the subject matter at hand, so it is not unreasonable for people to look for a way to speed the process up. By automating the process, MT spared its users the “blown links” that you grumble about.

I think I understand. I think he wants to do something similar to my Feature request here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/31032 . He wants a way to not only make Link Categories but also sub Categories. He wants added functionality in the get_links template tag.

Yes, we are talking about the site that is linked to my name. I solved the problem by deleting all the WordPress files except the wp-content folder and all it files. Then I reinstalled using the SVN of April 14th. Now everything is working, and the bug I was originally trying to eliminate is now gone.

I am a php ignoramus but I have been striving to implement Pages on my own site and have gone over the relevant parts of the Codex with a fine-tooth comb. Perhaps I don’t understand what you are trying to do, but wouldn’t the child_of argument for wp_list_pages be suited for what you want to do?