Coming up with new ideas as a way of showing images can be a tough job. Let’s face I there are not a lot of things we can do that haven’t been done before in some way. But it is good to be able to decide which of the many ways will suit the theme of the blog we are posting to. So many things on the net become stereotyped in the way we present them that we really need to use both ingenuity and imagination to be able to produce something different. And to be able to produce something both different and unique is an on going goal of mine. Obviously I mean that in a good way. You don’t want to produce something that is unique but such a mess no one wants to look at it.

Some of the plug-ins that are available to use to create images in our blogs are listed below.

WP Get Post Image

This plug-in is a developers plug-in which enables them to incorporate the upload of images via WordPress. It is not meant to be used by the general theme users.

Flickr Gallery

Flickr gallery will show your current photos and will enable you to cache them in a database for quicker loading. You can only use one photoset but it will collect the photos by tags.  The program also deals with videos by embedding the flash movie player.  This is your standard gallery of photos and doesn’t really do imaginative things. You can paginate the galleries however. It will also allow you to insert a single photo into content of your blog. The one good thing is it allows you to collect your photos from your Flickr collection. This plug-in uses the lightbox.

Grou Random Image Widget

With this widget it enables you to show a random image from your folder images. This means the page loads are cut down as only the image is changed. You can do a fade in and out image load. There are 9 different picture frames you can choose from and you can also link to the full image if you so wish. Rather a neat application.

WP Image Tagger

To get good marks from out teacher Google and their spiders we need to tag our photos. This means the spiders understand what the image is about. That is of course if we have thought out our tags properly. Tags need to be relevant to the content and the subject of the blog. In order to tag the photos easily we use the plug-in which not only allows you to tag them but it also places them in categories and integrates the tags into the whole system of the blog. You can then associate them to your photos with the editor and also list the images available on your site and are connected. It makes it possible to do a search of the images on your blog by the tags. It gives a greater possibility of telling the viewing public what is available to see on your site.

I need control. How many times have you had that scream in your head? Well let me tell you a secret. Gardens and cats control you. They own you. It’s a simple fact of life. Ever seen a cat walk into a house with its tail in the air and go straight to the kitchen and mew at the fridge? Watch its people come running. It’s the same with a garden. When it rains its fine, but if it hot and the sun scorch’s the ground, you have to water it or it dies. I look out at my garden now and remember the summer days and watch the winter approaching. Judging by the berries, it’s going to be a long cold winter. They are making the branches hang low. The little creatures are very busy collecting right now. I can see them scurrying round the bushes to harvest what they need for winter.

Well we need control in our WordPress too. And to extend that control we are going to be adding a few plug-in to make life easier. I am almost beginning to wonder if WordPress is controlling us.

The first plug-in is called Pods CMS

“Pods” basically helps you by sitting on WordPress and gives you the opportunity of adding you own content types.

Are you in a Flutter?

WordPress has a plug-in which allows you to create panels for using radio buttons and various other items to make life easier. I am all for the easy life.
Take a look at it on WordPress.org

Control your Posts

With the latest ability to take control of your posts and what actually shows on your page WordPress has extended this up to 3.0. Its now your decision.

Give your Pages order

I like the idea that I can decide what order pages should go in. This little plug-in from Joel Starnes gives you that ability.

Decide who see what and who can Post where

Content decisions and access control to certain pages, is given to you with this plug-in from Agapetry.

Do you like forms

I like forms. They give me the ability to all people to leave things like names and email addresses and the like. This plug-in makes them easy. It’s called CForms II and it comes from Delicious Days.

Photo resizing
When you need to crop and adjust your photos to make that right fit you need Scissors. It’s a plug-in that allows all these kinds of adjustments.

Want a button on your toolbar?
With this neat little addition to your arsenal you can do just that. Called Tiny MCE advanced it will advance you.

Move around on different floors

Being on the bottom rung when you need to be on the top doesn’t have to mean running up stairs. PixoPoint has a hand little item which enables Multilevel Navigation.

When you aren’t using WordPress as a blog anymore

You really need this from WordPress. “Dashboard Pages”

I think I have given you enough homework for one day so I will go and feed my field mouse. See you soon.

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New Menu Management Feature
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Custom Post types
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Multiuser
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