After running into some frustrations while developing Drew’s WordPress blog, I worked out a couple of customizations that may be helpful.
Changing the default size of “full-size” images
Drew wanted to upload several different image sizes to his site, but found that even when he selected Full Size in the flash image uploader, the image defaulted to a width of 500px. It took some digging but I found some solutions. It’s set up this way to keep people from uploading huge images breaking their page layout. This only works if you are using a theme similar to the default WordPress theme which has a main column width of 500px. I followed their advice and set a global max column width in the functions.php file in my themes directory, like this:
$GLOBALS['content_width'] = 961;
Flickr Badge with Lightbox
I also had a heck of a time figuring out how to add a Flickr “badge” to a page’s sidebar and have the images appear lightboxed on the same page when clicked instead of going to a Flickr page. I tried a few pre-built plugins for this but couldn’t get them to work.To get it working, I installed the flickr RSS plugin and the Lightbox 2 plugin.Then to get the flickrRSS plugin to use the lightbox I had to add the rel=lightbox attribute to the flickrRSS.php file in the plugins directory. On lines 106 - 109 it looks like this:
print $before_image . "< a href="$fullimgurl" title="$title"
rel="lightbox">" . $after_image; } else {
# grab image direct from flickr
print $before_image . "< a href="$fullimgurl" title="$title"
rel="lightbox">" . $after_image;
