Category Archives: Wordpress Playground

Things I use or am trying out in WordPress – plugins, widgets, themes and so on. Some work, some don’t, some I will keep, some I will delete.

Movie Test –

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So… I love to play with widgets, gadgets and other things. When they do not blow something up, they are neat.
This is a new one that pops video into the blog. I have a Quicktime mov file of the Lumberjack competition in Frankenmuth Michigan that I put here just to see how it works.

Frankenmuth

www.kasdorf.net/GMovies/Frankenmuth Michigan [2006-05] 027.MOV

The video itself is maybe not the greatest, but the idea is what can be done!

May have to stick some more on here sometime.

Update 12/14/2015 – It appears Quick Time is no longer working as it once did. But you can go ahead and try. This will now download the MOV file which can then be opened and played outside of the browser.

George

This is to cool – or is it?

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I just found out about a new plugin for WordPress which integrates Jalbum directly into a WP blog entry.
I needed a post to try it out, so here it is. Let see if it works!
Okay, test one failed… getting errors in path.
Okay, test two failed… getting errors in path.
Okay, test three worked, I think the only issue was the direction of the slash!

But, putting the entire album in means every thumbnail is in the post! Way to many!!
[jalbum_album_short:/GSlideShows/Alberta2007,4]
Using the option for showing only 4 thumbnails.

I am going to try single photo….
. . . . some time later . . . I was reading the authors website . . . I am supposed to be able to limit the number of thumbnails . . . . somehow . . .
That works really great, even shows how many photos are in total album. Only issue I have is that the thumbnails are getting pretty grainy when I move them up to 300 pixels, which is the size I normally like them. Moved them back to 150.

[jalbum_photo:/GSlideShows/Alberta2007,Alberta Canada 2007-07 005.jpg]

Now that works sweet!
I like that I can see the thumbnail, then it opens the actual album. Other than tracking down the correct album and photo name it is easier than the LightBox Plus plug in I was using… which I still like to quickly show a thumbnail and then a full size photo, which can be the same or different photo which is nice.

Now . . . . I wonder what the IFrame option does . . .
Okay . . okay, but not my preference. It does allow the full album to be inserted, and maybe with a different theme, like one that resizes, it may work better, but I don’t like all the scrolling this way. I like opening the album from the thumbnail, then the new album can be close so the user returns to the blog entry.
[jalbum_iframe_album:https://www.kasdorf.name/GSlideShows/Alberta2007/index.html,100%,600px]

Until the final plug in blows up,
George

Kazology goes Mobile!

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I have been having some problems with the buggers that run the spam bots putting “trackbacks” onto the blog. tippmix fogadas These are not particulary harmful, but it does put junk in as advertising for all sorts of nefarious sites that I would rather not be associated with. hivatalos fogadóiroda Doing some research on how to halt this I found a new plug in for WordPress to make the blog more readable to mobile browsers. mobil gaminator It is pretty seamless, the user does not have to do anything, and the setup is really easy. Took about two minutes to complete, and then hours to figure out why it wouldn’t work correctly. A quick note to the author and I had a response in hours and it now is doing everything as advertised!

Just aim your mobile browser to www.kasdorf.net/wordpress and see what it looks like.

Just aim your mobile browser to www.kasdorf.name/wordpress and see what it looks like. It automatically senses the browser/device used and adjusts accordingly. Just to give credit to a well done piece of software, and if you have a need visit

Now back to the original trackback spam issue. It seems that the “normal” comment spam trap “Spam Karma 2” (Update 2021: I think Dr. Dave is gone, URL is no longer active.) I  by Dr. Dave should catch all this stuff, so I cranked up a couple of the settings and I will see what happens over the next few days.

Until the final crappy piece of spam is stopped dead,
George