Here are a couple of tips that are not precisely photo tips but since they are Wordpress improvements, they can in effect support and also enhance your WP photography blog presentation.
The first one I want to mention here is the lightbox 2 plugin I installed here. This plugin opens the image in a new window while darkening the background page. Pretty neat and quite easy to install. Just download the plugin here, unzip, upload to the wp-content/plugin folder and activate in the plugin section in Wordpress.
Here, give it a try; click on this image:
The other thing I wanted to mention is that Wordpress allows the design of pages outside Wordpress which can then be uploaded into WP. The reason one would want to do it is if they want pages that look differently than their blog pages but still keep them inside WP.
It took me a (long!) while to figure it out, but once I did, it turned out to be a pretty easy and straightforward practice.
Here it is; How to create unique pages in WP:
1) Create the page in your html editor.
2) Add this code at the top of your page above the html: < ?php /* Template Name: TemplateName*/ ? >” (replace the TemplateName with anything you want)
3) Upload the page into: wp-content/themes/default folder.
4) create a new page in WP. Give it a title and select the template you have just created from the Page Template pull down menu.
5) publish your page.
Take a look at the page I created outside WP: Creative photo techniques (link is located at the top of this page)
As you see it doesn’t have the sidebars like the other pages. In this case I chose to keep the page looking somewhat like the rest of the blog by maintaining the title and the colors but you don’t have to if you want to create something new all together.
Tags : lightbox 2, plugin, wordpress, WP



















