The media library plugin allows you to easily attach/re-attach images, group images using gallery objects, tag images, and much more from your WordPress dashboard. The plugin uses native WordPress objects to accomplish these tasks so that you may use existing WordPress functions and plugins on the gallery objects created using this plugin. For example, gallery…..
This is my first experiment at modifying the textures/shaders within Carrara 7. I took a blank skin texture and added various skin tattoo effects to it using Photoshop. I tested out four versions of tattoos – A pink gradient tattoo in flourish style, a dark dragon tattoo, a simple black tattoo with flowers and butterflies,…..
Happy Easter! I am starting to experiment with various background effects and textures. I have also started editing textures/shaders within Carrara. It is amazing the variety of looks you can achieve with both! Previously, I have used background resources with very little editing. This is the first theme where I combined very basic elements including…..
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Meta-boxes are interface objects that allow you to easily associate additional information with your WordPress posts, pages, or links. If you go into your WordPress Edit Post screen, you will see a variety of standard WordPress meta-boxes, including those for entering tags, categories, post thumbnails, and setting post status. You can create your own meta-box…..
The Shiba Example Plugin is an empty plugin to help you get started on writing a WordPress plugin. The Shiba Example Plugin contains – A plugin activation hook that runs when a plugin is first activated. Plugin initialization functions. An example plugin sub-menu page. An uninstall.php file that runs when your plugin is uninstalled. Use…..
She is sexier and more deadly than James Bond. Spy Girl theme images are created with Carrara, Photoshop, and 3D-models from Daz 3D. The header and footer of this page will automatically rotate through the different Spy Girl theme options, so you may see how they look in a WordPress blog format. Note – The…..
The Shiba Gravatar Plugin allows you to cache gravatar images locally on your server as well as use your own set of gravatar images. [Most recent Shiba Gravatar updates] Jan 10th, 2011 – Release 1.4 Updated for WordPress 3.1. Shiba Gravatar will now cache ALL gravatar images including generated gravatar images. Only cache generated images…..
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. He was originally taken as a slave to Ireland but managed to escape after six years. Some years later, Patrick had a vision about the people of Ireland – I saw a man coming, as it were from Ireland. His name was Victoricus,…..
The blog warrior is back – and this time – she is heavily armored for action. This second incarnation of the blog warrior will help you hack and slash your way to high blog traffic and a killer website. Blog warrior images are created with Carrara, Photoshop, and 3D-models from Daz 3D. The header and…..
In this article we consider how to write out comments data in the WordPress XML import format. Once you do this, you can easily import the generated XML file into WordPress by using the Import functionality within your WordPress dashboard. We assume that you already have the comment data extracted in a PHP script elsewhere……