Tuesday, 20 Mar 2007
Sorry for the silence! The reason? I did a much-needed upgrade to Wordpress 2.1.2… and lost almost all of my photo-uploading-and-manipulating capability. Pretty much ALL OF IT. Which brings me to this question:
Are you a whiz at self-hosted Wordpress (not the kind that’s hosted at wordpress.com - the kind you put on your own server?) Or are you a self-hosted Wordpress user that can find their way out of a wet paper sack? Because apparently, I’m not. I’m dying to put in a gallery of some sort, but every plug-in I can find seems to require a PhD in computer science more rudimentary computer/Wordpress know-how than I possess. If you think you might be able to poke around in my plug-in files for a few minutes and find some way for me to host a very, very simple gallery function on this blog, only say the word, and much love, gratitude, and yarny goodness will be headed your way.
Some day, if I can show it to you, I will tell you all about the exciting project I’m working on - involving babies (no, not making one, but dressing them, and in vintage duds to boot.) And there’s knitting to be shown off too! *sigh*… some day, my friends, some day.
To close this sad little missive, I’ll give you some good news: today’s Zoot Report is decidedly sunny! His asthma has been kicking up a bit but for the most part he’s like a new cat. He seems to be faring very well… the secondary infection is completely gone, and despite the tumors he’s his old self, howling, begging for things like noodles and tangerine slices (!), beating the crap out of Floyd and Mabel should they get out of line. Thanks for continuing to be so concerned about him - it tickles me to know my cutie has fans from afar.
March 21st, 2007 at 7:54 am
Sorry, no idea. But I’m sending moral support, if that’s any consolation at all.
March 21st, 2007 at 8:39 am
I self-host wordpress, and I have photo hosting, no problems.
I have some free time this weekend if you want some help. Drop me an email.
March 21st, 2007 at 11:55 am
Hiya. I’m pretty good w/what you need. You can check out my blog to see the embedded gallery that I use. Clic on Current Stash or The Garmendia House or the pic on the left sidebar….
March 22nd, 2007 at 3:23 pm
If all you want is a photo uploading facility, you might consider using a blog editor which you install on your computer and then publish it to your blog. I use one called Windows Livewriter - the first time you set it up you have to give it your username and password for your blog and then you literally just type things in and add photos - you just click on add photos and you can add alt text and everything and even tell it which category to put the post in. (It’s free, by the way). I’ve tried about 3 different plugins for photo uploading with Wordpress and I’ve found this is by far the easiest and you don’t even have to mess around with the plugins folder.
March 25th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Yay Zoot! It’s good to hear that he’s doing well.
I posted one of your pictures on my blog as inspiration, with a credit that it’s yours right under it. If you’d like to to remove it, let me know and it’s done!