Sun 25 Jun 2006
I’ll admit that posting images has been annoying up until now. Basically, I’d create the thumbnails in photoshop and then hand-code the html for the blog entry (sometimes I’d use a multi-image thumbnailer windows freeware application.) Now that I have WordPress, I figured that there would be a plugin to speed up the process. As it turns out there are a couple such programs. The best among them interface with the opensource Gallery. I installed Gallery, created my first album and then installed the WPG2 WordPress/Gallery plugin. Unfortunately, after tinkering with the plugin for a while, I could not get it to function properly, so I spent another half hour and wrote my own. Basicially, the process now is to upload the original photos to a new directory in my images folder, create a new album in Gallery, mass-import all the files in that new directory and then add a single tag with the album id to a blog entry. Voila! I get a thumbnailed mini-gallery built into WordPress.
Life is better now. 
