It has come to my attention that (dundundunnnn, yes, I do believe we need a drum roll here) you can actually stop WordPress from creating ridiculous thumbnails when you upload an image, thanks to a handy little setting. Of course, I didn’t think at all to Google this hatred I have for WordPress generating thumbnails, and now I realise that from numerous posts on the WordPress.org forums, you can actually just go to Settings > Media and clear the width and height fields for the thumbnails. And… apparently, it works a treat. I’ll be honest, I haven’t actually tried it since I changed my settings.
I don’t particularly think River Song is the right person to be quoting here, but regardless:
This changes everything.
This means I have an altered view of my project to create a WordPress plugin. What’ll it be now? Perhaps it won’t be a WordPress plugin. Perhaps it will be, but it’ll be really damn simple. Perhaps it’ll be an advanced non-WordPress feature. All I know is that now I’ve got a bitchin’ (excuse my language) uploader that can definitely be expanded.
I can’t say I’ve ditched the idea of a WordPress plugin ever so completely, but… now [...] Continue Reading…
It’s been a quick but eventful week and I’ve been so dazed. I finally wrote just over 2,500 words for my part of 5,000 for the group assignment I’ve got. I’m glad I hit that point today. Last night I was up until 4:00am looking at photos from my camera and just surfing the internet (as you do in the wee hours of the morning), and I didn’t wake up until 11:00am when James called me. It bothers me so much when I wake up so close to noon. I like my mornings. I’m actually glad James woke me up even though he was so apologetic about doing so.
It’s been kind of weird, actually. Earlier in the week I spent some time buying some clothes. Of course, I was trying to hide the bargain bundle from my mum, who found them in the wash and noticed I’d bought some “shit” clothes. Whatever dude. Sorry I never had middle-of-the-road clothes and wanted something casual for once. In fact, I wanted to wear this yellow shirt and my mum wouldn’t let me leave the house in it. It’s the shirt I own that James likes… it’s yellow with a dinosaur and [...] Continue Reading…
Lately I’ve been in need of some new “basics”. I’ll be honest – a lot, if not all – of the clothes I own are on extreme ends of the spectrum. They’re either very dressy and formal – like work jackets, pretty floaty tops, long sleeved chiffon blouses, fancy scarves and the like – or really daggy, like these-could-be-my-pyjamas daggy. Not kidding. One day I was actually rolled out of bed with my Ben Jorgensen shirt (band shirts are the best to sleep in, woop woop) and just threw on a skirt and pretty much left the house.
To go to work.
Alright, after I ate and washed my face and ate breakfast. I said ate twice. I mean brushed my teeth. And not necessarily in that order.
Since most of my clothes are dressy, I find it hard to dress for certain occasions, and sometimes I feel like I need something casual that I don’t have to worry about ripping or tearing. I’m also a tights/stockings kind of girl, so one of the things I endlessly worry about is making runs in my pantyhose by getting it caught on peeling skin or zippers of bags or just having some asshole scrape [...] Continue Reading…
May the Fourth be with you, young Padawan. *bows* It’s Star Wars day every 4th of May. Today is no exception.
Hello, I’m Georgie and I’m tired. I also had my graduation ceremony today to receive my Bachelor of Arts in Communication. As I type this sentence mid-yawn as my eyes are shut and watering and my fingers bear a life of their own, I look back on today – eventful.
It began at 5:30am when I woke up to Houdini playing on my phone. Perhaps it’s time to change my alarm tone, but I’m far too lazy. I’ve been waking up really early for the past few days, trying to get used to it, as well as sleeping earlier, just to shift my body clock a little. I’m often tired when I get home from work, and it’s too late to do much, so I think it would be a good idea to sleep not long after I get home and have an early, productive morning.
I went to work this morning. I love work; hey. I was supposed to get my graduation robe and hat some 90 minutes before the actual ceremony. I left work at 1:00pm. I [...] Continue Reading…
I’ve made an image uploader with PHP and MySQL. It’s nothing much at the moment, but it’s part of my plan to turn it into a WordPress plugin. I am not quite sure how to get it working in WordPress, but this is what it does so far:
Type in some metadata for the image. Title, caption and so on. It doesn’t include everything WordPress asks for – the idea for this is to make it very simple.
Choose the image on your computer to upload.
If the image is over a certain size, it won’t upload.
If the file is not a valid image file, it won’t upload.
Images upload to a selected folder on the server.
Image metadata and the URL of the image is stored in a MySQL database.
After connecting to the database, the page loads and displays the images already in the database.
I won’t really say it’s “getting there” but I’m getting a move-on. There’s so much I want to push out of the way in terms of university. When I think about it, there’s not too much to go, but everyone knows that you start falling down when it gets into the last weeks of semester. Since I’m horribly [...] Continue Reading…
