I’ll write more about why tomorrow.

I just took a photo after posting this post. Just in case I change my mind. I’m such a ditherer!

Cheesecake

The TTYtter 2.0 beta with Streaming API support is now available for the incautious.

Blow yourself away here: ttytter 2.0.0beta

Fraser met Phil Jupitas at #occupyLeeds. I took this photo.

On Sunday afternoon, Lisa and I attended her cousin Emma’s birthday party at Heckmondwike Bowling Club. It was going to be an afternoon of crown green bowling for all her family. We decided to go along as Team Blue by wearing the t-shirts we got from the Hope and Social Garden Party.

I took the bowls that my grandfather left me and it was only when I took them out of the case that I saw the connection. My grandfather was called Harold Schofield so his initials HS are on the bowls. I’d never realised before!

For the record, I was rubbish and Lisa made the semi-final only to be beaten by her Dad.

If you just want to cut to the chase, it’s here:

So what does it do?

TT Shortcodes makes the ttimg shortcode available to you. It consists of a simple pair of opening and closing blocks wrapped around an image URL.

For example:

[ttimg]http://caramboo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/blackbirds.jpg[/ttimg]

Produces this:

Whereas adding the attributes crop="t", height="150" and width="500"

[ttimg crop="t" height="150" width="500"]http://caramboo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/blackbirds.jpg[/ttimg]

Produces this:

I’ve also added (as of v0.2) the webshot attribute. You need to install stuff on your server to get this to work so it’s disabled by default. Full details on how to get it working are found in the timthumb.php file.

If you do install the stuff, you can auto-generate cached thumbnails of websites. Like this thumbnail of the BBC site:

[ttimg webshot="1" height="200" width="200"]http://bbc.co.uk[/ttimg]

Pretty neat huh!

The attributes for the ttimg shortcode are the same as the ones used for Tom Thumb except I gave them real names, if you see what I mean.

So:

Tim Thumb

I’ve bundled the latest (secure) version of Tim Thumb with the plugin. I’ve also created a timbthumb-config.php file for customised Tim Thumb use. It’s fully documented in the file.

To install the plugin, all you have to do is unarchive the zip or tar.gz file in your wp-content/plugins directory then make sure your new tt_shortcodes directory has two sub-directories named cache and temp. If they’re missing for whatever reason, simply create them:

mkdir temp cache

You must also make them world writeable:

chmod 777 temp/ cache/

And that’s it, you should be good to go!

If you get something wrong, such as not making the two sub-directories (cache and temp) writeable, providing a broken link, or linking to a non-image file, you’ll see this little guy:

It’s then time to check your installation or post/page.

Examples

Have a look on this page for some funky examples.

Nice.