photojunkie

That was amazingly helpful.. I use a lot of custom divs to layout text and imagery within my blog and I was getting really sick of doing it all by hand.

“”Make a copy of index.php and name it page.php, then delete/ comment out the meta tags.””

Oh.. hey, that’s even better… thanks Ian D.

Hah… thought about it for thirty seconds after posting… Easy peasly…

But just in case someone else comes looking to do the same.

It’s as easy as enclosing the extra data (meta and story title in my case) in a div…

lets say… <div class=”details”>Meta Data!</div> for example.
Then on every page I don’t want the meta data to appear, just inserting first off
===============
<style>
.details {display: none}
</style>
===============

That takes care of it. It’d be nice if it were an option for pages out of the box though… but all in all a pretty simple work around.

Thanks, I appreciate the assist. I’d like to make it an option of uploading though… that way the files I already organize by date (my serious projects and photos) don’t get double-dated… but either way.

the one thing that I disslike about that page, after careful thought. Is that there don’t seem to be any permalinks to his entries… at least not from within the blog structure itself…

The hotlinking feature may be out of the realm of the simple… And so I’m not going to beg and weep for it. I do remember that the opera browser can spoof other browsers in order to get around some (ocassionaly intentional) breakdowns in the rendering of a page. I thought that perhaps this information could be spoofed from within a plug in, but if not then I’m not going to hold my breath.

(yeah, me too podz… i’m in a funny mood.. humor is what that is.)

MM – That link provided me with the one missing piece of the puzzle to make this work. Use the Rss File to output to flash! It’s brilliant! That lets me have my neat wordpress themed page outputed for those who detest flash, and then the uber awesome – kinda pointless – flash work at the same time. Thanks.

When someone clarifies that they are being respectful, they usualy are not. – Evan Thompson

I agree with you EyeNo, I don’t want this tool to be used to rip off someones work, If an image can be assumed to be public domain, then providing a link is (imho) a good wholesome practice – but not a requirement. I will do it, but I’m not going to go to any extravigant effort. However in any situation where it’s obviously copyright and the owner has a right to accreditation then I try and provide that whenever possible via a return link to their site in proximity to the image and full disclosure of the images original source.

That is of course my reply to steveyoung’s comment as well.
“So if I am funny you will not link to me, if I am not…”
I will return-link to you if I have used your intellectual property, I simply used PA as an example that many people would recognize. I don’t know how frustrating it must be for them to see their strips included in every third blog or so. For the longest time, they placed their web-address on the artboard in addition to the copyright information because they knew that these images would be spread over the internet and the only thing they could do was hope it drove traffic back to their site. They’ve stopped doing that… I suppose they have plenty of visitors these days. Heh.

“I want make my site look extra cool and I need some way of getting around people who don’t want me stealing their hard work”.

I don’t want someone stealing my hard work either, I have to make a living off of these things. But at the same time, If you put something on the internet that you don’t want circulated… well… you might be dissapointed. I like to have my galleries availible to potential customers, both for the purchase of prints to an art lover and for the sale of images rights to an advertising firm. I know that some of my images are being used outside of my site and without my knowledge and permission. But I’m only going to complain if I come accross one of them and I’m not given any credit for it.

“Having said that, I would still prefer to copy the image to my site.”
And that is exactly what I’m trying to achive, I’m just wanting to automate the process of snaging the image, making it easier and more enjoyable instead of the tedious task of downloading, uploading and then referencing every image.

Thanks to macmanx’s link, this discussion is now purely one of principal, seeing as the script seems to work fairly well. Thanks again MM. I will use it for good and possibly for awesome.

No, I’m not kidding.

My point is to NOT steal the bandwidth.

This feature would copy the image from it’s current location to my server, it would have to move the image only once (perhaps slightly more than that if it could be made to be self repairing). I’m not suggesting this in an effort to rip someone off of their imagery or bandwidth, I would love to have a comment field as part of inserting a linked image that would create a hyperlink to their original page and let them get credit for the image.

And don’t give me that hot linking = theft crap. The point of the Internet is to share information and create a community. If I see some interesting product on Amazon.com or some neat article at /. then you can bet your ass I’m going to reference it in a post later on. If I can make my posts more visually appealing and get a reader more excited about what I’m sharing with them then I will do so in whatever way I can. I’m a photographer, and I understand that people can be sensitive about the use of their work. There are some sites that I wouldn’t link to or retrieve an image from. Penny-Arcade for example, because I have a lot of respect for a couple guys who make me laugh on a regular basis. But there are any number of situations where I feel that the use of an image in this fashion would not only be morally benign, but perhaps even of benifit to the parties who have generated that image a€“ I don’t know how much business I’ve drummed up for Newegg.com simply by posting an image of a product that I’d purchased or would like to purchase… only to have a friend email me and say that they’d bought it or were considering buying. I can’t convince you that I’m not out to screw anyone and claim credit for someone else’s images, you’re just going to have to have a little faith in humanity for once.

“I’ve been hit hard by hot linking – it’s not good and it cost me.”

That is a dark cloud over this Idea, I’ve owned and operated multiple sites that had problems with hot linking actually effect my bank account. negatively. This is something I’m trying to prevent, instead of costing someone a fraction of a cent in bandwidth a thousand times (every time the page is viewed) I’m only costing them the bandwidth for when I originally post it, the rest of the bandwidth for that image comes from my servers as the images is now stored there.

I would like to say however, that this is my first post here at the WordPress forums, and to have what I would consider a fairly benign question immediately assaulted makes me wonder if I like this place to stick around long. I’m honestly only trying to contribute to a great tool and the community.

And the one user who posted something actually constructive and useful gets all my thanks.