By default, the image upload tool build into Wordpress creates thumbnail images. So when the user clicks “send to editor” the image rendered will be a thumbnail of the original image uploaded. Wordpress renders this by placing “.thumbnail” The file “/wp-admin/inline-uploading.php” is used to render image thumbnails. Lines 81-85 dictate a maximum width of 128 pixels or a maximum height of 96 pixels. Perhaps in future versions of Wordpress the width and height pixel values will be an option in the Wordpress administration. after the image name and between the image extension:

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By default all Wordpress posts viewed as a single post are controlled by the particular theme's "single.php" file.

Wordpress, by default is setup to use one template file ("single.php") for every post.(But what if you wanted to display a different layout or different code dependent on the specific categories a post or filed into?

To do this with Wordpress; one needs to use a bit of PHP in the "single.php" file and create category specific files.

On a recent job, the client consistently demanded a splash page for their website. Despite my consistent groans and insistence that the implementation of a splash page on their website would instantly turn it, them and me to the dark side, I gave in.

I reluctantly implemented a quick solution using Wordpress. I used php to check if the user was referred to the index page from within the site or from out with the site.

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