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WPX: The Post Thumbnail, Enhanced

Often you want to highlight a title of an article putting aside an image, more appropriately a thumbnail. WordPress offers a function for that scope, the_post_thumbnail. In order to make use of it, you need to activate the relative support, and to set a Featured Image in the proper panel while editing the post. To make things easier, you can [...more]

Martyrs’ Square

Google Maps, Martyn's Square, Tripoli, Libia

Probably naively, I’ve always looked at Google as the big brother, born from good intention and eventually grown up not that far from the original project. I’m quite attentive about the choices made by huge corporations regarding Human Rights in critical areas of the globe and about matters as privacy. It’s news of today that, as soon as the rebels [...more]

The Art of Jean Giraud, aka Moebius

The Art of Jean Giraud, aka Moebius

This week I’ll sum up a selection of artworks of Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, French comic book artist, now a day very famous. His style makes me dream about future visionary World, characterized by mysticism. I personally adore his style. His draws, even apparently minimal while in pure black & white, show an impressive level of details, and dynamism. As [...more]

The Art of Pascal Blanché

Heavymetal, artwork by Pascal Blanché

Time to time I look for or get in touch with illustrators in order to proceed on ideas I want to propose to clients. Recently the task was to get inspired from the most skilled comic artists of the last century. Some of their works are unreachable for the most. I love to observe and analyze the visionary worlds and [...more]

Keep your CSS in order, for your own good

Start now to keep your CSS in order: you'll thank youself sooner than you may expect!

Commenting and titling your code may seem superfluous to a beginner, but sure like taxes if you keep going designing website you will have to come back to old projects. More than that, when other designers open your code, necessarily they need to understand what you did and how. Perhaps also why. The sooner you’ll tune your syntax, the more [...more]

You don’t need TimThumb, use add_image_size for Thumbnails

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How to use add_image_size and the_post_thumbnail in our themes. Being TimThumb still an excellent plugin, it’s time to give him a break: we have better ways to manage thumbnails in WordPress. No doubt that TimThumb is a wonderful script. It allowed me to avoid the tangle to re-upload pictures for old articles when switching to a new theme. I thought [...more]