<p>If you are used to link the ‘previous’ and ‘next’ posts on a wordpress blog using their own title, you have probably noticed how more often than not too long titles can cause broken lines, hence unpredictable results in terms of page layout.</p>
<p>The only workaround in wordpress so far was to replace the title of the posts with generic phrases like ‘next post’, ‘previous post’ and so on. With this plugin you can use the title of the post itself, and trim it as needed.</p>
<p>Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>limits the length of the previous and next post titles to the number of characters you want</li>
<li>where necessary, truncates the title to the last space, adding three dots</li>
<li>shows the entire title of the post in the tooltip (mysteriously wordpress never considers the tooltips of the links)</li>
<li>sets the string that conditionally will appear before the link title, only if the link title itself is present (previously in wordpress you either had to add a string outside of the ‘next/previous post’ tag, thus causing it to appear in the page even if the link was not present, or you had to add the string inside the link generated by wordpress, with ugly results: for example if the string was just a simple dividing character like ‘|’)</li>
</ul>


Better Adjacent Post Links

Adds two enhanced commands to replace wordpress 'previous post' and 'next post' functions. Works with Wordpress 2.8+.

Matt Martz

<p>Creates polaroids of images on the fly for thumbnails in posts. Support for lightbox included. Built on modified Polaroid-o-nizer v0.7.2 sources.</p>
<p>I wanted to mimic the Polaroid look that you can achieve with Google Picasa to add thumbnails to my posts. I found a plugin titled WP-Polaroidonizer that did what I wanted to some extent but it didn’t have the right feel to it.</p>
<p>The other problem I have with Polaroid-o-nizer and WP-Polaroidonizer is the lack of security. When I mention lack of security there is by default no way to restrict external sites and users from generating Polaroid pictures using your installation of Polaroid-o-nizer.</p>
<p>The goal of this plugin was to use rel= style html img tags to transform a simple URL into a Lightbox URL in which there is a thumbnail image in your post which is linked to an image that can be loaded using Lightbox or any of the Lightbox clones/alternatives.</p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ol>
<li>PHP GD Module</li>
<li>Lightbox – Not really a requirement but a recommendation if you want to have a nice ajax/javascript image overlay on your page.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Upgrade</h3>
<ol>
<li>Deactivate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress</li>
<li>Delete the previous <code>polaroid-on-the-fly</code> folder from the <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> directory</li>
<li>Upload the new <code>polaroid-on-the-fly</code> folder to the <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> directory</li>
<li>Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress</li>
</ol>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Create an image link in your post in the following format:</p>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Be sure to include <code>rel="polaroid"</code> as this activates the plugin.</p>
</li>
<li>If <code>alt="Picture[album]"</code> is included the portion listed here as Picture will be displayed as the image title in Lightbox and the portion listed as <code>[album]</code> will group multiple pictures into an album called album. The alt tag is not required and if used the <code>[album]</code> portion is not required. Read the Lightbox usage for more details on Titles and albums.</li>
<li>Be sure to place each html img tag on a separate line.</li>
<li>This plugin supports the following image formats: jpg, png, gif</li>
</ol>
<h4>NOTE:</h4>
<p>Do not use the visual editor for doing the above use the code editor.</p>
<h3>To Do</h3>
<ol>
<li>Add features for x and y offset</li>
<li>Add features for rotation angle</li>
<li>Add additional error reporting for the offset and angle</li>
<li>Add functionality to options page to generate a URL for placement elsewhere on the site.</li>
<li>Add functionality to cache the polaroid images.</li>
</ol>


Polaroid on the Fly

Creates polaroids of images on the fly for thumbnails in posts. Support for lightbox included. Built on modified Polaroid-o-nizer v0.7.2 sources.

Better Adjacent Post Links vs Polaroid on the Fly