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>
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<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>
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<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.

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<p>This plugin adds several improvements to WordPress’ default way of creating excerpts.</p>
<ol>
<li>Keeps HTML markup in the excerpt (and you get to choose which tags are included)</li>
<li>Trims the excerpt to a given length using either character count or word count</li>
<li>Only the ‘real’ text is counted (HTML is ignored but kept)</li>
<li>Customizes the excerpt length and the ellipsis character that are used</li>
<li>Completes the last word or sentence in an excerpt (no weird cuts)</li>
<li>Adds a <em>read-more</em> link to the text</li>
<li>Ignores custom excerpts and use the generated one instead</li>
<li>Theme developers can use <code>the_advanced_excerpt()</code> for even more control (see the FAQ)</li>
</ol>
<p>Most of the above features are optional and/or can be customized by the user or theme developer.</p>
<p>Banner image credit – <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/chillihead/" rel="nofollow ugc">chillihead</a></p>
<p>Original plugin author – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/basvd" rel="nofollow ugc">basvd</a></p>
<p><strong>Useful Resources</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://fancythemes.com/what-is-wordpress/" rel="friend nofollow ugc">What is WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fancythemes.com/wordpress-themes" rel="friend nofollow ugc">Fee Themes</a> and <a href="https://fancythemes.com/wordpress-plugins/" rel="friend nofollow ugc">plugins</a></li>
</ul>


Advanced Excerpt

Control the appearance of WordPress post excerpts

Polaroid on the Fly vs Advanced Excerpt