Connect Simply » plugin http://www.connectsimply.com/blog Creating Personal Touch in a High Tech World Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:10:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Adding Photos to Your Blog http://www.connectsimply.com/blog/adding-photos-to-your-blog/ http://www.connectsimply.com/blog/adding-photos-to-your-blog/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:37:44 +0000 Heidi Caswell http://www.connectsimply.com/blog/?p=810 photo credit: seyed mostafa zamani Three years back I wrote a post about why you shouldn’t grab images from google images and post to your blog. I love photos, both taking my own, and viewing the work of others. I’m amazed at the talent out there. Love that through flickr we have images we have [...]

Adding Photos to Your Blog

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Creative Commons License photo credit: seyed mostafa zamani
Three years back I wrote a post about why you shouldn’t grab images from google images and post to your blog.

I love photos, both taking my own, and viewing the work of others. I’m amazed at the talent out there. Love that through flickr we have images we have permission to use through creative commons. (Not all Flickr images, just ones which give permission.)

Yet, it is extra time to find the images, upload them to my post, add proper credits and I’ve been wishing for a plugin to do such, just hadn’t taken the time to search for such before now.

Enter Photo Dropper. You can search for it under add new plugins in your admin panel, install, activate. With you mouse wherever you want to add an image, scroll down, way below where you type in your post and you’ll find photo dropper browse photos. Better yet, click on the photo dropper icon by your other add media buttons.

Type in your keyword, photos pop up, pick one, click on what size you want and it is inserted into your post. Viola! Couldn’t be easier!

Do go to settings after you install your plugin, then photo dropper. Make sure the for commercial use button in checked.

Thank you photo dropper, now if only the photo was uploaded to my media library instead of linking through flickr, so the thumbnails would show up in certain themes which do such.

Adding Photos to Your Blog

]]> http://www.connectsimply.com/blog/adding-photos-to-your-blog/feed/ 1 Adding Tweet This Plugin to WordPress http://www.connectsimply.com/blog/adding-tweet-this-plugin-to-wordpress/ http://www.connectsimply.com/blog/adding-tweet-this-plugin-to-wordpress/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:38:24 +0000 Heidi Caswell http://www.connectsimply.com/blog/?p=611 I created a video to show some friends how to add a tweet this button to their blog posts (on wordpress). Tweet this adds a button to the bottom of your posts, making it easy for your readers to tweet what you say. It can be set to shorten the url’s, add facebook, digg, stumble [...]

Adding Tweet This Plugin to WordPress

]]> I created a video to show some friends how to add a tweet this button to their blog posts (on wordpress). Tweet this adds a button to the bottom of your posts, making it easy for your readers to tweet what you say. It can be set to shorten the url’s, add facebook, digg, stumble upon, plurk etc buttons.

There are many, many twitter tools, some of which are wordpress plugins. Plugins add functionality to your website. I think they are very cool. Only add and activate plugins which you want to use on your website. Sometimes a plugin may have a conflict with another plugin. So I prefer adding one new plugin at a time, making sure my wordpress website still works, etc. Some plugins, too many plugins may slow down the load time of your site. Have the plugins you use serve a purpose.

Twitter Plugins for WordPress

Auto Tweet Your Posts

Adding Tweet This Plugin to a WordPress Blog (and you can do the same thing to add other plugins–a fun thing to do).

Adding Tweet This Plugin to WordPress

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