Zeltus

When I first created this blog, my un-optimized MySQL installation very quickly barfed and I had to re-compile and re-install it.

As it was brand-new, all that happened was that I lost my first few posts. I am now taking the time to re-write this particular one.

I really don’t get on with the WordPress Way of adding images to my posts. I’ve written a number of PHP functions that allow me to easily enter image data into my HTML with, for me, great ease. I therefore decided to create a similar function to allow me to insert images into my blog posts. And thus blotto was written. The clever-clever name is a sort of corruption of “blog-photo”.

This extremely simple function allowed me, thanks to the excellent Exec-PHP plug-in, to insert a pre-prepared thumbnail image of a photo and hook into Lightbox (another excellent plug-in) to display the full-size image. And to achieve this, all I needed to do was insert a single line of code in my post…

<?php blotto("Charlies_rear"); ?>

And hey presto! I get

It really didn’t take me very long to realise that I needed a number of variants of this function – and so I ended up with the following four routines.

• blotto – (blog-photo) Insert a lighbox’d photo in a post
• flickr – provide a link to a flickr set
• blink – (blog-link) Provide a graphical link to a web-page, internal or external
• baphic -(blog-graphic) Display a picture. That’s all

And so I re-wrote my blog_functions.php file to include these functions. And I also wrote a full set of documentation.

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