Blog: Website development
I have been using the NextGen Gallery plugin for WordPress to handle image galleries. The admin interface is easy to use, even for my clients. Unfortunately the plugin outputs the images into Flash movie, which I wasn’t happy with- so I’ve written code to output the images into a Javascript scroller, which is far more customisable. I can change the next/previous image buttons to suit the style of the website, and I can add a number or thumbnail for each image if I wish.
I continue to use WordPress as my primary choice for a website CMS. Occasionally, a website’s needs exceed the core functionality. Luckily it’s core functions are written with PHP so extending them is an easy job (unlike ExpressionEngine… cough!). I’m going to list some custom functions I’ve created on this blog to help you fellow WordPressers out there.
Today I needed use the ‘wp_list_pages’ function, but to only list the tree (ie. itself and it’s children) of a certain post. The existing function has arguments for ‘include’, ‘exclude’, ‘exclude_tree’ – but ‘include_tree’ is missing. Therefore I created my own function to do this.
I originally designed the website for Working Group five years ago, as one of my first freelance projects. The original website was built with Flash in order to offer an unrestricted font choice and provide simple fade effects.
Old website - homepage
Convert Flickr metadata to Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop presets
22 July 2009
FlickrPhotography
Website development
Flickr allows photo metadata to be shown with each photo. The metadata contains shooting information about the photo- eg shutter speed, aperture etc. It can also contain the RAW conversion settings used to process the original RAW photo file. Therefore it’s possible to copy across the settings into your own Lightroom or Photoshop presets to create a similar ‘look’ for your own photos.
After quickly getting tired of copying settings across manually, I developed a tool which will output a Lightroom or Photoshop preset file based on the metadata found for that Flickr photo. Simply enter the full URL of the photo into the tool below and you’re away!
It is limited to photos which have metadata publicly available. Also custom point tone curve information isn’t converted- as the Flickr metadata page unfortunately doesn’t show all it.
Let me know if you have any suggestions or find any bugs. If you find it useful and have a website, please link to this blog post.
UPDATE 05/05/2010: Flickr doesn’t show the processing settings on their metadata page anymore – so unfortunately this converter won’t work any longer. Hope you enjoyed it whilst you had time to use it. Since it’s creation it’s done 3962 conversions!
I’ll be using this blog to give a number of web design and development tutorials and tips. Today i’m going to explain how to pull your photos from Flickr onto your website, like on my homepage. If you already have a WordPress website you can use the Flickr Widget to do the hard work for you. If you don’t, or wish to customise how your Flickr photos are displayed, read on…
Flickr API integration on my (now old) website