I posted briefly about this years ago – and it seems it’s finally happening. And by ‘seems’ I mean ‘is due for release in 10 days!’.George RR Martins Game of Thrones series is probably my favorite book series ever. The...
Moving the crop position used to be the most requested TimThumb feature – but then I added it, and so something else had to step up and replace it.The next most requested feature is proportional image scaling. To be honest,...
This month is a little late very late I’m afraid. I was in San Francisco at the start of March (for the Game Developers Conference) so wasn’t able to write up the statistics as on time as I would have...
Ever heard the saying, ‘the more I learn the less I know’? I often feel that way with WordPress! I like to think that my knowledge of WordPress is above average, but I keep learning new things, and they keep...
February 14th is Valentines Day; a day when many of us lavish extra time and attention on our loved ones. We treat them extra special, buy them some flowers, maybe do some cooking – basically we show them just how...
I read a few websites that share their traffic statistics and I find the whole process fascinating. The stats themselves don’t really interest me. What does interest me is the analysis that goes with it. Why did this month get...
The Google Code blog has recently announced a new method for modifying code committed to the site. They have created an online code editor that can be used by anyone.This is fantastic for people who want to contribute to any...
Ok – I know we’re almost a month into 2011, but I wanted to make a record of my plans for the coming year.Last year I did quite well with my plans. The best news was that, at the end...
Do you want to increase the page views on your website? Everyone does right? Well this is something I have been spending a lot of time thinking about, and I recently found out something quite surprising.In hindsight I probably shouldn’t...
Recently, when I haven’t been working on WPAdvent, I have been tweaking and improving TimThumb. In fact there’s been a couple of cool new features added that make it a much more useful peice of kit.The big changes boil down...
In January or February this year I had the idea of making some sort of advent calendar website for christmas. I wanted to share something with the online community – I just wasn’t sure what.In mid October I started thinking...
I’m not by nature a particularly jealous person, but seeing other people get loads and loads of Twitter followers I can’t help but be a little envious. It’s human nature – we all want to be more popular or more...
Speeding up a websites loading time is so good for so many reasons, so it’s understandable that people want to use a CDN (Content Delivery Network) to serve their images, however in the case of TimThumb there’s a right way...
I often get asked questions about TimThumb and why it doesn’t work in certain situations. I can generally tell what is wrong with the script within about 60 seconds of being sent a demo url. Below are my top tips...
It’s no longer spring but it’s always worth spending some time tidying up your website. In this article I am going to show an easy way to clean up the dead articles on your site which will increase the overall...
In my never-ending quest to improve Binary Moon I have investigated hub pages, an easy way to link relevant content.Hub pages are a single page on your site that is targeted to one specific keyword or key phrase. This keyword...
I am currently beta testing a new website called Optimizely – a super simple A/B testing product… and it’s gotten me thinking.A/B testing is a process that allows you to optimize your website for your users. You create one or...
It seems like forever ago now but I have just realised I haven’t yet announced Nominate here on Binary Moon.Anyway, at the start of July, I released a new theme called Nominate. This is the public version of the theme...
Moving the crop position around is by far the most popular feature that has been requested for TimThumb. And today it has been officially released!To be honest the cropping code was something I had put off as I wanted to...
So far I have documented the basic TimThumb functionality, and how to resize images that are on external domains and now things can get interesting. In this part I will talk about some of the features that have been available...
Of all the TimThumb feature requests the most popular are being able to crop an image from a specified location, and being able to load images from external websites. Resizing images from external images was added at the start of...