Using images is a great way to add visual content to your WordPress site. But for this to be really effective, you need to use image titles, alt text and descriptions. Read on to find out why and how you can do this. What is metadata? Metadata provides information about the other data on a… [Read More]
How to Create a Responsive Image Gallery on your WordPress Blog
Using images is key to any blog, and the best way to showcase your images is with a Responsive Image Gallery. Images – photos, graphics and the like – add visual appeal to your WordPress blog. This gets you a better response and return traffic. But you need to display them properly by using way… [Read More]
How to Use a Photo Gallery for your DIY WordPress Blog
Using a photo gallery on your DIY blog can give you an advantage. Whether you blog about a DIY project, craft or hobby, using good quality images can set you apart from the competition. Here are our reasons for using one. There are thousands of DIY blogs and websites available online. From home projects to… [Read More]
FooGallery – Now with Retina Creation and Display Support
FooGallery has just been updated to v1.2.18. It comes with two big features, one for end users and one for developers. Look for this version in your updates list or on the .org repo. This post will cover the new retina support. Look for the developer feature post coming in a few days. What Is… [Read More]
4 Rules for Using Images on Your Website
If you have a food blog, a how-to website or if selling online is your thing, then you should be using images online. In fact, anyone who wants their website to get noticed these days should be using the right images. Now this sounds completely obvious, but so many websites do it wrong. Here are… [Read More]
How to Make a WordPress Resource Links Gallery with FooGallery and FooGrid
Our new FooGrid template for FooGallery was released recently and days after, we released an update with a new External Link feature. This new feature has a variety of uses such as creating a visual resource list, a slick portfolio, and even a gallery of affiliate products. Here’s an Example Click a thumbnail to open… [Read More]
How to Create an Online Video Course in WordPress
If you search Google for “how to create a video course with WordPress” you’ll get a nice list of plugins designed for that very purpose. Most of them come packed with features specific to course management and running membership-type sites. But what if you don’t need all those features? What if you just want to… [Read More]
Create a Staff Listing in WordPress
In this post, we’ll show you how to exactly how to create a staff listing or team directory using our free FooGallery plugin with WordPress. Whether you’re building sites for clients or for your own business, giving visitors an option to see the people behind the business is important. Not only is great for personalizing… [Read More]
How to Create a YouTube Video Gallery in WordPress
Embedding a single YouTube video in WordPress is much easier these days than it used to be. Because WordPress has built-in oEmbed support for YouTube, you simply paste a YouTube video url into the Visual Editor and it will be embedded automatically. But what if you want to create and display an entire YouTube video… [Read More]
Two Free WordPress Themes for Photobloggers (Video)
A few days ago Themeshaper announced the release of Boardwalk and Cubic, two beautiful new themes that display image-specific content in very unique ways. Because we’re always on the lookout to share tools that our Photography and Photoblogger uses can take advantage of, we decided to play with with a bit and show you how… [Read More]
Gems of Docs: FooBox OnLoad Shortcode
Seriously, ask yourself this question: “Is there anything FooBox CAN’T do!?” I mean, it’s a lightbox for images, galleries, maps, videos, slides, PDFs, forms. Now this short article will show you how it can also be a lead generation tool. FooBox OnLoad Shortcode First, go check out our detailed documentation on making FooBox load when… [Read More]
Gems of Docs: Embed PDFs with FooBox Lightbox
Reliably embedding PDFs in a website is not as straight-forward as one might think. This is primarily because each browser handles PDFs differently. Some treat it only as a file, others as media, and Chrome even created its own unique PDF viewer. This means that users in every different browser will have a different experience… [Read More]
Slides.com and FooBox
As a frequent presenter in various venues, I always have an eye out for new and unique tools for doing presentations. Gone are the days when PowerPoint ruled the presentation ecosphere. A favorite among WordCamp presenters is SpeakerDeck. It’s great because it has some really useful social sharing options. You can follow “speakers” and get… [Read More]
Gems of Docs: Custom Captions in FooBox
Today I’m starting a new series called “Gems of Docs”. I want to use this to highlight some features of our plugins that we’ve documented, but that seem overlooked. I also want to highlight great use-cases for how you can implement them on your site to excellent effect. Custom Captions in FooBox To kick off… [Read More]
How to Enlarge Thumbnails in the Media Library
Our friend Nick Ciske has recently released the Media Thumbnail Enlarger plugin for free on the WordPress repository. What This Plugin Does This plugin increases the size of the media library thumbnails seen when viewing your WordPress Media Library page. By default, it uses the thumbnail size as determined in your WordPress Media Settings. This… [Read More]
WordPress 3.9 Image Galleries and FooBox Walkthrough
The first Beta version of WordPress 3.9 is out and available for testing. There are a lot of great features included in this release and in this post we’ll focus on one of our favorites, the enhanced image gallery previews and upload method. The Setup I am running the WordPress Beta Tester plugin on my… [Read More]
How to Share Code Snippets Across a Distributed Team
As you may know, the FooPlugins.com team is distributed across the world. Some in the United States (Florida and California), and some in South Africa. When we first released our free and premium WordPress and jQuery plugins, we quickly found out that customers were sending support tickets with very similar questions. We needed a way… [Read More]
FooBox Easter Egg – Different Lightbox WordPress Styles for Individual FooBoxes
The FooBox lightbox plugin makes it easy to globally add a responsive lightbox in WordPress to your images, complete with lightbox theme and color choices. With the release of FooBox 2.0, you can now add lightboxes to individual video and HTML elements as well. But what if you want add different lightbox WordPress styles to… [Read More]
Using NextGen 2 with FooBox
NextGen Gallery has over 7.5 million downloads on the WordPress repository. That’s an amazing number. It’s a Gallery plugin like no other. For this whole time it’s been completely free and they have provided support through the WordPress repository as much as possible. But with that many downloads support and development become more and more… [Read More]
Wrestling WordPress Categories Into Submission
If you’re creating fresh, new content on your WordPress website (like you ought to be!), then you’ve no doubt run into the WordPress categories feature. Whether your site is devoted to nothing but blogging, or you’ve got a business website with a blog components, it’s important to do a little big-picture planning and pay attention… [Read More]