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Written by Mark

Born and raised in Detroit, c. 323 ppm CO2, Mark Graf is a Michigan photographer, naturalist, and diver whose muse is summoned by exploring the endless connections in nature; land, sea, and sky.

Sunday, February 4, 2007

Canvasbacks in flight Copyright Mark Graf grafphoto.comWordPress rocks. I have just updated to the latest version 2.1 – which was pretty painless. I had to do some cleanup in my sidebar because of manual tweaks I was doing – but now that they have implemented link categories – I can now group my links how I have always wanted them to be. I am still exploring some of the new features in this ‘minor’ update.

I have also implemented the Lightbox plugin, which I think is a pretty nice feature for displaying images. Just click on the thumbnail in this post and you will see it go into action! I am a bit torn whether I like them full sized within the blog post or as thumbnails. So some of the images I have posted previously now have this enhancement. This plugin requires you to manually add “rel=”lightbox”” to your image tags though, which is a bit cumbersome, I wish this could be done automatically.

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6 Comments

  1. Mark

    Ugh – sorry to hear you are having so much trouble Cindy. I wish I knew what other suggestions to provide.

  2. Cindy

    me again. I updated my wordpresss version, have the latest version of lightbox in my plugins folder, edited the header text.. and nothing! Did you copy the entire lightbox css into your existing stylesheet? argh!!
    thanks for any help buddy 🙂
    (you can comment here, I enabled the followups feature.. another neat plug in that I think I’ll leave alone for awhile.. LOL

  3. Cindy

    I didn’t know of the lightbox feature myself.. it rocks.. off to explore more!

  4. Paul

    That plugin is pretty cool! I still like the fill size images, though. 🙂

  5. Michael Brown

    Well, did not know that we had that option Mark!
    Will have to check it out!

  6. Howard Grill

    I really like your new Lightbox plug in! In addition to viewing the image at larger size the gray/black background it is presented on really makes it stand out.