Fortunately, 90% of the work is done when you have photos of your subject. At bare minimum you can include a paragraph consisting of what it is, what scale its in, when you built it, what you built it from, and (if you like) any personal thoughts on the build.
This may sound easy, but a [...]
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Quick guide for contributers
Sidebar links: your sidebar link (which goes on the index page and throughout the site) links to your contributor archive page(s) If you would like to create your own image for this link the required size is 290px by 50px otherwise one will be created for you from images you’ve provided.
We encourage you to link [...]
Quick guide for contributers
Sidebar links: your sidebar link (which goes on the index page and throughout the site) links to your contributor archive page(s) If you would like to create your own image for this link the required size is 290px by 50px otherwise one will be created for you from images you’ve provided.
We encourage you to link [...]
Choose a thumbnail for display
When your done writing and editing your post, go down to the Custom Fields tab, and either choose (from the dropdown box) or type in Thumbnail (case sensitive) put the full file path to the thumbnail image you want to display on the front page and in excerpts into the values field.
Remember to click the [...]
Scrolly thing works, lightbox is deactivated
The scrolly thing is actually called the features gallery, which is very cool but unfortunately there’s a conflict with the javascript for lightbox, so for the time being the lightbox feature has been deactivated.
Remember how not so long ago we had to do custom fields in order to show thumbnail images on the first page?
The [...]
New theme!
And with new themes there are a few differences. The main ones are:
Bios and authors pages are now automatically created. If you do not have a gravatar (aka Globally Recognized Avatar) one will be provided for you automatically (in the form of a silly cartoon monster.) If you’d like to maintain your dignity go get [...]
How to write a post
Fortunately, 90% of the work is done when you have photos of your subject. At bare minimum you can include a paragraph consisting of what it is, what scale its in, when you built it, what you built it from, and (if you like) any personal thoughts on the build.
This may sound easy, but a [...]
User Roles
When you’re added to MMM you may not notice right away which role you’ve been assigned. Odds are you’ve been designated either an author or contributor. Each role in WP has specific privileges, here’s the pithy rundown:
The first role is Subscriber, this user has permission to read. We are not employing the Subscriber role to [...]
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ZD player (flv files only!)
The plugin that we’re using for flash .flv files is the ZD YouTube FLV player. To make it work all you need to do is to ad the code
[ zdvideo ]url[ /zdvideo ]
into a post (without the spaces.) This can either be the youtube url (which we really don’t want) of the url to which [...]
How to write a post
Fortunately, 90% of the work is done when you have photos of your subject. At bare minimum you can include a paragraph consisting of what it is, what scale its in, when you built it, what you built it from, and (if you like) any personal thoughts on the build.
This may sound easy, but a [...]
User Roles
When you’re added to MMM you may not notice right away which role you’ve been assigned. Odds are you’ve been designated either an author or contributor. Each role in WP has specific privileges, here’s the pithy rundown:
The first role is Subscriber, this user has permission to read. We are not employing the Subscriber role to [...]
Quick guide for contributers
Sidebar links: your sidebar link (which goes on the index page and throughout the site) links to your contributor archive page(s) If you would like to create your own image for this link the required size is 290px by 50px otherwise one will be created for you from images you’ve provided.
We encourage you to link [...]
Choose a thumbnail for display
When your done writing and editing your post, go down to the Custom Fields tab, and either choose (from the dropdown box) or type in Thumbnail (case sensitive) put the full file path to the thumbnail image you want to display on the front page and in excerpts into the values field.
Remember to click the [...]
Scrolly thing works, lightbox is deactivated
The scrolly thing is actually called the features gallery, which is very cool but unfortunately there’s a conflict with the javascript for lightbox, so for the time being the lightbox feature has been deactivated.
Remember how not so long ago we had to do custom fields in order to show thumbnail images on the first page?
The [...]
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