WordPress fun

I have been talking to the President of the Georgia Hummer Study Group (Rusty Trump) about a re-design and such for his webpage. I had a fun idea, so I threw a quick WordPress install up as a test, added a nice theme and fixed the header image.. etc. So far, it’s looking pretty nice. I can find pretty much any plugin I like for it, so I went looking for a wysiwyg editor, because I know he doesn’t have all the time in the world to learn HTML. I tried Wysi-Wordpress first, but it has a bad habit of not closing image tags if you add the image first. The align=right function didn’t work stunningly well either, so I went looking for another. I fell in love with FCKeditor, but it’s not really an easy install. Then, I stumbled upon Chenpress. It’s WordPress plugin that uses FCKeditor! Love of loves… It’s even drag and drop. I installed it not really expecting much, but it sure surprised the hell out of me. It’s stunning. You can open up two web pages (ex: the gallery and the post) and drag an image from one to the post you’re making. Right clicking on the image gives to an edit menu, where you can tell the image you’re now linking to be either left, right, or center aligned, and more! The thing works just like a Word document. It’s so easy to use, I had to install it here, even though I don’t really need to use a wysiwyg editor.

On an even cooler note, I got an e-mail on September the 26th from Mr. Trump’s wife, Cheryl about the photos I took at the Georgia Hummingbird Festival. She wanted to use them in the quarterly newsletter for all of Georgia! She said she’s give me photo-credit and list my web page so people could see them in color. Then she asked me to be the official photographer for the festival next year! I don’t know exactly what that involves on their part, but I figured I’d be there anyway.. 🙂 I might even get in for free and get a cool tee-shirt or something.

Note: This whole post was made with the Chenpress editior. Love!