Photography and Writing by A. Cemal Ekin
I have been using NextGEN Gallery on my site since its first availability as a beta version plugin. I remember Alex Rabe writing on one of the forums that he would be releasing a new gallery plugin that would impress all. He was right! I was quite pleased with the ease of organizing all the …
Designing a WordPress site is not terribly complex so long as you pay attention to some critical parts. One of these critical components is the theme used on the site. There are literally thousands upon thousands of themes in the free WordPress collection and probably just as much in the premium themes group where you …
A Little Background I started teaching a course which was considered a cutting edge topic in 1995, Marketing on the Internet and Web Design, MOTI as the students used to call it. At the time, most people did not even know what the Internet was and those who knew flamed any user in any context …
With a brief post, I alerted the subscribed visitors of the pending change to the site appearance and it is already done. I have been using the StudioPress Genesis framework with one of their child themes that essentially provides the external appearance. I wanted to change to a child theme that provided a little more …
Happy 2016, may it bring peace, happiness, health and wealth to all! Well, we are in a new year, and so far it has been a good one. Our health is reasonably good, Jan has almost fully recovered from her unfortunate accident and partial hip replacement, Elif and Mina are doing fine, we managed to …
(Image credit All About Jazz which states that the origin of the image is unknown) In his version of Hello Dolly, Sinatra sings “Blow your horn, Louie, …” addressing Louis Armstrong. Inspired by that, I am going to blow my own horn a little if you don’t mind! Those who follow this blog are familiar …
(Minor geek-alert, some parts may appear too technical.) I have been using WordPress since its early days and even made it a part of my course Marketing on the Internet when I was teaching. It has grown to be a robust, well-supported, and highly popular content management platform over the years. The WordPress team delivers …
Thank you all for visiting the Kept Light Photography Web site. I have been maintaining this site as a repository for my photographs, writings on various subjects, and family memories. Take a look at some reminders from 2014 and read on … Thanks to your keeping up with my site and many referrals from search …
I have been a fan of WordPress for quite some time now. I have used it in my teaching of Marketing on the Internet and Web Design course for many years, and as a Web developer, I have deployed many WordPress sites for many clients. Over time, it has matured and turned into a very …
Addendum: I have switched back to NextGEN Gallery since they cleaned the problems, and I did not get much support from the Nextcellent Gallery developer. For whatever it is worth, I wanted to share this information, but the post is still worth reading. NextGEN The Beginning I have been using NextGEN Gallery since its beta …
This week several things came together in a very fruitful way. The Photographic Society of Rhode Island (PSRI) had expressed an interest in a members’ forum at the last board meeting, Packt Publishing contacted me to review a book bbPress Complete by Rhys Wynne, I have found out the WP eMember plugin that manages membership …
Update: See note at the end, that’s good news; kind of. I have been a fan of NextGEN Gallery, a plugin to WordPress to manage image assets since it came into the scene. It is easy to use, capable of interfacing with different presentation styles, until recently well-supported. It has many users, and deservedly so. …
This post is here just to test the JetPack Tiled Gallery feature. (11/19/2014 I have disabled the Tiled Gallery feature since that module on JetPack insists on using Photon service even though the latter is disabled. This post is here only to make sure there is no broken link. You will not see Tiled Gallery …
Those visitors who come to KeptLight.com with some regularity might have noticed the stylistic changes. I have also implemented more structural and substantive changes to make your visit more pleasant (I hope) and informative. Here are the changes in a list: A new theme that is open, clean, and easy to maintain (the last one …
I have been using WordPress.com Stats plugin on my site, along with other sites that I install and manage. Lately, I have noticed sluggish page loads and tried to find the source of it. The FireBug add-on to Firefox has facilities to show what loads and how fast. Among the scripts that load was …
I use NextGEN Gallery in combination with HighSlide to present a group of images. In between the two is the useful plugin WS-Highslide which embeds the HS code on every page automatically on the fly. On some occasions, especially on sites that I build for others, I want to add a title to the …
Note: After trying this technique for a week or so, I have found it to be too fragile when editing the post. At any time, because of an accidental opening in the “Visual” edit mode you may lose a line or two, crippling the Highslide effect. I am abandoning this idea for the time being, …
