UPDATED: Version 2.8 released 11/14/05. Download now!
NOTE: Please note that this plugin doesn’t support Wordpress 2.3. However, you can find a wonderful remake here that does.
Yay! After a lot of work, the new version of the Image Headline Plugin is available. This plugin was originally written by Joel Bennett but it’s come a long way since the beginning. New features in this version include:
- Excellent integration into the WordPress 1.5 Strayhorn administration interface.
- Gorgeous anti-aliased, soft shadows.
- Easier than ever to configure.
So, if you’re ready to take a gander, go on and tell me what you think. If you do end up using the plugin, please leave me a comment here with a link to your site so I can see the results! I’d love to see what you guys come up with.
I finally got the plugin to work after trying for months. Turns out I was understanding the instructions wrong.
Anyways have a look: http://www.simplecountryliving.net/bookblog
Great plugin! Would anyone know of a way to create an alternative size of the image for just one category? In my layout there’s one category with a different width…
I love the plugin. Has anyone who’s gone to the 2.3 beta though had the title blow up on them? When I do the_title(‘-image-’), replacement dies and it all shows up (i.e. “-image-She-Hulk vs Hulk”)
Try placing outline:none in your CSS for “A” tag.
Is there a way to get rid of the border around the image? I even tried to set the border to 0 pixels and that didn’t work.
hi. thank you for this plugin. i’m currently using it on my other blog, http://mobsternetwork.akoniya.com/ and i have to tell you that this plugin is flawless. smile but i have one question though. is there a way to space the text?
for example
orginal text: headline
output text: h e a d l i n e
your input would be much appreciated.
Hi there…first off, thanks for this plugin! I’m using it for quit a long time now! But something strange happened and i can’t seem to find out whatsup?! The title now shows a border around it http://www.staygoldstudio.com/portfolio I’m switching layout at the moment and i can’t seem to get rid of this border. i’ve checked my css for it, but nothing there
Can you please help me with this strange thing…Manythanks in advance!
I am using version 2.7 I guess, as I can’t find a link to 2.8 or maybe the author just forgot to update the version inside the file !? here is the link: http://www.coldforged.org/image-headlines.tar.gz
besides that it is working for me (wp 2.2) will soon try to update to 2.2.1 and see if it still works.
Um hi, I’d like to use this plugin but I can’t find the download link. Can you email me the zip file?
Any chance of this being updated for WP 2.2? I would love to use this in a little project I’m working on, but it’s just not working in any way shape or form for me.
I would love to use this plug-in on my site, but I’ve been having troubles understanding the installion instructions. I find them a big ball of confuession. If it is not too much trouble could someone tell me step by step what I download and in what directory it goes. Sorry to be a pain. Just everytime I put things where I think they are supposed to go it doesn’t work. Maybe I just need to read instructions from someone else I’ll understand better!
Thanks a bunch!
I don’t know if it’s compatible to call up the title from your categories. I haven’t used this plugin for a while, but when I did use it and had it working an example of a sidebar title was in php tags:
echo ImageHeadlinerender( ‘Links’,'fontsize=18&leftpadding=0&maxwidth=200′ );
(That’s just one space in between echo and Image, I don’t know why it’s stretching it out.) So I’m telling it the title, which is Links, and then I’m giving it style info because they were different to my regular post title settings.
You seem to be missing an underscore and adding in italics.
Hope this works for you, sorry if it’s outdated.
God dammit! Last try (just noticed the preview at the bottom now, I’ve taken out the php tags and it should work now, doh!)
echo ImageHeadlinerender( singlecat_title() );
Appologies for the quick double post. It looks like it didn’t like the code i pasted. Here it is again (hopefully it works).
Hi,
I’m wondering if I can get some help with this plugin.
I have it working perfectly for the normal things but I’m trying to get it working with the category titles ont the category pages.
This is the code I’m using:
It doesn’t creat an image but instead just uses normal text. For example in the movies category it simply returns “Movies” and not an image+img tags.
I should have dug a little deeper >shame<. Answering my own question, yes this does work with 2.2 I needed to edit the index.php, not (or maybe in addition to) the page.php. User error strikes again. Thanks for the great design!
Is this working with WP 2.2? I just installed the plugin today, and while I’m not getting any error messages, I’m also not getting any image titles.
Looks like a beautiful plugin – hope I can figure out what’s keeping me from getting it working!
Gah, not uname. I can’t remember the the name of it.
Yes, your server is setup to run PHP files as the apache process instead of as you. These kinds of things are addressed via “uname”, I believe, but I’m no Unix expert.
Any idea why all the files created by the plugin are own by group 48 (rather than 501) on my server? Its means I unable to move my Wordpress installation.
is there a simply way to get this working WITHOUT wordpress? I simply want to use the great functionality in any php website to create text headers. did anyone already looked into this and want to share? I guess it can’t be that much work to make the current code wordpress independent, right?
Hello again!
A while back you helped me out with a problem (solution quoted below). I had to move the site (scarecrow.la) and the problem has reoccurred. Do you recall what the fix was for the open_basedir issue? For the life of me I can not remember what it was you had suggested/done to fix this. I recently deleted my email inbox – I’m sure the solution was in there
Hope all is going well!
i am working on setting up a standalone wordpress server for my company’s website, and we have pretty much troubleshot this all the way down to understanding that this plugin doesn’t work on wp 2.x.x (we’re running 2.1.3). specifically, on activation, the requisite files do not get written to the wp-admin folder. you may not be seeing an error in Options/Headlines if your 404 error template is not properly configured.
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Hi!!! I´ll appreciate a little help, because this plugin is simple awesome! Great work!!! Ok, let´s go. I don´t have any problems during the instalation, but when I activate it and go to the “Options/Headlines” I don´t find any option, nothing… Wordpress don´t show any error message too. When plugin is active the code “-image-” don´t appear in the title, but the title don´t transform into a image like we expect that happen. I´m using Wordpress 2.1, can be this the problem? I´m trying to use it a lot of days, and install and uninstall a lot of times, but I don´t know what happen… can you help me?! Pleeeeeease!!! The link of my wordpress is http://journal.rom-rom.org I´ll appreciate a reply!!! And sorry for my bad English! ^^ Daniele
Does this work with WP 2.0 and above?
I’m having a problem with the minimum height of the image headline. Even if the font size is 6pixels, the height always stays as 25 pixels. However, this will change (larger) when the font is over 25 pixels.
Is there a way to change the minimum height of the image headline?
By the way, I love this plugin and have been using it for a while. I would try editing the source myself if it wasn’t so over my head.
Hello there, I was wondering if there’s a way to have a strict height for the headline images. I’m trying to compose to a vertical rhythm. My image headline height is 25px, but the font should only be 18px.
I don’t understand why the image has an extra 6 pixels of space on the bottom (maybe for shadow perhaps?). Is there a way to strip the extra space, so that it’s a strict 18 pixels?
I changed my point size is 4pt, but it still shows up as 25 pixels. Seems like there’s a minimum height. Any way to change this?
By the way, I’ve been using the plugin for a while and I love it. If the code wasn’t so over my head, I’d try editing it myself.
Hi,
Managed to get the plugin setup but the ZIP file doesn’t work in Wordpress 2.0.7 whereas the tarball does. It appears to have different files featured in it. Anyway, congratulations on a brilliant plugin which I will be using for a long time to come!
I have a twist/suggestion on this.
We could probably do this and maintain accessibility and structural markup by using something like the Gilder/Levin Method or the Malarkey Image Replacement method. The former would allow for the images off/css on scenario, but sacrifice our XML semantics. The latter wouldn’t help with images off/css on, but would be structurally sound.
Anyway, this is probably a rather esoteric request. I may attempt to hack this up myself. The way to go about doing it would be to dynamically add a little css in the header section, adding the background images to the h2 post titles element and using the appropriate css IR technique.
Here are some links. http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/revised-image-replacement/#gilderlevin http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/mirimagereplacement.html
If I get this working I’ll give you a shout.
Hi! I use the image headlines plugin and love it. There just one problem. I use two different (soon to be 3) layouts and need the titles to have a different font and color in each one. Can you tell me how to set the font and color choices within my template files I have gotten the plugin to play nice on the sidebar and that lets me dictate size and words so there must be a way to dictate the other two variables…right?