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.
ColdForged Says:February 21st, 2005 at 11:10 am
Upon loading that font — found here for those curious — it seems that the font only contains capital letters. Therefore, any lower-case letters in your title will be displayed incorrectly.
abhi Says:February 21st, 2005 at 11:03 am
i am using it on my site and it simply works great with the default font. however, when i tried to use roxanne, it showed some weird characters. i downloaded the font for windows PC. what do you think could be the problem?!
ColdForged Says:February 21st, 2005 at 9:37 am
Actually, I can’t even find a place to download the plugin, so it may be difficult to find a solution
. Can I email you at the address you gave so you can email me back the plugin?
ColdForged Says:February 21st, 2005 at 9:31 am
Double-check your cache url and cache folder settings and make certain that they both point to the same place in your installation.
ColdForged Says:February 21st, 2005 at 9:30 am
What other plugins do you have installed? The only thing that I can think of is that someone is redefining the “ispluginpage()” function… I’ve seen at least one do that.
When you say your are unable to go back to the main page, what does that mean? It sounds like a navigation problem the way you state it which this plugin shouldn’t affect in the slightest. However, if you mean that the headlines work on the single-post page but not on the main page, you need to modify the “the_title()” call in all of the template files that you want the images displayed.
Note that in order to be able to do this you either need to call it from the template or use a plugin like RunPHP so that you can execute PHP code in your post or static page content.
Congratulations! You get “Funky Behavior Of The Day” award. (Note that I couldn’t load the file with the URL given, but this one worked just fine. To be honest, Chris, I haven’t a friggin’ clue what’s going on with that. What kind of host are you on? Any specific details of the hosting environment might help figure out what’s going on here.
Looks like a problem with your NiceTitles javascript implementation not handling things correctly. Do you have an URL where I can view this behavior?
I’ll see what I can do.
hipocratico Says:February 21st, 2005 at 9:27 am
Hi…newbie question…I don´t see any preview…on my admin panel…what is wrong…thanks
Jim Says:February 21st, 2005 at 4:49 am
FYI, a small conflict with the ‘view levels’ plugin which displays the image of a lock on post-titles with the viewlevel attribute on them. The image generated is for the text c=’/wp-images/padlock.gif’ border=’0′/><sup>1</sup>-image-… where ‘…’ is the post title. That’s followed by actual text of everything from ‘-image-’ onward, inclusive. It’s probably the viewlevels plugin that needs to be fixed but the published contact info for the author of it doesn’t seem to work any more.
a1ehouse Says:February 21st, 2005 at 3:57 am
Great plugin, however I’m getting a bug from somewhere. My pages load fine, and the png’s are generated/shown, however when I mouse over the image when using IE (only at work for me - ff at home) I get a page error:
Line: 98
Char: 5
Error: ‘nicetitle.length’ is null or not an object
Code: 0
Any one of a fix?
Chris Says:February 21st, 2005 at 3:04 am
First off, thanks for the plugin. I appreciate the time and effort that you’ve put into it. It’s a great idea to liven up the page.
I’ve having a little trouble with it, however. I have successfully installed it, but my images aren’t showing correctly. With the default color settings still in place, the images aren’t showing as described - red letters with a soft gray background shadow. Here’s an example of what it’s showing as instead:
http://www.digitalwilderness.net/wordpress/wp-content/image-headlines/361b6722ae6ffa1ede5a14c93a8af880.png
And this is without changing anything from the default, other than the “Image cache URL”
I’ve tried changing the colors, but the image usually shows as all white or all black…
I’ve made sure the appropriate directory is writable and checked to make sure images are being created as I’ve changed the options.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Kyle Says:February 21st, 2005 at 1:55 am
Anybody get non-titles to work, as described in comment #27? If so, could you post the code snippet? The call doesn’t seem to return anything. Thanks.