The standard wordpress gallery works pretty well BUT it doesn’t paginate. So if I have 150 photos to put in a post the page becomes huge!
I decided to have a go at fixing this with a custom wordpress plugin. It’s the first one I’ve written but it works really well.

You can download it here or at the official WordPress Plugin page here

Installation
Simply unzip into your /wp-content/plugins folder – then activated it in your wordpress admin panel.
Options can be set in the settings menu under ‘paginated gallery’.
Choose the number of images you want per page and also choose if you would like it to work using the standard [ gallery ] shorttag.
If you choose no then the shorttag [ paginated_gallery ] is used

I use this on my own site here – click here for a demo

Any questions – leave me a comment

A little bit concerning until I noticed the link they sent me was to a domain I bought 2 years ago. I bought it to set another car club up on, installed vbulletin and then lost interest. The main site had a “coming soon” page on – but if you visited /forums/ you got the vbulletin forum.

The site had over 15,000 spam bots registered, posting mostly russian porn. Over 160,000 pornographic posts to be more accurate.

The site was using 2.2gb on my server and transferring 28gb per month in bandwidth. EEK!

So quick pro-tip to all you web devs and server admins out there, don’t leave vbulletin running unmonitored! Haha

I like to view re-developing existing systems as a point of change for the better, where existing processes within a company can be analysed and optimised. That way the company can save some money, and everyone can be a little bit happier in there job.

However I always find that other staff within companies are reluctant to change, they know how they currently work and they want to stick to that, even when the current processes within the company are slow, laborious and in places just plain wrong.

I don’t understand why other people find it so hard to step back, look at what they’re doing, and see where they can save time and stress with just a few changes!
This is the most frustrating part of my life, I find it very hard to motivate myself to model web applications around company processes that I can see are wrong.

In order to save myself from a heart-attack mid way through my 30′s I’m not sure if I need to find a way to stop caring about improving the companies I work at, or whether I should try to migrate my job away from writing apps into some kind of business processes analyst?

For now I’ll stick to drinking JD every night until I stop caring

But one thing I did notice is that the documentation around wordpress isn’t brilliant and there is a serious lack of guides for creating your own themes

Today I stumbled upon this guide which I’ve had a read through and it’s brilliant

Goes right through from designing a layout, slicing it up and eventually coding the individual pages
If you are half decent at html/css you should be able to make a theme from scratch using this guide, big thumbs up from me to the original author!

2.0ghz dual core with 2gb of ram

I’ve taken both my 320gb drives out my PC, reformatted them and put them in USB caddies on my mac

Only had it for a week, but god its nice..
Last night I was sat converting a few of my movie rips to MP4′s ready for itunes, chatting to a few mates on msn, watching a tv show in quicktime, doing a bit of work in photoshop and browsing around in coda, and it never skipped a beat

Compared to vista x64 ultimate which blue screened on average 6 times a day, I’m in heaven

I’ll stand by Rick’s comments here… if you use your computer professionally for either coding or graphic design, you NEED a mac!