Howto: Rotate and Flip images in PHP using GD, retaining PNG transparency

So, this is the second of the PHP Image Manipulation series and today, we are going to talk about how to rotate and flip images in PHP using predefined GD library functions. Rotation and flipping is perhaps one of the most important image manipulation techniques. Using a few library function call, it is really simple to do such manipulation... Read More

Automatically copy images (png, jpeg, gif) from remote server (http) to your loc...

So, have you ever found the necessity to copy remote images to your local server using http URLs? This is pretty easy using PHP and PHP GD. If you have both of them installed (in most of the servers they come installed) then you can do that in no time. But then comes the security issue. Copying anything from remote server to your local server... Read More

Add home & other items directly in WP Nav Menu using wp_nav_menu_items filt...

So, this is going to be the last of the WordPress Nav Menu series. Previously, we have talked about the basics of WordPress custom navigation menu and dealing the empty nav menus with custom fallbacks. In this post, we shall see how we can directly add some links to the nav menu using filters. This would become useful, if you want to... Read More

Catch the first image on WordPress post and use as thumbnail

So this the last (perhaps) continuation of the posts getting the source URL of the featured image and using TimThumb with WordPress MultiSite. As the title says, today we are going to discuss how to automatically fetch the URL of the first image for any WordPress posts or pages and then we shall also see how to pass it to timthumb etc for... Read More