WordPress widget hunt + your help = prizes!
I’m looking for a WP widget for use with photos, one that either 1) allows me to put a graphic ONTO the photo (a little cartoon head, a virtual Post-It, like that), or 2) works the same way as the note function in Flickr.
Neither widget may exist; both may exist; various WP.org and Google search strings have not turned up anything useful, so I’m hoping a reader with a better tech vocab than mine can suggest a hack (or tell me to give up). Please post solutions in the comments, and if it’s what I need or reasonably close, I will send you a small TN-themed token of my appreciation.
Please note: No, I do not want a sidebar widget. Yes, I’m aware that I could “just use Photoshop”; I need to know if basic note/Post-It-ing can be done in the WordPress back end, and if so, how.
Any questions, let me know. Thanks!
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I don’t know of anything on the WordPress backend, but you can use the icanhascheezburger.com lolcat creator (LOL builder) to add text to photos – way easier than Photoshop. Sorry I can’t be more helpful.
Well, the only thing that I came across that seemed possible was the Nextgen-Gallery plugin (I think you’re looking for a plugin, not a widget, as widgets are usually for sidebars). It allows you to watermark an image with text or another image, and place the watermark in several positions on screen. (Image watermarks have to be .png to work.) However, I DON’T know whether you can change the watermark from image to image, or only have one watermark that applies to all images (which clearly wouldn’t work for your needs). I put in a query to the developer and will let you know what he says.
I am looking for a plug-in, you’re right. I’ll research these; keep ’em coming.
I can’t test it out without messing up my own WordPress site and I’m not feeling quite that ambitious today, but… do the existing plugins for embedding Flickr images not bring the text notes with them? It seems to me that this might be the easiest way to go. I used Flickr Manager briefly (http://tgardner.net/) and it seemed to work well for the more general purpose of managing and embedding pics.
This is another non-WordPress-specific recommendation, but FotoFlexer (fotoflexer.com) makes it super-easy to add text or Post-its or thought bubbles to pictures. All you’d have to do from there is upload the results to WordPress, and if you have that Flickr-to-WP plugin (I can’t remember what it’s called), it’s even easier — FotoFlexer will upload to Flickr FOR you, and then it’ll be in WP too.
Okay, I made that sound really complex. It’s not, I swear.
Have you looked at Picasa? I don’t think it’s really widgt-y, but it might be something you’d like to look at; I know that it lets you add watermarks and text, but I don’t know about cartoon heads. http://picasa.google.com/ is the link.
When I said “upload the photos to WordPress,” I actually meant “upload the photos to Flickr.” Fear me, for I am moronic.
The plugin author got back to me and said you can change the watermark with every image, so it might be something to try. The plugin link is here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/
Thanks, guys — let me look into these and mull some prizing.