Posts Tagged ‘Images’


WordPress 2.9 Upgrade: Image Editing, Undo/Trash, Improved Video Embeds

February 3rd, 2010 by James

We have recently upgraded the OM4 platform to include the latest WordPress (2.9 and 2.9.1) features.

There are quite a few improvements, including:

  • Undo/trash feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash).
  • Built-in image editor, which allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images.
  • Easier video embeds that allow you to just paste a URL on its own line and have it magically turn it into the proper embed code, with Oembed support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv.
  • Improved visual editor
  • Create custom galleries with the new include and exclude attributes that allow you to pull attachments from any post, not just the current one.
  • and many more

The full list of over 500 new features, changes upgrades and improvements can be found here.

We hope these performance improvements make administering your website a much more enjoyable task.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask below or post your question on our forums.

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Diggers Rest Station and Baz Luhrmann’s Australia – Location, Location, Location

October 9th, 2008 by Glenn
Diggers Rest Station, the Kimberley, Northern Australia

Diggers Rest Station, the Kimberley, Northern Australia

We’ve recently gone live with a new OM4Tourism website for Roderick and Alida Woodland at Digger’s Rest Station.

This website was a lot of fun to work on. The landscape of the Kimberley region is just breathtaking – we have four clients from the Kimberley region, and each time I see new images I want to take a few weeks off and head up there. The horse treks run out of Digger’s Rest are particularly interesting – one of the best holidays I have ever had was a 6 day horse ride in the Victorian high country. So I’m a big fan of horse treks.

Digger’s Rest Station was one of the locations used by Baz Luhrmann to shoot Australia, the movie. That is pretty special. I’m sure they are going to get a lot of attention, because Tourism Australia is running a big new campaign to coincide with the release of Baz Luhrmann’s Australia.

Locations used in the Kimberley included Digger’s Rest Station, El Questro and Carlton Hill Station:

In New Zealand, a lot of people went to visit the locations used for The Lord of the Rings, so perhaps the same thing will happen in the Kimberley. I don’t think you can stay at Carlton Hill (perhaps if you are friends with the Packer family that doesn’t apply), but both Digger’s Rest and El Questro let you stay in view of the Cockburn Ranges.

In putting together this site, Alida asked for it to be quite visual. So we’ve used image buttons to allow visitors to navigate to the major parts of the website. By looking at the home page, you can see pretty quickly what the Digger’s Rest experience is all about.

Hope you get the chance to visit the Kimberley – watch the Tourism Australia ads on youtube, and perhaps that might happen sooner rather than later.

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Preparing Images for your WordPress Website

September 16th, 2008 by Glenn
Grapes

Grapes

We’ve recently published a new support article to help you prepare images for your website.

Using your digital camera to prepare images for your website is a wonderful idea. But to keep the response time of your web pages nice and fast, you need to do a bit of prep before posting them.

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