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Large images in WordPress
Yet another small, but annoying problem solved: Since sometime ago (allegedly since version 2.5 – I haven’t noticed it until 2.6), WordPress has started to scale all larger images, which were added in the editor by clicking “add image”, down to a width of 500 pixels. This will also happen, if you even chose “full size” in…
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Mondo Verde – Grüne Welt
Today I was in “Mondo Verde”, a theme park in the Dutch town Landgraaf, where natural and cultural landscapes are imitated. Within a few hours you can walk from England to Italy, from Russia to Australia or from China straight into the South American Jungle and marvel at the prevailing animal and plant world. You…
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History on the doorstep & the original guilt
Today I visited the old dam on the Eifgen creek, which is located only few kilometers from here in the forest. It was built in 1906, and as far as I know, it had served a great part of Burscheid as drinking water supply for many years. The last time I was there was already…
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Session variables in WordPress
For three days I had nearly despaired when I tried to extend a WordPress site with a self-written login script. Everything worked properly on my local server, but as soon as I had uploaded it, the session variables didn’t seem to be passed any more: after the login, I stayed logged in for only one…