How to Edit YORGOO Press Default Images

YORGOO Press News Paper lay­out uses thumb­nails for illus­tra­tion pur­poses. These thumb­nails are cre­ated auto­mat­i­cally from the first image loaded in a post. The thumb­nails are only cre­ated from images loaded to the Word­Press media upload folder (using the post or page editor).

For this rea­son, auto­matic thumb-nailing does not work on imported or syn­di­cated posts.

To auto­mate the thumb­nail cre­ation also on imported con­tent, YORGOO Press allows you to load default images which will show when ever no image from the Word­Press media upload folder is asso­ci­ated with a post.

The thumb­nails and default images are stored in the wp-content/uploads and the wp-contents/uploads/cache folder. Both fold­ers need to have per­mis­sions set to 777 (CHMOD). The default images are placed in the uploads folder while the thumbs cre­ated will auto­mat­i­cally be cached and stored in the image cache. The Cache can be flushed from your dash board under Set­tings — Viva-Zoom.

The default place­hold­ers can be down­loaded from HERE

Unzip and place the con­tent in a folder called “uploads” (with­out the quotes and in small letters)

Your folder con­tent looks like this:

YORGOO Press Default Images

The icon view of the same folder looks like this:

YORGOO Press Default Images 2

From the above screen shot you see that images 3,4,5,6 and 19 don’t show an image; in fact these images are by default set to 1 Pixel x 1 Pixel, let­ting you choose the size based on your preferences.

We will indi­cate here below some rec­om­mended default size val­ues, cor­re­spond­ing to the defaults embed­ded in the script and show­ing by default when you asso­ciate an image to a post in the cor­re­spond­ing cat­e­gory. Feel free to change them.

At present the default pic­tures are loaded to your YORGOO Press. If you replace the place­hold­ers with an image of your choice, make sure you name the new defaults cre­ated by you EXACTLY the same way the present defaults are called.

Exam­ple:

By pass­ing with your mouse over the image name you see the properties:

YORGOO Press Defaults 3

The required image size is 515 x 270.

This image dis­plays as a default in the Fea­tured Image sec­tion on top left of the home page if you don’t add a pic­ture to your Fea­tured Posts.

Cre­ate your image

The choice will depend on your site theme and topic. For the pur­pose of this demo I have cre­ated an ad — click to see orig­i­nal size:

Lar­rie Perkins

This could be eas­ily serve as a default on Lar­rie Perkins Online Fil­ing Web Site.

Save the image to your ‘upload’ folder:

You get this:

YORGOO Press default Images 4

Change the name of the image file:

1. Change the file name of the place­holder to:

cat1_NpAdvMainFea_placeholder.jpg

2. Change the name of “larrie2.jpg” to:

cat1_NpAdvMainFea.jpg

(You can delete the place­holder as well as you will not need it any­more; I tend to keep them for ref­er­ence or legacy purposes).

You get this:

YORGOO Press Default Fea­tured Image

Edit all Pic­tures and pro­ceed as shown, then upload the pic­tures to wp-content, over writ­ing the exist­ing defaults.

YORGOO Press Net­work users may send their image fold­ers to Zo Nicholas at zo(at)yorgobox.com

YORGOO Press Cus­tomers, please use your usual com­mu­ni­ca­tion channels.

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You may cre­ate dif­fer­ent image sizes as well, depend­ing on your pref­er­ences. How­ever, the above sizes will give a good result.

For the Bot­tom 8 cat­e­gories, con­sider cre­at­ing 8 dif­fer­ent images in rela­tion to the cat­e­gories rep­re­sented there. Of course you can cre­ate images which are com­pletely inde­pen­dent from your Blog Theme and use a sep­a­rate image theme, dis­play­ing for exam­ple only car related images, or toys, or flow­ers, or such like. The choice of a graphic theme gives your site coherence.

Your Imag­i­na­tion is the Limit!

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1. Man­ag­ing Images on YORGOO Press
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3. YORGOO Press on Google
4. New YORGOO Plu­gin for YORGOO Press
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