Allow me this moment to take a second and thank EVERY SINGLE person that’s ever given any time to WordPress. Be it in the help forums, helping out with the Wiki, sorting out a theme, sorting out a plugin or generally trying to get people to use WordPress and Open Source software more.

I’ve been slogging away at version 3. There are a number of reasons for me doing this. For a start I learn soo much every single time I do a design. I’m not a coder, not even close, and yet I’m starting to understand what’s going on every time I decide to do something new.

The great thing about the WP community is the fact that if I’ve got an idea for something, chances are somebody’s already had that idea, implemented it and made it into a downloadble script that I can manipulate and incorporate into the design. Sure it’s frustrating trying to get something to work, that just plain doesn’t want to play ball, but I’m extremely lucky in that if I’ve ever got a problem one of my buddies who are infinitely better at this than I am, come in and give me a shove in the right direction.

I’m tweaking this locally, just playing around with things, but I’m really getting into taking my standard base (in my case Manji, since I know the code upside down, and inside out), and tweaking to try and get things smaller and smaller in terms of file size). Every Kbyte I shave off I have a little giggy ^_^.

I’ve got one final script I need to incorporate but I’m having troubles deciding which way to go. It’s that incorporating of images into a design. This is for the Manji gallery that’s been brewing for so long. Basically all I want is a script that will enable me to quickly add a thumbnail to a folder. Once that image is displayed then I want it to be clickable and to have the exact same surroundings as a single post, i.e with spaces for comments etc. Also I want this space to be integrated and controlled via the control panel as well.

Anyone have any ideas which script/hack/plugin will do this? I know it exists, just wish I knew which one it was…