Stallion also links into the Timthumb.php script to keep the thumbnails small, you can upload a 1000px by 500px image and it will generate a thumbnail using the exact size (say 180px by 120px) you set under the Stallion options page. The thumbnails are also used in combination with the Stallion SEO Super Comments Feature: if you click the “WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads” link on the bottom right corner of this comment it takes you to the Stallion SEO Super Comments version of the comment (a Google indexable SEO’d page generated from this comment) and it’s using a thumbnail from this post (all automated). The Stallion SEO Super Comments pages can generate SERPs in their own right on sites that have a fair number of comments.

This will soon all be added to Talian 6.3.

The time you spent coding the above into Talian 3 you could have setup Stallion 6.2 and generated a custom css file etc… to take into account your modifications

David

[[please delete this hereunder if you wish not to show piece of codes to the readers]]
I managed to add a thumbnail to the category page. I am grab the first image from the post and display it side by side the link.

Here’s the code to add to the funcion.php
<?php
function catch_that_image() {
global $post, $posts;
$first_img = '';
ob_start();
ob_end_clean();
$output = preg_match_all('//i’, $post->post_content, $matches);
$first_img = $matches [1] [0];

if(empty($first_img)){ //Defines a default image
$first_img = “http://www.job-interview-site.com/images/default.jpg”;
}
return $first_img;
}

Once done, you can simply call the function within the loop to display the first image from the post.

That is what I’ve added to the category page before the link to the post:

<a href="”><img src="” alt=”" title=”" width=”100″ height=”100″ />

Ziv

> WordPress is supposed to save your old widget settings (not tested the feature).

Yes it works. The reason W added this feature is because people are using second theme for mobile devices. So they need to switch back and forth.

BTW: If next Talian/Stalion versions will be mobile friendly (like twenty-eleven), you’d rock.

Since you are running Talian 3 you know you can install Talian 5 and Stallion 6 independently?

Install Talian 5 for example (Stallion 6 is better), activate, test it out if you don’t like it switch back to Talian 3. Worse case scenario is some of your widgets might need re-adding though apparently in WordPress 3.3* that’s been fixed/improved, WordPress is supposed to save your old widget settings (not tested the feature).

David

If you are set on not upgrading from Talian 3 look to see if there’s any thumbnail plugins as I’m not making any changes to the Talian 3 code (not looked at Talian 3 in years).

You are missing out on loads of features sticking with Talian 3, Talian 5 (40+ options) was a big update and Stallion 6 (250+ options) was a big update from Talian 5.

David

If you’ve been using the Contextual Related Posts plugin from this site I’ve made another version at WordPress SEO Plugins (calling it Stallion Related Posts WordPress SEO Plugin) which uses Timthumb built into Stallion for the thumbnails, so this will reduce the load on the images as described above. When I update Talian I’ll add the option into the related posts plugin for Talian as well.

Other than that I use Corel PhaintShop Photo Pro and optimize the sizes best I can without degrading the quality too much, but if you want images on a site it slows things down. Price you have to pay for a nice site I’m afraid

David