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Howto use AnyFont in your posts

Ryan — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:23:30 +0000

This has been a very popular request lately, so here is a quick tutorial on using an image created by AnyFont in your blog posts or pages.

This tutorial assumes you have AnyFont installed and have already uploaded fonts and created some styles.

When you writing a new post or page, click on the add image button on the WordPress editor:

Click the “From URL” Tab and in the URL input box, type in the link to the image as follows:

http://www.yourblog.com/images/your_style_name/the text you want.png

For an example see the screenshot below:

You should also fill out the Title with the same text you want for the image. Then once you click on Insert into Post, you should see an image like the following:

I am going to be adding a custom button to the WordPress editor in the near future which will simplify this process greatly.

Enjoy!

2amlife Concept Design Preview

Ryan — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:50:51 +0000

Before I begin; I would just like to point out that I am not a graphic designer in the professional sense, I am just a developer with a keen interest in building very slick and usable interfaces. My actual graphic design knowledge is purely the result of many many hours of trial and error in both Photoshop and Gimp. So if you decide to comment, which I hope you do(I need direction!), please take this into consideration and go easy on me.

So anyway, on Friday last week, I decided to open Gimp for some unknown reason and while messing around with a couple of brushes and textures I had found on the net earlier, I suddenly got hit by a wave of inspiration for a new 2amlife.com design. You could be staring at a wall, watching a film, playing casino games or even dreaming, but when inspiration hits, you’d better get it down on paper (or onto the screen) before it evaporates. Now the problem is, when it comes to graphic design, my inspiration only lasts so long before one of two things happen:

I end up with something that looks nothing like what I envisioned originally.

- or -

As my inspiration fades, I start going around in circles, completely unable to make up my mind, then eventually lose interest in it completely and simply abandon it.

The perfect example of an abandoned design is this very site. After making the header image, I couldn’t figure out what I wanted the rest to look like, resulting in the very plain/boring look of all the posts and pages as you can see.

So check out the images below of the concept design I came up with last Friday, and if you have any ideas or suggestions as to where I should take this theme… please, please comment! I will be forever grateful for any type of feedback which will help steer me in the right direction here!

2amlife Concept Design

AnyFont 0.6.0 is out!

Ryan — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:36:12 +0000

I am pleased to announce the latest release of AnyFont, my WordPress plugin which I have been working on quite a bit recently. This release has some really awesome new features added to it, namely the inclusion of support for PHP4 and the GD image module. But if you’re a fan of the ImageMagick support which was default in previous versions of AnyFont, don’t worry, thats still there! The plugin will now automatically detect which version of PHP you using and if you have the GD or ImageMagick plugin installed, then load the required libraries which best suit your servers configuration. (with PHP5 and ImageMagick been the preferred modules of course.)

If the last paragraph didnt really mean all that much to you, dont stress, what it all boils down to is that the plugin is much more likely to work for if it didnt work previously as this new version should now work with almost all of the wordpress hosts out there.

The other new feature which I think is really worth a mention is the new options which are available on the settings page which allow you to automatically replace your post titles, page titles or widget titles with one of the custom fonts you have uploaded. No editing of code is required! Just a simple click and everything is taken care of for you!

If you like the plugin please click here to rate it on the WordPress site, or if you have any problems with the plugin or need assistance of any kind, please feel free to twitter me. And on that note, I think its about time I update this site with some relevant contact info and maybe a project page for AnyFont… and then possibly even blog about something other than AnyFont!