Doing Things Wrong

WordPress is a PIG

WordPress image handling is completely insane, and they don't ask and they don't give you a choice. Not only does it idiotically generate image titles from EXIF data ( usually the camera name! ) but it generates masses of extra files, wasting disk space, clogging up the server, and making any sort of manual image management near-impossible. What a behind-the-scenes disaster.

I had written some code into my theme to stop at least some of this madness, but the new version of WordPress apparently found a way around it. So I re-wrote it, and attached it to the back-end on every admin page load. Fight that, you PIG !!!

All I want is the original image file at whatever size I see fit to upload it, and an uncropped thumbnail that fits in 200x200 box for the media library. This makes the media library nice and snappy, but still gives a useful display of each image. Anything else WordPress wants to do is GARBAGE.


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This photo speaks for itself. I got this nice piece of 1/4" walnut at the local hobby shop. They have lots more like it. Walnut is softer than hard maple - 1010 vs 1450, but otherwise similar in strength - 1.7 vs 1.8. I've read a lot on the internets about walnut fretboards, and come to the conclusion that 90% of it is BS - know-nothings stating their suppositions as facts, or repeating standard luthier nonsense.

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