Image Headlines

This plugin allows you to have images created automatically for your entry titles. In this way you can utilize non-standard fonts and get smoother rendering than would be possible with simple text headlines. New to this version is improved integration with the WordPress administration interface under WordPress 1.5 Strayhorn as well as genuine soft-shadows behind the text for that smooth, custom look the girls love.

Using other fonts

use some other font you are more than welcome to do so. First, though, you need allow ttf files to be uploaded which you can change in the miscellaneous tab of browse to your font (note that Windows is finicky with the file dialog around fonts the filename from the properties and paste it into your file name box in the upload directory as well as the wp-content/image-headlines directory for valid TrueType fonts and lists those in the menu. Experiment with those fonts!

Configuration

titles. Simply go to the Options page of your WordPress installation where

If everything has gone well with the installation you should see a collection of options and a nifty preview image of what your current settings look like. Yeah!

General Configuration

what directory the plugin will use to store the images it generates. You can change it if you wish.

Font and Colors

As you might imagine this section will have the greatest bearing on the fonts and entry boxes for controlling the font size and color as well as what the background looks like. Note that all colors you see on this page must be specified in HTML color format, so #123456 or #FF0000 or even the shorthand version like #CCC. Anything else will break in fantastic and undefined ways and

If you make your background transparent it will likely look better. Turn the option on and off to see the difference.

Line Spacing

This will control the formatting of your image a bit, especially as it pertains to long lines.

The left padding simply tells the plugin to leave some blank space at the left edge before it starts drawing the text. This may be useful in the case where you have a background image you want to include.

You can enable the line-splitting option so that really long titles get split into multiple lines before rendering. This is important on fixed-width Selecting this option will break the text into multiple lines if the rendered line would exceed the maximum line width you specify.

The vertical space is the additional space you want between each line in the case that we break up lines. The bigger the number the larger the gap between them.

The line indent is the additional space between the left border of the image and any subsequent lines in the case of a line break.