In this chapter, we've looked at some advanced multimedia techniques. You now know how to prepare images for upload to your blog using an image editor such as The GIMP. You also know how to ensure that a thumbnail will be generated for every image you upload. We learned how to resize thumbnails so they fit our post area and how to add styles to images in WordPress using CSS.
We also installed a third-party gallery plugin—NextGEN Gallery—which we can use to create great-looking galleries containing multiple categories of images. We saw how easy it is to use WordPress Embeds to display video in posts. Finally, we looked at the process of adding a favicon to our blog to give it that professional look.
Although the majority of the work in this chapter was done in our local development environment, the techniques can be applied in exactly the same...