Adding a watermark to posts based on category

  • jinsan

    (@jinsan)


    19 years, 1 month ago

    Ok, I’ve thought about category icons but thought they may end up looking too messy. An easier idea, I thought, would be to have a feint watermark which would be an image related to a category that would display within the post itself as a background image.

    Is this possible, and if so how to do this? It would look much neater for the design I have in mind, and would keep the minimal feel.

    An example would be, a post about books, and in the background for that post which would be assigned to books, there is afeint watermark of a book. Other posts maybe under chickens, and tehrefore have the image of a chicken within their post as the background to the post.

    Hope someone can help,

    Thanks in advance

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    This question is just a variation of the many that we already discussed regarding category templates 🙂

    Thread Starter jinsan

    (@jinsan)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    Hmm…..it’s a fair point…how about an example of this specific variation? 🙂

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    First of all: I don’t think it’s a good idea, because if you present 15 posts on your frontpage it means bgimage downloaded 15 times…

    Anyway, the idea would be to create a category6.php (the number depends on your category’s ID) and make the layout as you want, plus I’d define the in it the div “post” as “post6″… then I’d add the proper styling in the style.css with the bg-image. I don’t know if it work, but this is how I’d start.

    Thread Starter jinsan

    (@jinsan)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    interesting, I was thinking along the same lines. Still I see your argument against using it, but would it actually cache the image and load it once?

    How would it compare to using a plugin that creates category icons?

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    Dunno… ask the experts 🙂
    (when it comes about coding and/or server issues consider me illiterate)

    Lorelle

    (@lorelle)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    A watermarked image as a background, especially a gif that is transparent, would be very small and would be fine. The problem is that things behind text tend to get messy unless handled very carefully. And yes, it would cache.

    Conservative is nice, too. I’d check http://www.csszengarden.com to see how they have handled images behind text and take some of their ideas and run with it. They have a HUGE number of styles that do that.

    seanshaghaghi

    (@seanshaghaghi)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    A recent plugin does add a watermark to the background of specifically tagged posts. Check out the structured blogging plugin http://www.structuredblogging.org/. They have examples on their site and here is one from mine http://www.shaghaghi.net/archives/2005/03/09/maroonsambush/

    It shouldnt be too hard to adjust the plugin. Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter jinsan

    (@jinsan)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    Yeah I already checked those sites, though they reptty much tend to be 100% image and positioned using CSS.

    It won’t get messy, because I have it inside of my head how it should be, and I’m going for something incredibly light, and just viewable. I did a test with a page and it seemed to work well, it’s just applying it each category which will be tricky

    Thread Starter jinsan

    (@jinsan)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    that is fantastic sean – it really looks like what I’m looking for and has the same…intention that I am perceiving.

    On a side note, would you happen to know where that rating plugin is ? The one with x out of x stars?

    Additionally how does it handle multipage content? For example, I tend to use the More tag as well as having reviews that are about 2-3 pages in length (I think my HL2 review will be about 10 or 12, but that’s not important). So does it produce a smaller image, or only show part of it?

    seanshaghaghi

    (@seanshaghaghi)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    Not sure about how it deals with multipage content.

    The ratings is built in to the structured plugin

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