photo/video-blog: “2D matrix” presentation of thumbnails?

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  byen · Member · Feb 15, 2007 at 7:19 am

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  I want to photo/video blog, & have the page present a “2D matrix” of thumbnails. When the user clicks on a thumbnail, a new window opens & the picture is displayed (or the video is played). Like a Textamerica.com mobile-blog

  Is there a plugin which will do this?

  Right now, I can get video thumbnails presented..but all the entries are in a 1-dimensional blog format (“up & down”).

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 15, 2007 at 7:37 am

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  We don’t install our own plugins here at WordPress.com, but I see no reason you can’t do this with existing formatting options.

  If you’re using the visual editor you can put thumbnails side by side very easily, and define the amount of space in between them using the picture icon (the tree). The number you can get side by side depends on the column width of your theme, of course. Then you just click on each posted thumbnail, click on the link icon, and put in the URL of the full-sized picture or video.

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  byen · Member · Feb 16, 2007 at 5:15 am

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  You are talking about blogging those photo (or video) entries manually over a web-interface.
  Thanks for the feedback.

  I’m mobile-blogging from handheld devices. See:

  http://byen.wordpress.com/

  Those 1st entries are coming from mobile-devices, & appear “linearly”: up & down. How do I make those entries appear in a “2D matrix” fashion?

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 16, 2007 at 5:52 am

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  My guess would be “not from a mobile phone.”

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  drmike · Member · Feb 16, 2007 at 3:56 pm

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  If you’re talking about the video in the posts like this one, if you look at the source code, you may have noted that the player is coming directly from blip.tv. That’s something you’re going to have to see on their end as there’s no settings that can be changed on this end. This is the entire code that exists within your post:

  <script type='text/javascript' src='http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=149882&cross_post_destination=8346&view=full_js'></script>

  Normally you could write a ‘blank=_new” to get a new window to pop up or, if we didn’t have the restriction, add in some javascript to to get it to do so but there’s no place to add in anything like that.