Installation
- Download and uncompress the current watermark Zip-file into the plugins-directory of your blog. It should look like this: /wordpress/wp-content/plugins/watermark
- Wordpress older then v2.1 Open the file /wordpress/wp-admin/inline-uploading.php in your favorite editor and look for the following part:
- Since Wordpress v2.1: Open the file </wordpress/wp-admin/upload-functions.php in your favorite editor and look for the following part:
- Since Wordpress v2.3: Open the file /wordpress/wp-admin/includes/upload.php in your favorite editor and look for the following part:
- Since Wordpress v2.6: Open the file /wordpress/wp-admin/includes/media.php in your favorite editor and look for the following part (about Line 131-134). Please be sure you edit the right file. Look for the media.php file in /wordpress/wp-admin/includes not in /wordpress/wp-includes.
This file exist thrice, but only the /wordpress/wp-admin/includes/media.php is correct! - (Optional and Experimental step)
Since Wordpress v2.6: This step is not the same as the installation step 5! If you want to insert watermarks not only in your original-sized pictures, but in thumbnails and resized images as well, then follow these instructions:
Open the file /wordpress/wp-includes/media.php in your favorite editor and look for the following section (about Line 247).
… and insert this code:
// INSERT HERE!!!
MM_Execute_WM($destfilename,'');Be careful here not to miss out a single-quote, as there are two single-quotes in this line
(see the diagram)! - (Optional step)
Create your own logo with a transparent background. you can use for example GIMP to do this. Then rename your file to stempel.png and save this in to the watermark directory. For the first test, you can use the stempel.png-file that is already included in the archive. - (Optional step)
If you need other fonts, please upload them via ftp, as your favorite font in the fonts-directory of your wordpress installation.
/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/watermark/fonts

… and insert this code:
// INSERT HERE!!!
MM_Execute_WM($file,'');
Be careful here not to miss out a single-quote, as there are two single-quotes in this line
(see the diagram)!
If you can execute all these steps successfully, then the watermark-plugin is installed.
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