4 Great Windows 7 Tips That You Never Know Existed

windows7-logoFor a normal Windows 7 users, most of the time, you will just accept the default setting of the operating system and not change too much of its internal settings so as to reduce the chances of breaking the system. However, there are some of us who love to tweak the settings to make our workflow more productive and effective. Below are 4 great Windows 7 tips that are seldom covered and should get your productivity up.
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Snippet: How to Prevent WordPress From Creating Thumbnail Images

wordpress-thumbnail-russian-dollsBy default, when you upload an image in WordPress, it will generate several thumbnails (large, medium and small) from your images. If you have no uses for these thumbnails, they will become a liability to your site, take up valuable database and storage space. If you have a thousand posts in your blog and each post contains at least two images, then you will end up with at least 6000 useless thumbnail images.

A good thing is, you can turn the automatic thumbnail feature off and the step is very easy. No hacking/modification of code or plugins required.
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How to Add Image Thumbnails to Related Posts in WordPress

wpthumb-mainQ: Your site is very helpful to me. Could you please tell me how to embed that related posts like in your site in mine? I have tried a lot of alternatives, can you please tell me how you add that related posts with thumbnails?

If you are frequently browsing the Web, you will notice that many blogs are showing image thumbnails for the Related Posts section, just like what we did in Make Tech Easier. In WordPress, there are several ways that this can be done. Let’s check it out.
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