You Looked.

Alright, I’ll be honest. The only reason I came up with this post in the first place was because I myself had a hard time figuring out how to do it. As cool as the idea of having an image pop-up from your blog, graying out everything behind it seems, its easy to feel like you’re chasing a distant dream when there are multiple ways to do it wrong, and make it complicated.

Before you begin reading further, I must tell you that this technique will be relevant only to certain people. This post is primarily for those people hosting their wordpress blog themselves. If you have a wordpress.com blog, this post will not help you as it is not possible to edit theme files in your blog unless you use wordpress.org. Any other person using something else might also find this post useful in terms of weeding out the good options from the bad ones when you are trying to achieve what we’re trying to achieve here. Ok! Now that that is cleared up we can get into the real stuff!!!

If you are using Wordpress to write your blog on your domain name, your wordpress database might be growing beyond your wildest imaginations!

When writing posts in the Wordpress Admin page, for reasons of security, Wordpress keeps autosaving your posts as you write them. It is a very handy feature especially if your internet is intent on sabotaging your hard work. For example, after thirty minutes of hard work, when you finally press the “Publish” button, your otherwise faithful browser might run into an error page thanks to that intermittent internet connection. Numerous thoughts flood your mind – “Is my work lost? Would pressing the back button recover my stuff? Would hitting refresh help? Do I have a backup!?.” Don’t worry, Wordpress’ autosave feature has it figured out for you.