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January 13, 2008

PhotoXhibit

by Benjamin Sterling in Uncategorized on January 13, 2008 @ 10:18 pm

If you are getting a hanging error when trying to add a gallery, please use the code at the following link [http://pastebin.com/f5a51e4b3] and overwrite all the code in the /photoxhibit/common/inc/px.php file. There is an issue with some servers with a php function that helps with foreign characters and this code helps

Please note: I have not been able to get this plugin updated for Wordpress 2.6+, I have been working on getting it updated but I have had very little time.  I am sorry for any inconvenience.

PhotoXhibit, formally Benjamin Sterling Galleries, was born out of the fires of so many not-so-great gallery/image manager plugins for WordPress.

This plugin uses photos from your Flickr, Picasa, and/or SmugMug accounts as well as allows you to upload and build Albums to help you build inviting Photo Galleries on and through out your site.

Features:

  • Independent gallery creator for post, pages, and sidebar
  • The ability to create a gallery based of some of the most popular JavaScript based gallery plugins
  • Ability to customize each gallery’s appearance with a styles editor
  • Ability to grab your photos from Flickr, Picasa, and/or SmugMug
  • An easy to use interface for adding photos directly to a post or page from Flickr and SmugMug (Picasa and Albums coming soon)
  • Easily create and upload Albums with a single thumbnail or two different size thumbnails
  • Easily turn features on and off via the options tab

The following list of jQuery plugins are used in PhotoXhibit to help you build out your galleries:

Examples

Here are some examples of what the plugin will dump out:

Requirements

  • Till I have an alternative built in, “allow_url_fopen” must be turned on on your server for the Gallery Builder to work for the services other then Local and Album I have decided to go complete JSONP for all outside service calls.
  • JavaScript must be turned on
  • Flickr and SmugMug requires an API key for the advanced stuff, I am working to removing this requirement, but you will need it in the mean time I resolved this need.

FAQ

Visit the ever growing FAQ page

Known Issues

  • Opera chokes on some of the jQuery UI stuff
  • IE6 and IE7 are now having issues when building a gallery and you click the next button
  • The Lightbox plugin has the path for the images used hardcoded into the js, so if you going use it, give it the full url to the image Fixed as of 2.0.10
  • Some themes use the_excerpt() on category, archive, tags and search pages and code will be echoed out for these pages for the posts that have a gallery on it. Check out the FAQ on how to get around this.

Updates

V2.1.4 - 04.02.2008: v2.1.4 has changes that will now show your images on category, archive and search pages.

V2.1 - 03.23.2008: v2.1 has a ton of new fixes and changes, please view the change log for the full list

V2.0.10 - 03.04.2008: v2.0.10 added the ability to turn off the sliding effect when building a gallery, added the code to start translations, and some other minor additions.

V2.0.8 - 03.01.2008: v2.0.8 has fixes for the “Locally” service, incorrect path for jquery, checks to make sure GD library is installed and added back in the alt text editor for galleries.

V2.0.7 - 02.29.2008: v2.0.7 has some code updates for jQuery and jQuery UI which in turn fixed issues with Opera.

V2.0.6 - 02.28.2008: v2.0.6 has fixes for the Album Manager not working for some people and pulling from the albums in the gallery builder not working.

V2.0.5 - 02.26.2008: v2.0.5 has fixes to the gallery edit, gone completely JSONP for service calls do to servers not supporting certain functions.

V2.0.4 - 02.23.2008: v2.0.4 has a large amount of fixes that should make the overall experience better. I removed the need to have a SmugMug API and working on removing the need to have a Flickr API. Have a look at the changelog for the full list of changes.

Download Link

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/photoxhibit/

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387 Responses to “PhotoXhibit”

hi friend
i download and installed 2.1.2 version but i doesn’t work with original size photos, but smaller size is still working properly.
i’m using advanced photoset option with my flickrId to get my photoset from flickr.

March 26th, 2008 at 4:22 pm | Link

We’re getting ready to launch a blog and I wanted to update to the newest stuff before we went live. I grabbed the 2.1.2 update and am having problem when building/updating a gallery. After submitting the changes I get a Please Wait box that never goes away. Since I didn’t have anything of any value, I killed the gallery and tried to rebuild to no avail. I then deactivated the plug-in, killed the MySQL database files, re-activated and started over. Album creation and file upload works fine, but I cannot save a Gallery.
On WP 2.3.3 with K2 I have tried several different display structures, image sizes, and gallery styles. I’m only using an album for photos.

March 26th, 2008 at 2:08 pm | Link

Thanks B. Have you looked at the wp-simpleviewer plugin? It seems to do this just fine. Check 2/3 way down this site for an example http://corefoundation.net/. I’m no coder so I have no suggestions, just complaints! :-) Actually, this is my only complaint, otherwise it’s a thing of beauty.

March 26th, 2008 at 1:19 pm | Link

@jeff sadly that is probably the biggest drawback with using the uploader I have as default, some servers do not like the headers flash sends it.

@Adam what is happening, and I am still trying to find a good approach so your feedback is welcomed, is that wordpress will either post the excerpt or the first 100 or so words/characters of a post when view categories, or archives and this will print out code which never looks good. So for those, I have it set to post nothing from my plugin. I looked at how other plugins do it and no one had a good solution. Any suggestions would be helpful.

March 26th, 2008 at 1:03 pm | Link

Hi quick question: i’m using jQuery Gallery Viewer II on my WP 2.3.3 site, love it. However, when viewing an entire category or works by an author, the gallery does not display, it only displays when viewing that specific post. I hope that makes sense, here’s an example: http://somedaymap.com/author/test1 - 2 of those posts have Galleries, but you would not know that unless you clicked on those posts (s u b l i m i s & gallery)

Thanks in advance for any help.

March 26th, 2008 at 12:35 pm | Link

Okay, I was able to upload with default uploader turned off. I also went ahead and installed the latest Flash Player to see if that was the problem and that didn’t seem to help. Thanks for your help.

March 26th, 2008 at 11:25 am | Link

Problem resolved: I saw all the items one after the other: it was a unix file permission problem, all the .php files under wp-content where "locked" via .htaccess, so I had to allow the access to wp-content/plugins/photoxhibit/photoxhibit.php to resolve the "issue".

I noticed that perhaps there's an error in the javascript file core.js at line 1320 ( that is

PLAIN TEXT
CODE:
  1. eval('#px'+data.id+' a").'+data.gallery+'('+$.toJSON(data.params)+')');

): internet explorer says illegal character (more precisely in says, in Italian: Carattere non valido, which is "the character is not valid").

March 26th, 2008 at 10:48 am | Link

Problem resolved: I saw all the items one after the other: it was a unix file permission problem, all the .php files under wp-content where "locked" via .htaccess, so I had to allow the access to wp-content/plugins/photoxhibit/photoxhibit.php to resolve the "issue".

I noticed that perhaps there's an error in the javascript file core.js at line 1320 ( that is eval('#px'+data.id+' a").'+data.gallery+'('+$.toJSON(data.params)+')'); ): internet explorer says illegal character (more precisely in says, in Italian: Carattere non valido, which is "the character is not valid").

March 26th, 2008 at 10:47 am | Link

@Giovanni when you go to the options page, are you seeing a tabbed interface or are the items one right after the other? Are you seeing any error messages? In IE you will see a yellow icon at the bottom left and for FF you will see a red icon at the bottom right (i believe).

@Jeff No, the "allow_url_fopen" won't matter, can you turn off the default uploader by going to options and setting the second from the bottom to no and saving and then giving it a try again? I think it may be the communications between the flash uploader and your server.

March 26th, 2008 at 10:13 am | Link

Oh, and I did try with smaller dimensions. Still no dice.

March 26th, 2008 at 8:52 am | Link

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