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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

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”

Thank you very much for your very fast support - Now your plugin is working like a charme.

April 4th, 2008 at 11:37 pm | Link

@pete you can actually achieve this space by using the "edit styles" page, use the following code and just change #px13 to the id that is in your url, ie gid=13 and change the 45px to what ever you are comfortable with. You will need to play with it a bit.

PLAIN TEXT
CSS:
  1. // top right bottom left
  2. #px13 td{
  3. padding:15px 15px 15px 15px;
  4. }

@Jerod thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.

@Roxane I don't have an easy way to make them all look the same, but I can at least make each cell the same height and width and center the image horizontally, just change the px13 to the id that is in your url:

PLAIN TEXT
CSS:
  1. #px13 td{
  2. height:100px;
  3. width:100px;
  4. position:relative;
  5. }
  6. #px13 td a{
  7. height:100px;
  8. width:100px;
  9. position:relative;
  10. display:block;
  11. text-align:center;
  12. vertical-align:middle;
  13. }

@rey which gallery are you referring to?

@Sharon Take a look at http://junktrunk.com/, he is using the jqgalviewII gallery plugin which I am assuming you are using.

@Andreas I have an idea what the issue is, but I thought I fixed it correctly. I am assuming you are using foreign characters and that you are using version 2.1.4 correct? If this is the case, can you take a look at comment 261 and let me know if that helps?

April 4th, 2008 at 8:40 pm | Link

Hi Benjamin, thanks for the continued upgrades ... do you actually sleep?

One new comment after installing the latest version (in WP 2.5). It would be helpful to have some way to insert some space between the thumbnails in table view. Since the text was expanding to fill the available space, I tried to change the number of pictures (width) from 3 to 2 ... but that just meant a lot of blank space on the right side ... the pictures were still as close together. Basically, the only problem I have with the structure is the text from one picture running in to that of the next picture. Makes it look like one line of text ... which can be quite confusing to a viewer, LOL.
In order to stop the running together of the text, I went with the lsit view ... but that looks rather sparse, since there's a long, long line of pictures in a very thin row.
Either an option to include a certain number of spaces to pad the table cells, or an option to put a blank column of cels in between??

April 4th, 2008 at 4:37 pm | Link

Good work Ben!

I have the newest update installed and it now displays the photos and still allows me to use the Import Media option on the Write Post and Write Page. I have not built and new albums with this version yet, but I'll be sure to let you know how it turns out :)

April 4th, 2008 at 11:52 am | Link

Hi Benjamin

To answer your question, I'm using the tablestructure without text and lightbox.
I'd really appreciate that, thanks.

April 4th, 2008 at 9:22 am | Link

hi benjamin,

how to set the background of the gallery to transparent???

rey

April 4th, 2008 at 4:56 am | Link

Any hints on how to get the thumbnails to show up on the left-hand side instead of the bottom?

April 3rd, 2008 at 7:19 pm | Link

Hi Benjamin,

I have downloaded and installed the latest version of your plugin today. Then I have tried to create a gallery by importing one of my picasa webgalleries. Then as I have klicked on the button submit changes, the screen get's brighter and the notice: please wait... appears. That's it now for about two hours. Mi Webalbum contains 9 photos. What might be the reason?
Any idea? Do you need further details?
Ah, yes, I am using Starto.de as a hoster and I am using wordpress 2.5 german version.
Hope to hear from you with a hint for solution.
Bye
Andreas

April 3rd, 2008 at 12:52 pm | Link

@Roxane what structure and gallery (ie. thickbox, jqgalview...) are you going to use? I can send you some styles that should help.

@danny All good ideas and will make note of them.

April 3rd, 2008 at 11:14 am | Link

Hi Benjamin,

This is really a good plugin that I have long-waited for.
Can I have a suggestion to add some features?

- add a button to WP's newly introduced rich editor
- allow admin to choose to display the size of photos when using LightBox or ThickBox
since LightBox and ThickBox will use the whole screen space, showing a bigger version makes more sense
- For Flickr, can we just load all photo set of the specified user id and then allow the admin to choose directly from these photoset other than going to Flickr and copy that photoset id or RSS url?

Thanks,
Danny

April 3rd, 2008 at 10:39 am | Link

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