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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”

My media bar problem was solved with 2.1.5 - THANKS for the support

April 6th, 2008 at 2:30 pm | Link

Greetings,

I am very impressed with PhotoXhibit.

I do have one concern. Validation Output: 23 Errors

the errors seem to waterfall after this error-> ‘Warning Line 61, Column 143: cannot generate system identifier for general entity “gid”‘. The most common cause of this error is unencoded ampersands in URLs as described by the WDG in “Ampersands in URLs”. The source looks like this -> ‘…otoxhibit/photoxhibit.php?option=css&gid=1&1207496559″ rel=”stylesheet”/> ‘photoXhibit/common.js/edit_styles.js on lines 11 and 22′.

This is a minor issue. I’ve tested in popular browsers and everything resolves. However, like a lot of nerds I enjoy validating websites and prefer when they are valid. There is a lot of commenting on the photoxhibit homepage and maybe this minor issue has already been addressed and I just missed the conversation. I am going to continue to use photoxhibit.

if anyone has a fix for this please share else when I find time I’ll look into it further and I’ll share.

v/r
c.hill

April 6th, 2008 at 12:11 pm | Link

Nevermind my previous cooment…I just read what you wrote to Pete and that answers my question.

I do have another question though…will this affect all the galleries or only one? If only one, how do I get it to apply the style to all of them so tht it is the default style for all table view / lightbox galleries.
The reason I ask is that the person who will be creating the galleries knows nothing about css & I want to make it easy for them.

April 6th, 2008 at 8:05 am | Link

Hi Benjamin

Which css file do I add that to? Also which id are you referring to?

April 6th, 2008 at 8:00 am | Link

Hi, Benjamin!
I found it would be useful if images will load with its with and height attributes. Cause, if “alt” is too large it crashed site preview without images. So, how about adding this attributes in album base?

April 6th, 2008 at 7:01 am | Link

@Patrik and @all who have upgraded to WP 2.5, I thought I had the conflict for the media bar taken care of in version 2.1.4 but some servers don't seem to support a basic PHP function. I went ahead a created a new function that "should" do the same and seems to have fixed the conflict.

@Andreas for the double gallery item, there looks to be a conflict with your theme and the css of the plugin, can you try the other lightbox plugin or the thickbox plugin to see if that helps? For the foreign text issue, your server must not support the function that was causing the issue you were having in the earlier comment. If you try the below (on a new or update gallery) does that parse the text correctly with this function in?

PLAIN TEXT
PHP:
  1. //Change:
  2. $imgs = stripslashes($post['images']));
  3. //To:
  4. $imgs = iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", stripslashes($post['images']));

April 5th, 2008 at 10:07 pm | Link

And one more comment (sorry for that)
As you can see, I have integrated two galleries in the post. The fist one (these 5 pixels below the H) is not really visible.
The second one was build by the Div-Structure no text option. Here you can see pictures. But if I click on the pictures there is always the same effect, the phot will be opened in the same site and my blog dissappears. I hae to use the back button to get back to my site and I cannot continue for example to the next foto. Where is my mistake?

April 5th, 2008 at 8:13 am | Link

Something to add:
Scroll down to the enrty and then you see only some very small pixels dirct beloe the H of the Word "Hier"

April 5th, 2008 at 7:55 am | Link

Benjamin,
thanks for your response. I've changed the file and uploaded. I can create now galleries but the display in the website is not really working. If you open my site http://www.sauerlandflieger.de....._blog.html and you scroll down the blog to the entry "Unser 1. Arbeitseinsatz" from April 1st 2008 you can find a gallery but you cannot see any thumbnails.
I have tried several option but cannot find a solution. There is an error in size somewhere.
Thank's in advance for you appreciated help.

Andreas

April 5th, 2008 at 7:48 am | Link

Hi,

First, great plugin - I'm basing my clubbing sites gallery section on it - already have around 30 galleries.

I'm not sure if this was mentioned before, but I am having problems with the notorious flash uploader media bar in the "write-post" section of the Wordpress 2.5.) And PhotoXhibit seems to be causing the problem.

After I deactivate the plugin, the media import bar appears. When I activate it again - it dissappears. Is there a solution for this, or perhaps it is already on the to-do list?

April 5th, 2008 at 4:59 am | Link

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