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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”

Big props to Benjamin on the latest updates for this plugin. Also I would like to thank him for the support he provides. Its authors like Benjamin that make Open Source work. And work well.

Keep up the good work!

Starwolf

April 8th, 2008 at 11:54 pm | Link

@WheelCipher

I am having the same problem. The buttons don’t work when you try to modify a gallery. This makes it impossible to change the gallery structure of type. How can I fix this?

April 8th, 2008 at 10:37 pm | Link

Yep - seeing the same issue trying to add additional images to an existing gallery. I can add new images to an existing album - but then when I go to manage the gallery all the steps are on the same page (choosing an album & thumbnail size etc) and then clicking next doesn’t do anything.

April 8th, 2008 at 9:30 am | Link

Far all those who have commented in the past few days, I am a bit backed up with work and will get to your comments shortly. Thanks for the patience.

April 8th, 2008 at 8:43 am | Link

Loading images from a album to a gallery works not with user selected/changed image dimensions. I selected thumbnail size 80×80… images don’t load.
With size of 100×100 images load.

April 8th, 2008 at 4:48 am | Link

hi Benjamin
I am trying to build a gallery locally from database, and I am unable to. Basically when I select the “build from database” option and press “next” nothing happens.I then tried to create gallery using flickr and once again nothing happens. Could you please help?

April 7th, 2008 at 5:22 pm | Link

Am I missing something?

I am using WP 2.5 and PhotoXhibit v2.1.5 - I am familiar with how everything works as I have used BSG for a while. Now, when I go create a gallery from scratch (using flickr), it works just fine. But when I go back into ‘manage gallery’ to add more photos that I’ve since added to flickr, something is wrong.

All of the options are on one single page, none of the buttons work, etc. Has anyone seen this?

April 7th, 2008 at 11:30 am | Link

Benjamin,
thanks for your comments so far. I have updated to 2.1.5. With this, I again had the feature that the gallery could not be built. (The please wait screnn did not dissappear. So I have changed the line in px.php as per you first proposal. Now the galleries can be build.
As you can see in http://www.sauerlandflieger.de/blog/?p=137, I am using the gallery now. This “Viewer II” is the only type of gallery which is working for me. I am wondering if it is possible to show in this gallery the text, that I have edited for my pictures. It would be sufficient if the text appears when the user is with the mouse over the text or if it would show up when the photo will be enlarged. Do you have an idea for that?
Then I have done some other tests. I have build a new gallery with the Viewer Option and with Table over text. The Photos will then be shown one foto below the other but at least the text is shown correct. As I am uisng german “Umlaute”, there is no error in displaying the text. The only thing is that I don’t like the pictures one beow the other and even more I dislike, that the photos will be opened in the same page with the reuslt that my page disappears.
But again, I am glad that I can show some photos yet and if you can solve the alt text issue that would be great.
Andreas

April 7th, 2008 at 2:10 am | Link

Hey just a couple bugs to add to the list: (2.1.5 w/ wp 2.5)

1) Flickr full size photos aren’t displaying currently (Thumbnails go ok)
2) When pulled from picasa, using gallery viewer 2, it doesn’t show the alt/title tags when the image is being shown in the viewer.
3) had to remove the new UTF line in my code to get it to work. In the px.php file

April 6th, 2008 at 10:55 pm | Link

@C.Hill the ampersands are just laziness on my part I think, I can make that adjustment with in the next week or so.

@Patrik I am glad it is working for you now.

@Roxane The styles are grouped with their respective plugins inside the database, I am trying to come up with a way that you change the defaults, I’ve had my wife using PX on her site and she keeps having to change the styles every time she creates a new gallery. I am hoping to get that added in in the very near future, but until then there is a way to update the styles but will require playing with one of the files. If you are confortable with css, I can walk you thru it, just shoot me an email at benjamin.sterlin [at] kenzomedia.com.

April 6th, 2008 at 4:57 pm | Link

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