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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 Benjamin~ This plugin is absolutely fantastic!

But I have a little problem: I have some Flickr photos of Chinese and Korean titles, and they all became “?” in my gallery which I made with this plugin, I guess it is because of the character encoding is not UTF-8..
How could I make it correct? Thank you~~ :)

@LeeJD I must have deleted when I went with the new design, here it is: Plugins Page

Where’s the download link??? >_<

where’s the link to download photoXhibit?? I downloaded BSG but it doesn’t work in my browser (FF 2.0.0 & IE).

Thanks Benjamin.

I did another test last night and discovered that if I insert the php code (that you suggest for putting a gallery in a sidebar for example) into my post (using the exec-php plugin), it comes out fine in the feedreader. So the problem only seems to be if I use the [photoxhibit=2] tag. I don’t know anything about script, but hopefully that helps you work out the issue. Also, for your info I use Google Reader as my feed reader, in case that makes a difference.

Hopefully its an easy issue to fix, but in the meantime I am happy to use the php code as a workaround.

@Guera I will have to look into this, not sure what could be the problem.

Hi Benjamin - thanks for this great plugin - exactly what I’ve been looking for!

One issue I have is that when I insert a gallery into a post, in the feedreader, the gallery is displayed at the top of the post, not in the spot I put it in. In one post where I had 3 different galleries throughout the one post, they all displayed at the very beginning of the feed, looking like one big gallery.

I’m not sure if I’ve done something wrong or if there’s a quick fix for this??

Thanks for your help. (The blog link is a text blog BTW, I’ll start using the plugin on my main blog once its all working properly)

Hello,
I am using photoexhibit in wordpress 2.5 however, the get images from local database function says getting images but they never show up. How can I fix this? It worked before I updated to 2.5 and the galleries I created in the older version still work.

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Hi Benjamin.

i really like this plugin. i started using it to show the artwork of all the artists that i interview on my video blog.
unfortunately my hosting service screwed up my site during and “upgrade” and it did not work at all for weeks.
now i have it up and running again but it looks like the javascript still doesn’t work. i was using thickbox for the galleries but now the photos open on a new page.
can you think of why this might be happening?

thanks,
David

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