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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”

jdm: the plugin will work on both php4 and php5. There is an issue with servers having “allow_url_fopen” turned off, so I am working on an alternative. But you should be able to use the Album and the Local services.

Still a few problems here and there. What php version is needed for this to work properly?

zkorosi: The “something is very wrong here” is actually a test I put in the code to see if the server accepts a function that the plugin uses but I forgot to remove it. The bad news is that for the time being the plugin most likely will not work on your server. Please feel free to test it still because I put some code in there that “should” force the server to do what is needed, but it is not 100%. I working on a work around now that I hope to have up by the end of the weekend.

As for the translation part, I am still working on that list of strings and the other stuff that goes along with it. Give me some time on that and I will let you know when I have it set up.

What is the easiest way to translate your plugin? I never done before like this. Do you have string list or I have to search all of the text in the source code and translate them? Please help me to start! I need it on my native language, because it’s very usefull. I have Picasaweb albums over 200 albums and 2000 pictures…

Thx! Zozo

Benjamin: on my host - admin.joekmotorsport.hu - I get the following error message on the top of my page, when I start your plugin:

CODE:
  1. something is very wrong here

Why? Thx for help: Zozo

ps.: I'll try to translate this usefull plugin to Hungarian but I need time to do it...

zkorosi: Once a gallery is built, you can edit the styles for that gallery, just click on the edit styles link, but you are correct, I need to come up with a good tutorial on the basics. I was hoping to get the tabs at the top (how to) done by today, but things have been crazy.

Btw, your English is fine, since your native tongue is Hungarian, think you'd be interested in doing some translations? Porgan is going to do portuguese-Brazilian and would love to make this accessible to as many users as possible.

Porgan: I will touch base with you in the next couple of weeks to see if your are still interested in translations. I still need to put a few things together and fix a few bugs before this things gets out of control :).

Hello Benjamin,

I'll test the v2.0.3 tonight. I tested it only on my localhost, so I will install it on a real test page and I'll see...

One more question: for future versions can you build in some basic design for the albums like on the demos or can you write some tutorials how can I easy customize them?

thx: Zozo

ps.: For Everybody: sorry about my poor English, my native is Hungarian :-P

zozo,
Sorry, I missed your message, I posted v2.0.3 that "should" fix that problem, can verify? If the problem is still there, do you mind setting me up with editor access so I can see what the problem may be. Send me an email off list if you wish.

jdm: Thanks for the heads up, made the fix and made a note at the top of this page till I get the new release out.

jack: This plugin will not import the actual images from Picasa to your server, it will just reference the images you select to show.

Found the error. The suggested code is missing a closing parenthesis.

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