Photoblog Plugins

  • I’m trying to sift through the photoblog plugins but thought that somebody might be able to help steer me in the right direction if what I’m looking for exists.

    I’d like to be able to post a photo on the blog similar to the way you post a regular word post so that you may see 3,5,or 10 photos in chronological order on the page. That’s easy enough but I would then like for those photos to automatically be placed in a gallery according to category.

    For example, a shot of a mountain is listed as landscape so it appears on teh front page. When you click on Landscape under categories, it would open a thumbnailed gallery page.

    Does something close to this exist?

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  • I have tried three different photo gallery programs and by far my favorite is Zenphoto. Zenphoto is not a plugin, however. It is a seperate software similar to WordPress. You can view my gallery here.

    What I like about ZenPhoto is that it allows pretty permalinks, it’s easily costomizable to match it to your site (I don’t use Kubrick but these directions worked great on my theme as well), and it has it’s own support forum. It offers customizable rss feeds on a level-by-level basis (for example, there are individual feeds for each gallery) and you can allow users to comment on individual photos as well.

    It has it’s issues though. For one, it’s still in beta. But it’s the most comprehensive software I’ve seen for this. Also, there are plugins and it’s open source.

    It works best if you install Zenphoto in the same database where your wordpress lives. This is really easy to do because there are only three tables. Then, all the photos you upload are stored nicely in gallery files on your server like this: Albums —> Landscape —> Mountain.jpg.

    Since www.yoursite.com/albums/landscape/mountain.jpg is a file that now exists on your server, you can display that image in a single post by simply linking to it like this <img src="https://www.yoursite.com/albums/landscape/mountain.jpg" />

    Or, you can use a plugin to display thumbnails of a whole album in a post.

    have you looked into using “lightbox”? I’m using it on my galleries, along with custom templates and css…

    Kahil: Sorry to butt in; but, I was looking at your site and saw the “flash” effect on your photos. Before I go off searching the net for this plug-in, could I ask you post the link here if you don’t mind? Does “Lightbox” give you this effect too, or do you need more plug-ins?

    Please and thank you. ??

    this isn’t flash, its use of javascript…

    there are a few plugins that do this and then there is the other way to do it… i just used the plugin…i found it on wp-plugins.net…

    I have an older version of the plugin cause the newest release wasn’t working right…

    Kahil: Thank you for clearing that up for me, I will check that out.

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