What features do you look for in a image/media gallery

Wow… if you can get a nice and slim frontend that handles media files and Flash files then you da man! ?? When can we get our teeth into this?

cjohnson :: Anything ever come of this? Are you still working on it? Do you have a development page?

Still working on the interface. Had to re-factor to eliminate a couple table joins. I just have an issue with category structure that I have to work out. Work always interferes with the interesting stuff.

If something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing it right the first time.

Ok, here’s an important question … the method I’m looking at to keep track of the categories and groups really needs transactional tables (mysql > 4 & inno or bdb). It can get along without the transactions but it’s vulnerable to indexing errors on a bad update or insert. There are other alternatives while maintaining functionality but they’re kind of kludgy. What is eveyones take on such a restirction?

You know what? As long as it works the way it’s supposed to overall, to hell with it. ‘Kludgy-ness’ can get worked out through use and feedback… I think.

This does sound great. I’d love a simplified, straightforward image posting system. Ideally, I’d like to be able to have my posts look like a magazine article w/ multimedia bits as part of it.

I think requiring mysql > 4 is not too much to ask.

Does > 4 include 4.0.36 or something like that? Or does it mean 5.0?

If you can support an InnoDB table and transactions, your good.

I dunno… I’ll tell you whether or not I get an error.
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I’ve tested and tried at least a dozen photo plug-ins and/or separate systems with WordPress and it comes down to one simple feature I’d LOVE:

— delete original image file after/during upload (and after plug-in creates a medium and thumbnail image)

When I build a WP site for someone who uploads their 3 MB digital camera image … you get the idea. It won’t be long before their disk quota is reached and, if the plug-in doesn’t do any resizing, their visitors will have to downloads these beasts every photo.

I’ve had many people tell me, “Just optimize before the upload in Photoshop.” Sure, I know how to do that, but most people don’t. Most people also won’t take the time (or even figure out how) to delete the original manually.

That’s my 2 cents. Really just 1 cent. ??

– Bradley

likoma (Bradley),

it’s just your 2 cents, automatically resized to 1 cent.

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likoma :: Yeah, people who suggest manual resizing have definitely never tried to maintain a photoblog.

As long as this thing can handle Flash files I’ll be a pig in mud.

update on this project? ETA?… Or should I be more patient?

I couldn’t even guess at an ETA. I think I’ve got all the tricky parts figured out. The interface for managing the groups and categories just took longer than I’d thought.

Some of the methods I’m using to manage categories and groups could be of benfit to the core wordpress system. I’m trying to get things written so they could be either a plugin or a drop in hack to replace the category managment in WP.

I think I got some favorable responses on the dev mailing lists. Here