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Removed head from bottom, found documentation. Hope to see some good results. ??

Yes, back again. Coppermine/WP out of the box is at https://nwdentalanesthesia.com/wordpress/
At a glance, all went well and installed pretty easily. I did find the plugin version 3.7, and it seems to work.

The only gap I can’t bridge is inserting albums. At the WP write screen, I can select the groups option, but there are no albums to choose from in the dropdown menu. I have tried my best to make users that are integrated in both cpg and wp, and used the admin to add, but still, no luck. Sound familiar? Or are albums inserted differently? The only other thing I don’t get is the login from wp will sometimes dump me into cpg, and sometime not. Not sure what’s going on there.

If I can iron this out, then I think Coppermine is going to be my choice out of the 3 (Gallery2, Coppermine, and phpwebgallery). We’ll see.

Figured Gallery2 sizing out, but… Jillij, I have gone over all of the mods and double checked the paths and tried various alternative paths and still no luck. I am going to do a fresh install of everything and start again.

Maybe I am using the link to the gallery wrong? I assume that the modifications make phpwebgallery always appear in the WP frame, even if I access it by name (https://mysite/phpwebgallery/). The changes have made access to the gallery admin not possible, with the same error as mentioned above. I realize you may not want to use your time this way, but I would really like to get photon to work. The test-site is https://texas-motors.com/blog/
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Okay, I got side-tracked and I will return to gallery2 and make the above changes, just as soon as I get an install of coppermine up. I spent too much time last night trying to get jillij’s photon plugin to work. No luck. I keep getting the following error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: photon_convertfromutf8toiso() in /home/texasmotors/www/www/phpwebgallery/category.php on line 167

I really like the phpwebgallery and wanted to get that plugin to work. I tried jillij ??

Coppermine plugin questions: the current test version is 3.9, and stable is 3.3. Joey, I can’t find 3.7 anywhere, which is the first wp2.0 compatible release you mentioned. I assume 3.9 shouldn’t be too “unstable”. Anyone using that with wp2.0?

Why I like the Coppermine and phpwebgallery vs. Gallery2 from this point is the interface. Forward, back, metadata, slideshow, really simple. Gallery2 has the drop-down sizing and info in the corner I don’t care for. That may be a setting I haven’t found yet, but I don’t like it out of the box. I should mention, my opinion of coppermine is based on others’ websites, so as soon as I get a copy up and running, then I can finalize all of this. Thanks as always for all the input.

Well, I have installed Gallery2 and the plugin. In fact, if anyone wants to see the out of the box install, it is at: https://ironmillproductions.com/blog/
The gallery is at the side in the blogroll section. I don’t know how long this will be up, but I am now going to another url for my Coppermine install to see how that goes.

My first impression of Gallery2 is good, but I don’t care for the way the gallery is shrunk down inside of WP. I don’t know if that is a setting, but I don’t feel like tweaking with it much. If anyone knows what I am talking about and knows the solution, let me know.

I don’t mind getting under the hood mind you, but I would rather a solution be close to what I am looking for out of the box. Off to the coppermine….

Wow, so much food for thought now. I usually shop around and see what others are doing and I really appreciate all the input and examples. Jillij brought to my attention the phpwebgallery which seem to have the integration that I like. No one else has commented on that one, so I am going to look at that a little more.

Again, thanks everyone for the input. I usually take a ton of time to make these kinds of decisions, so all of this input helps. It looks like I might end up trying them all out. That will also give me a chance to see about the admin interface. Do most just add the admin to the WP side?

Now, if anyone has been where I am at, and are very anal, feel free to explain why you chose what you did, and why you didn’t choose the others? Time and inclination permitting of course.

Thanks again, I’ll be back tomorrow hopefully with a decision.

Thanks Joey. Somehow in my rushed reading and checking, I didn’t see that the recent release of coppermine has support for WP2.0.

I like your solution thus far because it appears that you have kept your blog and added the gallery in the pages links. I also like the gallery toolbar. Some of the others I have looked at thus far had too many buttons and didn’t look clean enough if you know what I mean.

Any cons for coppermine? Easy install? Easily customized to match blog sites? I’m tring not to turn this decision into an all day affair, but knowing myself, that is probably going to happen :\

Good discussion so far. Just wanted to throw a few other questions out. I am new to blogging and also am looking for some integration of photos. I looked at Coppermine, Gallery2 and the plugin, and ZenPhoto. It looks like Coppermine and Gallery2 are not compatible with WP 2.0. Is that correct? And ZenPhoto is a stand alone only, right? The noscope.com example was pretty cool, and looked to just link to blogs on the sidebar. Or does Zenphoto have a robust blogging feature?

If these are repeated topics, I am sorry, but I am trying to explore the best answer for a purely family oriented site both journals and photos. I like some of the ideas so far, but I have installed WP2.0. Thanks.