tariq

Matt’s blog is exactly what got me wondering if there was an easier way to do it. Although the more I think about it, the more doable the database insert approach seems.

For the way you have it set up now, probably the easiest thing to do would be to use the Page Links To plugin. This is what I do and it seems to work fine. If you don’t want to get a plugin just for this you could just enter the link directly into your header.php file.

And if you want your gallery to be integrated into your blog you probably want to use https://www.lumieres.com.au/wp/wp-gallery2.php as your gallery link.

I have the same problem.

Popularity contest looks for $wpdb. I’m guessing Wpg2 changes this to the gallery database in posts that hook up to gallery. This screws around with popularity contest.

The workaround would be to hardcode the WordPress database instead of having popularity contest look it up.

Not that I can get it to work on my site.

Well the page is up now. I’m not sure why it was down before. But if you haven’t found another solution you might want to give it a try.

I know that Gallery2 can do this (gallery.menalto.com). But I’d be surprised if other programs couldn’t as well. You would install the gallery software and then use the wpg2 plug-in (wpg2.galleryembedded.com). The gallery would then get the users from WordPress, and you can configure the albums so that only registered users can view them.

I don’t know about that. Mine changes. Sorry.

I think what hbalagh means is that when you write an entry, just add the <!–more–> in the entry itself, and then it will show up as the read more link. Here’s the Codex link for how to modify the text it shows: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Customizing_the_Read_More

In the alternative, there’s a plugin that will automatically do it for all your entries: https://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/PostTeaser

You can use gallery (https://gallery.menalto.com/), it’s a CMS for pictures. Lets you have users, comments, ratings, the whole deal.

And there’s a plug-in for wordpress, wpg2 (https://wpg2.ozgreg.com/index.php/Main_Page) that lets you have the gallery become a part of your blog.

They work pretty well together, and are pretty simple to set up too (it’s what I use).

Do you have your permalinks working? They’re supposed to help the search engines.

You want to change the part that says:
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘mysql.example.com’);
to whatever your mysql server is.

What’s wrong with CVS? It’ll magically download whatever files have changed. (It works for Gallery)

Assuming you have followed the information on the WPG2 page https://wpg2.ozgreg.com/index.php/Main_Page you should probably start adding some photos to your gallery install using either the wp-gallery2.php URI or the URI of your gallery install. Once some photos are installed you can link to the gallery image as described on the WPG2 page or add an ImageBlock to your sidebar or anything else.
After that you can mess around with themes and permalinks and the like and you’ll be set.

I haven’t used them myself but I found these on the wp-plugins page (www.wp-plugins.net)

Who Is Online https://wp-plugins.net/plugin/whoisonline/
WP-OnlineCounter https://wp-plugins.net/plugin/wp-onlinecounter/

Hope this helps.

Your galleries are nicely integrated! What software did you use?

Tariq

Actually I think I’d stick with wordpress. It’s just that my wordpress site is run off a computer in my closet back home. It would be nice to have a nice backup site already in place for when the computer does die (it’s 7 years old now, so something’s gotta give). Plus, for whatever reason, they seem to post more comments on the lj already. It would give me freedom to make really weird/bleeding edge/ugly layouts and the people who just wanted the content could just go to the lj and get it there.

If you follow the link, the the jlj thing seems promising, it’s just for whatever reason posting from a file doesn’t quite work for me. I believe there is a way to fix it, and I’m going to continue trying stuff until it does work, but I’ve got a lot of more important things that need doing so it’ll probably have to wait a bit.