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What's New in DM Albums™ v1.6:

• Improvements:
  • Improved image output quality
  • Support of Firefox 3.0 Beta (and, hopefully, the production release of FF3)

What's New in DM Albums™ v1.5:

• Improvements:
  • Fixed memory leak (thanks to Phong Long mailto: phonglong@gmail.com http://www.phonglong.com/)
  • Improved memory management and error reporting
  • Hide browsing hints after 5 seconds of inactivity (to hide menu when mouse leaves screen)
• Misc Bug Fixes

What's New in DM Albums™ v1.4:

• Enhanced Browser Support:

• Full Support for Internet Explorer 6
• Full Support for Opera 9

Misc Bug Fixes

An update for DM Albums 1.3 can be downloaded directly from DutchMonkey Productions: dm-albums.1.4.update.zip

NOTE: This will only work for DM Albums version 1.3!

To upgrade from DM Albums 1.3 to 1.4, simply replace the files with the updated version in the zip file:

/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums.php
/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/dm-adminoptions.php
/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/javascript/browser.js
/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/template/album.php

What's New in DM Albums™ v1.3:

• New Features:

• Context menu added with Next, Previous, and Slideshow options
• EXIF Information displayed via context menu > Properties
• Direct photo download option via context menu (this can be turned off in the DM Albums™ Admin Panel

Check for GD lib in DM Albums Admin panel

Check for memory_limit > 32M

iFrame sizing improved for Windows Internet Explorer

Windows Internet Explorer 6 support improved

Misc Bug Fixes

The DM Albums™ Admin Panel Complains That There Is Not Enough Memory and My Images Don't Load

DM Albums takes high resolution images and scales (and caches) them for the viewing area. The issue with memory is base on the fact that JPEGs, PNGs, and other compressed image formate are quite large when you open them. Since they are uncompressed in memory, their size is a function of their dimension and color depth plus overhead.

The best solution is to increase the amount of memory a PHP script is allowed to consume; this can be done by updating the PHP.ini file's memory_limit value. (DM Albums™ attempts to do this automatically, but some server configurations ignore this.)

If you are on a shared host which doesn't allow changing PHP.ini settings or you don't want to update this value for other reasons, you can get around this limitation by loading smaller photos into DM Albums. (Finding a photo dimention that works on your server will be a trial-and-error process.

How can I change the look of DM Albums™?

The layout of DM Albums™ can be changed the DM Ablums Admin Panel, while the color scheme can be edited using CSS by editing the style sheet found in the dm-albums/ui directory (/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/ui/styles.css).

When I try to load DM Albums™ I get an error box saying "Error: Directory does not exist or can not be accessed."

DM Albums is most likely not configured correctly.

The error is due to the fact that the directory mapping for your Home Directory Setting and the album location specified in currdir don't resolve to an actual folder location. DM Albums™ takes in a parameter called "currdir" via the URL (in the case of the DM Ablums Admin Panel preview, dm-albums.php?currdir=/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/preview/). This lets you point dm-albums to any directory on your server. DM Albums then takes the currdir parameter and combines it with the Home Directory parameter set in the DM Ablums Admin Panel to find the absolute filesystem path to the photo album directory so that it can properly process the photos.

I get an error message: "Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied..."

In order to utilize it's state-of-the-art caching algorithm, DM Albums™ requires write-access to the directory containing your photo album. In most cases, this means the directory permissions for the directory containing the photo album needs to be set to 0755. You can accomplish this via a command line by typing chmod -R 755 directory. (0755 is prefectly safe premission to set on a web-accessible directory.)

In rare cases, 0755 is not enough, in those cases the folder's permissions may need to be set to 0777.

I get an error message: "Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Invalid argument in..."

There was a bug in all DM Albums versions up to 1.2 which caused this error when DM Albums was running on a PHP installation on a Windows Server. This bug has been fixed in release 1.2.

I installed the plugin, but I get the following error: Call to undefined function get_option()

The zip file for the plugin contains an extra folder. when properly installed, the folder/file structure of the folder at /wp-content/plugins/ should look like this:

[] dm-albums

    dm-albums.php

    screenshot-1.png

    screenshot-2.png

    readme.txt

Note: the folder dm-albums contains 5 folders: 'javascript', 'php', 'preview', 'template', 'ui' and four php files: 'config.php', 'dm-adminoptions.php', 'dm-albums.php', 'security.php'

To correct this problem, follow these instructions:

1. Log into the WordPress admin panel and deactivate DM Albums. THIS IS IMPORTANT!!
2. Move dm-albums.php, readme.txt, and the two screen shots from /wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/ to /wp-content/plugins/
3. Move everything in the folder /wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/dm-albums to /wp-content/plugins/dm-albums (there should only be one dm-albums folder under the plugins directory) so that when you're done, the path /wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/ contains five folders (javascript, php, preview, template, ui) and 4 php files (config.php, dm-adminoptions.php, dm-albums.php, and security)
4. Log into the WordPress admin panel and active the DM Albums plugin
5. Configure DM Albums using the admin panel at Options > DM Albums

Where Can I Find Usage Examples?

Visit the DM Albums™ Online Demo for a full explaination of how to use the plugin: DM Albums™ Online Demo

If I have further questions, can I email the developer?

Always. Please email development@dutchmonkey.com with any questions or suggestions. We are always looking for ways to improve our plugin.