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Which other plugins do you recommand to use with WPPA+, and which not?

• Recommanded plugins: qTranslate, Lightbox 3, WP Super Cache, AddThis.
• Plugins that break up WPPA+: My Live Signature.

After update, many things seem to go wrong

• After an update, always clear your browser cache (CTRL+F5) and clear your temp internetfiles, this will ensure the new versions of js files will be loaded.
• And - most important - if you use a server side caching program clear its cache. (No longer needed as of version 4.4.2)
• Visit the Photo Albums -> Settings page -> Table VII-A1 and press Do it!

What do i have to do when converting to multisite?

• After the standard WP conversion procedure the photos and thumbnails must be moved to a different location on the server. You have to copy all files and subdirectories from .../wp-content/uploads/wppa/ to .../wp-content/blogs.dir/1/wppa/ This places all existing photos to the 'upload' directory that belongs to blog id 1. Make sure the files are accessable by visitors (check CHMOD and .htaccess). Further, activate the plugin for all other blogs that require it.

How does the search widget work?

• A space between words means AND, a comma between words means OR. Example: search for 'one two, three four, five' gives a result when either 'one' AND 'two' appears in the same (combination of) name and description. If it matches the name and description of an album, you get the album, and photo vice versa. OR this might apply for ('three' AND 'four') OR 'five'. Albums and photos are returned on one page, regardless of pagination settings, if any. That's the way it is designed.

How can i translate the plugin into my language?

• See the documentation on the WPPA+ Docs & Demos site: http://wppa.opajaap.nl/?page_id=1349

How do i install a hotfix?

• See the documentation on the WPPA+ Docs & Demos site: http://wppa.opajaap.nl/?page_id=823

What to do if i get errors during upload or import photos?

• It is always the best to downsize your photos to the Full Size before uploading. It is the fastest and safest way to add photos tou your photo albums. Photos that are way too large take unnessesary long time to download, so your visitors will expierience a slow website. Therefor the photos should not be larger (in terms of pixelsizes) than the largest size you are going to display them on the screen. WP-photo-album-plus is capable to downsize the photos for you, but very often this fails because of configuration problems. Here is explained why: Modern cameras produce photos of 7 megapixels or even more. To downsize the photos to either an automaticly downsized photo or even a thumbnail image, the server has to create internally a fullsize fullcolor image of the photo you are uploading/importing. This will require one byte of memory for each color (Red, Green, Blue) and for every pixel. So, apart form the memory required for the server's program and the resized image, you will need 21 MB (or even more) of memory just for the intermediate image. As most hosting providers do not allow you more than 32 MB, you will get 'Out of memory' errormessages when you try to upload large pictures. You can configure WP to use 64 MB (That would be enough in most cases) by specifying define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M'); in wp-config.php, but, as explained earlier, this does not help when your hosting provider does not allows the use of that much memory. If you have control over the server yourself: configure it to allow the use of enough memory. Oh, just Google on 'picture resizer' and you will find a bunch of free programs that will easily perform the resizing task for you.