Sorry for the late reply. I originally developed Shashin to work with Highslide, which was the best photo viewer back then (2006!). I eventually had to remove Highslide because its license conflicts with the GPL (which means it’s not allowed in the wordpress.org plugin repository). At that point I switched to Fancybox v1, which was the only decent GPL compatible photo viewer I could find (v2 is not GPL compatible). But it had limitations which required me to do a lot of extra work (mainly technical issues with videos, and it’s inability to follow redirects, which Twitpic uses). PrettyPhoto switched to being GPL compatible recently, and its more robust than Fancybox v1, so I switched again (but Fancybox is still included as an option).
I’ve fiddled with other viewers but those are the only 3 I’ve tested extensively, so I don’t have any other favorites.
Setting up another viewer is pretty straightforward -just follow the instructions on the Shashin settings page under the “other viewer settings” tab. There is one limitation though – some extra custom javascript would be needed to make it work if you want to use it for viewing album photos (i.e. using the shortcode for displaying album thumbnails, and then clicking the thumbnail to view the album’s photos). If there’s a viewer you want to try for this, let me know and I can help.
Hello Mike,
I am still working on getting my Shashin pluggin configured correctly. I have finally settled on my theme and would like to have my shashin photo galleries open in the same fancybox but there seems to be a few changes I need to make.
I have setup shashin to use fancy box but not use your script.
http://inmylens.com/uncategorized/shashin-test/
You can see the images are not loading with a fade or elastic just drop from the top. Here is a sample from my site using my template gallery
http://inmylens.com/blog/harvey-bear-ranch-6-0-miles-fire-thank-you-cdf/
Here is a line of code from my template that shows images with fancy box and thumbnails below which is my preference.
jQuery(‘a[href$=”.jpg”],a[href$=”.png”],a[href$=”.gif”]’).not(‘[data-rel=”fancybox”]’).attr(“data-rel”, “fancybox”).attr(“data-fancybox-group”, “gal0”);
Thanks for the help
Brad
Mike I also noticed on your page http://www.toppa.com/shashin-3-development-progress/#prettyPhoto%5B20%5D/1/ that your pages has not borders and the images are displayed very cleanly. On my page listed in the previous post it has in, outer and possible caption borders showing. Is this something i will need to change in my templates css or is part of a shashin css?
Brad
Good news Mike you can ignore my last 2 posts but I do have a different question. I was hoping to display the XMP Subject data, often referred to as keywords/tags on the photo in the caption area. Have you ever looked at adding code that mapped this data to the caption field like you have done with the exif data?
here is a page that shows the different type of data in a jpg and you can see the subject data is under XMP.
http://inmylens.com/blog/jpg-data/
Brad
Hi Brad – to answer your previous post, the different styles you’re seeing on my site come from the new beta version of Shashin. If you want to try it, it’s on github (I’ll update the wordpress.org version once I feel more confident it works well in various browsers). If you try it, let me know what you think. The download link and more info is here: http://www.toppa.com/2013/shashin-3-4-beta-please-help-test/
For the EXIF data, I’m showing what’s available in the Picasa feeds. All the data you’re showing on that page isn’t included in the feeds (or at least it wasn’t the last time I checked).
Wow you are correct, i just found that on the google API documentation site. I did post a question in their support group to see if anyone is aware of them adding the XMP data to their feed.
Yes, I will download and try the beta tonight, sounds great. By any chance did you add a 1440 viewer option? Thanks again for the help and a great product.
Brad
Mike, I downloaded the beta version removed the old shashin from wordpress, zipped the folder and uploaded the new plugin and am getting the follow fatal error. Fatal error: Class ‘ShashinWp’ not found in /home2/inmylens/public_html/wp-content/plugins/Shashin-3.3.99/start.php on line 24
Any thought?
Brad
Hi Brad – I forgot github names the folder like that when you download it. If you change the folder name to “shashin”, that should fix it. I will add a note about that to my blog post!
Ok, renamed the folder shashin, zipped that folder and still get the same error but with a different folder name Fatal error: Class ‘ShashinWp’ not found in /home2/inmylens/public_html/wp-content/plugins/Shashin/start.php on line 24
Brad
OK so as the evening goes on and I become more determined to see the new version working I tried every way I could imagine to upload the zip and every time same fatal error, so i finally went back to version 3.3 from wordpress and then copied the new files/folder via ftp into the old 3.3 folder and magic i am up and running very nice. I do think there is some installer issue but not sure what. Brad
Hi Brad – it just needs to be a lower-case “s” – “shashin”.
