Gallery 2.3 CVS, WPG2 RC Final, Vslider3 and WordPress 2.3 RC1 – possible bugs,

Sorry for the long posting, but I’ve updated everything and I’m having a few issues I can’t work round. I don’t know if they relate to gallery, wordpress, Vslider3 theme or WPG2, so I’ve decided to post everything I’ve found over the last 24 hours here.

I decided to take the plunge and go for:
the cvs nightly of Gallery 2.3 from 18th September from
http://galleryupdates.jpmullan.com/#gallery2

Some basic info here:
Gallery version = 2.3-svn core 1.2.21
API = Core 7.37, Module 3.8, Theme 2.6, Embed 1.2
PHP version = 5.2.0 cgi
Webserver = Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.2

the RC1 candidate of wordpress 2.3 from
http://wordpress.org/development/2007/09/wordpress-23-release-candidate-1/

The WPG2 3.0 RC Internal Final for Release Candidate Testing from
http://www.galleryembedded.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7742

And I made the updates to Vslider3 as noted here
http://irui.ac/archives/2007/07/09/vs3-hotfixes/

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Problems I think may be related to Vslider 3:

can’t use “captcha” – the text box and CAPTCHA that appears is normal if gallery is on a default theme, but in Vslider3, the box now doesn’t appear to show the CAPTCHA code.

Gallery 2.3 has a new feature – detect and delete spam with Akismet. But when clicking “mark as spam”, the CSS messes up and the page won’t work (see: http://www.digitaltoast.co.uk/files/gall_vs_spamcomment.png )

In Gallery admin, in the section: “image block settings” the page is messed up (right column takes over left column)

On updating gallery from 2.1 to 2.3, I got the following error:

Deactivated Plugins
The following plugins were active, but they are missing or incompatible with your current version of Gallery. They have been deactivated. Install the latest version of these plugins to reactivate them.

* Theme: vSlider
* Theme: vSlider2

If viewing gallery standalone, ie:
http://www.horseriding-dunedin.co.nz/trek/
it initially said:

Configuration Error: Missing Theme
Missing Theme

This album is configured to use the vSlider3 theme, but it is either inactive, not installed, or incompatible. To fix this problem you can either choose a new theme for this album or install or activate this theme.

Now it says:
This theme can only be viewed when embedded in WordPress and using vSlider 3
Site Admin Your Account Logout
but allows you to proceed to a workable admin section, which is a good touch.

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Things I think may be related to WPG2…
In WordPress, I go to WPG2 and then “WPG2 output” in order to delete all the code from the WPG2 Page, Style & CSS Options, but when I press SAVE, although I get a message which says
“WPG2 Page, Style & CSS Options Saved”, it actually just defaults back to what was there, ie:

.g2_column {width: 738px;margin: 0px 1px 0px 12px;}

On the MAIN site page, page, for example: http://www.horseriding-dunedin.co.nz/trek/
in the random block section in the right hand column, the following error appears, even though random block seems to be installed and active.

Array ( [blocks] => |randomImage [show] => [exactSize] => 150 [itemFrame] => none [albumFrame] => none ) Error (ERROR_BAD_PARAMETER) : Smarty error: The template ‘modules/imageframe/templates/containers/ImageFrame.tpl’ does not exist.

* in modules/core/classes/GallerySmarty.class at line 76 (GalleryCoreApi::error)
* in modules/core/classes/GalleryTemplate.class at line 401 (GallerySmarty::trigger_error)
* in ??? at line 0 (GalleryTemplate::resourceGetTemplate)
* in lib/smarty/Smarty.class.php at line 1562
* in lib/smarty/Smarty.class.p

etc etc

Well, I hope this post might help others, and maybe others might help me, or at least point out if I’m doing anything silly! As a side note, I’ve tried switching between php4 and php5, but the above results are the same.