Album Title
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The plugin works fine on the site when viewed on Google Chrome & Opera but the album title are not visible on Mozilla. Kindly visit the following link on both browsers to see what I mean http://www.peterdlc.org/gallery/.
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I am having a similar problem. I have set the Thumbnail display as ‘Square, captions underneath’. The thumbnails are displaying with a block of space below them to display the album title, but the album title is not being displayed. I have tried this in Firefox, Chrome and IE. I’m wondering has the colour of the display font been set to white and my page background is white so you can’t see the album title text?
@kahome, I think you have set your Thumbnail display setting as ‘Rounded, overlay captions’ which as far as I understand it means that your album titles will not be displayed below or above your album title, but instead it appears when you hover your mouse over the album thumbnail. If you go to Shashin > General settings, and down to the last option and set Thumbnail display as ‘Square, captions underneath’, then the album title should appear below the album thumbnail. But as I have said with mine, I am doing that and the album title is not appearing.
My gallery is at http://www.stephenjudge.ie/photos/
These are 2 separate problems. Kahome’s album captions should appear overlaid on the album thumbnails, but I see they are not showing up in Firefox. Stephen, what you’re reporting looks like a bug I must have introduced in the latest release (as part of a change I made to fix another problem…). I’ll work on getting both issues fixed.
Thanks Mike, will appreciate
I just uploaded a new version (3.4.5) that fixes both these issues. If you see any further problems, let me know.
Thanks Mike, it is fine now
Thanks Mike for fixing that. Mine albums seem to be mostly working now. I opted to use the Album title overlay theme. My album titles are appearing on all but the last album on my Gallery. The album title is visible when hovered over with a mouse but the overlay is not displaying. I’m not sure why this is.
I just spent some time reviewing it, and I’m not sure what’s causing the problem with that album’s caption. The HTML for it is getting garbled on your page for some reason. When I add that same album on my computer, the caption for it appears fine and the HTML is fine.
Could you let me know the exact shortcode you are using, so I can try that? Also, please try temporarily displaying them in a different order – I’m curious if it’s something to do with that album, or if it’s just whichever one is last.
Hi Mike,
The Shashin code I am using is:
[shashin type=”album” id=”19,18,17,11,12,13,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,15″ size=”small” crop=”n” columns=”max” caption=”y” order=”date” reverse=”y” position=”center”]However as you suggested I changed it to set the order to ‘id’ and turn off the reverse order. So the new code is:
[shashin type=”album” id=”19,18,17,11,12,13,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,15″ size=”small” crop=”n” columns=”max” caption=”y” order=”id” reverse=”n” position=”center”]When like this all the album captions are appearing fine. But if I change back to my original code, the caption is missing again from the last album.
I had a look at the HTML it is producing and it looks okay to me, I am not sure what looks garbled, but this is not my area so I could be wrong.
I have left the code is the alternative way you suggested for now so you can see the difference.
Thank you for the details. I’ve found and fixed what I think is the problem. But I have not uploaded the change to wordpress.org yet. There are a couple other issues I’d like to look into first, before pushing another update (I don’t want to give people update fatigue). I’ll push the update probably this weekend or early next week.
That’s great Mike, thanks. I have an two unrelated questions if I could ask you.
1. Is it possible to force links from my albums or photos to point to their location on Picasa Web Albums rather than on Google+. When I visit Picasa Web Albums and get redirected to Google+, I am given an option to go back to Picasa Web Albums with Google adding ?noredirect=1 to the end of the address, so can this be added to the end of album and photo links from Shashin?
2. Is it possible to read the Copyright permissions set for each photo from Picasa Web Albums and display this as a symbol on the display window of a given photo in Shashin. The reason I ask is I set the majority of my photos to have a Creative Commons license in Picasa Web Albums. This is shown in the bottom of the right side information panel under Photo Reuse, e.g. https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/kC8U35uzV_rz1hUOZsqdedMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
I would like to have the fact that my photo is licensed under a Creative Commons license to be displayed on the photo display in Shashin, and if possible to link to the said Creative Commons license page. You could display the licence as a Creative Commons logo or just plain text. One of the things I don’t like about Google+ for photos is that it does not display this Photo Reuse information anywhere. Ultimately I want to move away from using Picasa Web Albums and Google+ in favour of using OpenPhoto on my site for this reason, but until I do I’d love to have this feature in Shashin.
These are both good ideas. Having a “no redirect” option should be straightforward to add to Shashin. I’ve added it to the issues list: https://github.com/toppa/Shashin/issues/56
I don’t see any license information available in the Picasa API, so that means I can’t show it in Shashin.
I hadn’t heard of OpenPhoto. It looks like a great project. I’ll check it out – maybe I can integrate it with Shashin.
Great news about the ‘no redirect’. Pity about the license information, I figured this might be the case and this is also the reason why the information is not displayed in Google+ because Google probably figured it wasn’t worth building API support for it because, hey who cares about copyright, right!
OpenPhoto and Trovebox are two parts you should look at, a bit like WordPress, OpenPhoto is the open source project and people can self host OpenPhoto, whilst Trovebox is the commercial side of the project where they provide hosting or connect to your own Dropbox, EC2 or Internet Archive space.
If you are interested in these you should also look at MediaGoblin, a similar idea to OpenPhoto (self hosting your media) except designed for a broader set of media such as photos, videos, music, whatever.
I just realised it would also be great if you could integrate support for Flickr too. I have a collection of photos there and I am currently using a very ugly extension to display them on my blog. There are probably better extensions but I just haven’t gotten around to trying out some new ones. I kind of gave up on Flickr and stuck with Picasa, now I want to move away from both of them but it would still be nice to have Flickr support so I can remove the current ugly extension I am using.
Adding Flickr support has been on my to-do list for years, but I’ve never gotten to it – mainly because the Flickr API is unnecessarily complicated, and I don’t use Flickr (and no one is paying me for my Shashin work – I get very few donations). But for the next version of Shashin I’m going to focus on expanding the services it works with. No promises, but I’ll try for at least some basic Flickr support.
Mike have you heard of Flattr. It’s a micro-donation system for people to show their gratitude to creators for their creations. For the creator they submit their work to Flattr and place a Flattr button somewhere on their site relative to their work. The button is very similar to a Facebook Like button. People like me create an account on Flattr and deposit money into it and set a monthly budget. The we click on Flattr buttons across the web to show our gratitude for your work. At the end of the month our monthly button is shared out evenly to all the creator whom we Flattred. It is a very easy, fast and social way to donate to creators for their work.
I Flattr people on a regular basis and I am much more likely to click a Flattr button an make an instant donation than I am to bother going through a PayPal payment.
You could build Flattr into your plugin, just placing a Flattr button on the Shashin admin page in WordPress and users can instantly donate to you. I have seen plenty of plugin developers do the same with PayPal but I never bother with a PayPal donation because I don’t trust PayPal and it’s a cumbersome system.
I’d be more than happy to Flattr you for your work on Shashin.
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