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Thanks DrDivina. So which script should I try? Any recommendations?
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Group-Blog ?I’m trying to integrate P2 in the Buddypress Group Blog plugin and can use all the help I can get…
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: P2 on a sub page?Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Why is the timezone dropdown such a mess?You can always use the +- UTC at the bottom if you happen to know yours.
I don’t. Not for Mumbai or Barcelona. And I can’t think of any other big cities near those. In the US you usually see GMT instead of UTC, but I guess UTC is more politically correct or something. And you apparently want to be inclusive towards the Antarcticans.
type the nearest large city and it will scroll to it
It doesn’t. It only scrolls by first letter. So if you start typing Barcelona, you get Barnako, Adak, Rainy River, Casey, Eucla, LHI, Oslo, Naura, Abidjan in sequence.
I can Google my way around it, but the point is that the timezone dropdown is a piece of crap and needs to be fixed.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Why is the timezone dropdown such a mess?It has 10 cities in Antarctica, but no Mumbai or Barcelona…
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Plugin for digital product download link by email?Anyone?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: WP_SITEURL, WP_HOME confusionThanks esmi! That works.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: WP_SITEURL, WP_HOME confusionThat doesn’t work, anujchauhan. It just prints/echoes the URL.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Best gallery plugin for photographers?The ZenPhotoPress plugin is very effective for adding pictures from galleries in ZenPhoto to blog posts. The plugin also has short codes to add entire galleries to for example WP pages.
Picture links open ZenPhoto pages for some reason, but it should be possible to make them open in lightbox, FancyZoom or whatever you’d want to use.
Anyway ZenPhoto’s transparant templating system makes it easy to add the right header, footer, etc., and make it use the same stylesheet as the rest of your site.
I use NextGen Gallery in another site. That’s certainly an effective alternative, but I think I’ll standardize on ZenPhoto now. It seems more solid and versatile.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Best gallery plugin for photographers?Thanks for that download link code, Ipstenu!
‘Full image protection’ (under Options > Image) also has a ‘download’ option in the pulldown menu that “forces a download dialog rather than displaying the image”. It’s puts in the same download link.
Nice transparant templating system as well. 🙂
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Best gallery plugin for photographers?OK, tried ZenPhoto and Plogger.
Plogger is 1.6 Mb, ZenPhoto 15 Mb. Plogger does basically the same things ZenPhoto does and the structure is very similar. Both handle FTP upload of hi-res/5-6 Mb photos fine.
But ZenPhoto is much more sophisticated and user-friendly, has many more features, effective plugin for WordPress integration, etc.
Despite what this review says ZenPhoto also has a sophisticated feature to protect the original images.
I haven’t found a feature to add download links yet, instead of opening the full images.
For more regular purposes NextGen Gallery is probably still the best option. The main reason I had to find an alternative was that it chokes on hi-res, 5-6 Mb files.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Best gallery plugin for photographers?I doubt, for instance, if you Googled “network geek” you have my gallery listed quite as prominently as it is had I used something other than Flickr.
I’m actually becoming kinda anti-SEO. I don’t want just anybody to find my sites; I want a relevant audience. That whole Google paradigm is kinda collapsing at the moment, because only a few big agreggators like Google really profit from it.
You mentioned not wanting to use a external service, but I thought I would mention Smugmug anyway.
Well, don’t… 😉
I distrust third party services for similar reasons. Why is it a good thing to have bandwidth and space on a different server? My Bluehost hosting contract already offers virtually unlimited space/bandwidth. Why would I go to Amazon? Or SmugMug? Or Picasa?
Amazon couldn’t make online retail profitable, so they started selling their IT infrastructure. Cloud computing is bogus. Clueless MBA’s are dazzled by the buzzword, but serious IT departments aren’t buying it.
Sure, a lot of these web 2.0 services are free, but at some point they will have to make money to stay in business.
In this case I’m not even looking to build a public gallery. It’s for clients only. I’ll probably even put it behind a login. I’m not looking for flashy ways to display my pictures to the world (Simpleviewer). I need a PHP script to present hi-res pictures on my server for download to clients.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Best gallery plugin for photographers?I haven’t looked at Flickr, because I don’t want to use a third party service. I basically need an browser interface for big image files on my own server.
Will report back when I’ve tested the scripts…
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Best gallery plugin for photographers?Thanks Ipstenu!
That looks more like it! I knew there had to be something like that. 🙂
Plogger could be an option as well. Found it with the other names.
Interesting evaluation here.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Email CaptureIs there a WP plugin that does this?