New image gallery plugin – needs testers

… I can’t seem to get the ‘< !–exhibit– >’ tag to work in the post so I can get a full-sized image to appear as I want it before the text (not suppressed) and the other thumbnails to appear as normal at the bottom of the post. Similar to the thing georgianlady was wanting.

suey, I tried to get that to work as well, and I couldn’t (as you may have read above). I ended up abandoning that aspect of it as I think it’s really not going to work with the current version of how it’s coded.
You can do the suppress text method, but then I find that the photo just goes where it wants to, that’s at the top of the post, right under the date.
Anyway, I ended up doing popups (with the addition of a different popup method as I was talking about in a prior post earlier in this thread), and also can use the exhibit_full.php page option.
I am *hoping* that the display inline feature will come back to work — I like putting a 10px white border around the photo, and a div around that which has a 10px silver border, so the photo sort of has a nice frame … so that’s how I’d truly like to have EXHIBIT work to display inline, and leave all the thumbnails at the bottom as they show up now in posts. Action desired: Click thumbnail, picture shows up in the text where you placed < !--exhibit-- > in the template, with a div able to be styled, and the thumnails stay and the client can just click thumnails at will for the large photo to be replaced in the div.
Hmmm. Perhaps the right method for this would be for EXHIBIT to append a div onto the end of the post, above the thumbnails, with the first thumnail’s large image in that div … with the clickable thumbnails to replace that image as already stated in prior paragraph. is that possible in a future edition?
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Another idea about EXHIBIT for future editions, in the edit interface, is it possible to make photos individually clickable to add into a post … instead of the whole directory only … but give options to do WHOLE DIRECTORY, INDIVIDUAL PHOTO, or MULTIPLE PHOTOS via ctrl-click … ? ?? Also, maybe “whole directory” can be made to check names of photos in post already, and only add new ones? That may be overkill for this plugins functionality, but thought I’d throw that out there anyhow ??

Bump! I really could use help with this:
Im having problem getting this to work.
I’m only getting this:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: add_action() in /www/w19577/www-root/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/exhibit10.php(159) : eval()’d code on line 1

ringmaster: Build/rebuild thumbnails for individual images only

It should rather just look for images which don’t have a thumbnail and create thumbnails for those. Or maybe integrate the thumbnail function with the WP image upload & thumbnail creation page (wp-admin/upload.php)

So there should not be a way to rebuild all of the thumbnails even if they’re already there? I guess that sounds like an odd thing to do, doesn’t it?
I hate to say it, but I’m sure that others will concur when I say that I’m not really satisfied with the WP image uploading and thumbnail features. It does what it does, but it has a few shortcomings in regard to what I’d like:

• It uploads the original file and the thumbnail into the same single directory
• It provides no catalogue of the images that you have uploaded previously
• It accepts only one file at a time
• It isn’t available on the page that I’m on when I’m thinking to include a picture
• There is no way to augment the functionality it provides without radically altering or replacing the WP code

WordPress seems to have concentrated on blog features and left the heavy lifting of images for others, which suits me fine.

Yes im getting this in the advanced edit page (in the right form, all the time), i cannot see any folders/pictures in the left form. This started directly after i installed the database tables.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: add_action() in /www/w19577/www-root/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/exhibit10.php(159) : eval()’d code on line 1

ringmaster: So there should not be a way to rebuild all of the thumbnails even if they’re already there?

I just think that its an overhead to recreate all thumbnails even if they have already been generated. How about this … by default only generate thumbnails for images without a thumbnail and also provide a manual link against each image to create individual a (new) thumbnail for it.

Again, great plugin ringmaster! The upload capabilities and the image subdirectory creation changes you mentioned in your previous post would be really nice to have. Even better, it’d be cool to have another setting in a user’s profile for their base upload directory. For example, have a setting so that when user billybob logs in, everything he uploads will go into the folder ~/uploads/billybob/. Then give billybob the ability to create his own subdirectories under that “home” directory.
Thanks again for the time and effort put into this. I’m liking it a lot more than any of the other plugins out there and am really looking forward to the changes you mention for the next release.

Egad… I’ve been using the Vexme.com site for testing of Exhibit 1.0b, so I’m sure you looked at it exactly when I had the inline switched for testing popups. Gah!
But this is an issue no longer, because Exhibit now supports per-post display config! You can make one post use pop-ups and another display images inline. This is working in 1.0b and can be seen in the two posts (so far) on vexme.com. Unfortunately, I’m a tease, since 1.0b is not quite yet available.
1.0b now generates thumbnails in a directory only for those images that do not already have thumbnails. When all of the images have thumbnails, a [rebuild] link appears which will rebuild all of the thumbnails in the directory. I’m thinking that this is somethng you’re not going to do every day, so you’ll just have to accept this one-time server hit if you want to rebuild everything.
The output that Exhibit produces validates as per W3C guidelines. See here and here.
Would anyone be sad if I skipped the file management routines for Exhibit and just wrote a full Upload page replacement?
I have looked at WP 1.3 alpha and it doesn’t seem to offer any extra features over 1.2 at this time – it just messes around with how database table names are accessed. This doesn’t affect Exhibit at all, since the table names that Exhibit uses are all in the Exhibit code. Without a better idea of the problems, I can’t begin to diagnose what’s wrong.
That said, I have Exhibit running just fine on a local system with a 1.3 nightly installed. Works for me.

BTW, will the plugin also generate thumbs for images which I might have uploaded but do not need a thumb for? Not a biggee but just something I was pondering on? Also, when will this new version become available for download?
And yes, good work! Keep it up!!!

Skipping the file management stuff wouldn’t be so bad, that stuff would probably be more usefull as a seperate plugin/patch.

OOOOOH I’m excited! I was tearing through some yahoo group archives looking for something and … anyone who’s ever done that since Yahoo changed the group archiving structure knows how torturously impossible it is to find something two or more years ago by searching, or without knowing exactly when it was posted but know it was over two years ago to four years ago … so I grew weary and went to close windows and had Vexme still opened, so I refreshed it and THAT’s how I learned of the awesome features, through interaction on Vexme posts, without having read anything here.
I see Inline Display working, and that’s truly what I want! I love the way you can put the code in the post … I was starting to suggest that in my above post, and deleted that, not wanting to get so complex, but I see that, once again, great minds think alike ??
Whenever you have 1.0b ready, I’m first inline ?? To have choice when posting for HOW Exhibit will be applied is exactly what I was wishing for so cudos so far!
I’ll be super thrilled to see it working for me, and can’t say how much this plugin means already, it’s farly superior to anything else for how well it makes a combo photo/weblog work. I like manually uploading my photos, and make my own thumbs generally, don’t have imagemagic and such, and so this plugin is the only good one available. Really. Even in it’s early stages. I played with Wp-photo before WP 1.2 came out (I liked it, but not fully enough) so I’m glad to see the vast improvement of such things with Exhibit. It sounds like the plan is it’ll work wonderfully for the masses of photos languishing away on my MT Photo Log which I have no desire to switch over due to the heft of changes. To start afresh with photos in their directories usable, whoo hoo!
Silly me. It’s only photo stuff. Why am I so excited? Simple things for shutterbugs are complex though simple and make showing off photos a pure delight. Thanks Ringmaster!

What about this permission Problem? How can I change the chmod settings made by exhibit? I really don’t like to have Files on my Server with different owners than mine so I would be unable to delete them!
Thats not good!

Zip file upload capabilities
If you do this could you make a checkbox to either “leave zip on server” or “delete zip.”
If the zip files were left I’d still have to FTP on over to delete them – not to mention the problems with different ownership for many people.
I’m currently using this plugin and am quite happy with it. Thanks for everything ??

Okay, I must be stupid, but how do you install this hack? I placed all the files in the /wp-content/plugins directory and activated it and I don’t see any extra features afterward. There was no documentation or intallation instruction in the .zip file I downloaded.

I have Exhibit installed on two computers currently. The first was just a test setup to make sure I could get everything working. The install went flawless and it is performing how I want. Great work!
However, on the second computer, I can not seem to get Exhibit to create thumbnails for a directory. I have looked though many different areas of the code, but I can’t seem to find the problem. Interestingly, the code will successfully create the “t” directory for the thumbnails, and can read and resize the images without any faults. However, the call to “ImageJPEG” fails on the output. I have checked to make sure the path names are correct and that the permissions on the “t” directory are not causing problems (I even tried permissions 777), but it is still not creating thumbnails properly. Does anyone have any ideas?