PictPress

Looks like a great plugin, Curioso! Thanks for creating it and sharing with the rest of us.

Looks nice. Here is a another spin to this idea. Create single post from each photograph in a directory. So for example there is a directory where you dumb each of your photographs. WordPress/Plugin/regular job automatically makes a single post for each photograph.
It is essentially doing what you can acheive by creating a single post and attaching an image with it. I know few people have their photolog like that take a look at this
https://www.prashantmullick.com/plog
But my suggestion would make them only upload and enteries are made automatically.
Pankaj

Pankaj,
Here is how I have setup my photolog that you mentioned in your post.
posts_per_page is set to 1
what_to_show is set to posts paged
archive_mode is monthly
I am using WP 1.01 I upload my pictures via FTP and then include a link in the post.
I have the ‘image’ quicktag modified to accept the name of the file, when I click on it. I have also modifiedit so it spits out directly the proper location of the image file and the div that gives it the border and padding.
I do this because I like to compress my images using GIMP and do not trust image modification tools to do it automatically after I have posted the image.
You can find info on how to modify the quicktags from the WordPress Wiki.
Hope this helps.

Vohiyaar
Thanks for the detailed info. I want to eliminate the process of creating an entry. Sort of Gallery + comments. Pictorialis sort of does the same but what I am looking is a sort of plug-in which you can activate.
Pankaj

Wow…good job! That was going to be the next step in Pictorialis. If you dont mind, I would like to offer this as an extra plug-in for pictorialis.

LaughingLizard, I am not using Pictorialis because I would like to stay with the main stream of WordPress. You can use/adapt my plugin if you want.
Pankaj, I am not interested myself in the automatic single post per picture option. What you want sounds like an adaptation of the blog-by-mail script, this now polls a POP mailbox, but could also look at an incoming directory. I have coupled it to the Publich form because this gives me a chance to add metadata and comments before I publish the post.

Okies, the dense newbie strikes again. I’ve installed PictPress and activated the plugin just fine. Where I’m totally lost is when I get to the uploading/posting instructions.
It says:

First upload one or more JPEG images to the permalink directory you want to use
(I use YYYY/MM/post-name myself).

You lose me right there. ?? The way I understand things so far, the permalink directory is virtual. For example, if I have a post that’s at https://blog-cafe.com/archives/315/ if I log on via FTP and look for that directory, it does not actually exist. So, how exactly do I proceed to upload the images and where? (Told you I was a total newbie…)

> So, how exactly do I proceed to upload the images and where?
Normally the permalink directory would be virtual, but my plugin assumes it does also exist as a real directory; this does not interfere with the normal operation of WordPress.
So you would have to create a directory archives/315 within your site directory via FTP and upload images to this directory. This might be a problem because you maybe do not know the post-ID yet when publishing…
I am running WordPress on a home Linux server and can just copy/export images to a directory shared via Samba, from my iMac computer….

As I see it now it’s almost exactly what I had in mind for a photoalbum I want to create. Momentarily I’m converting my site from MT to WP, so I haven’t tried it out yet.
What would make it perfect for me is if I added these pictures to a single post which was assigned to a unique category, for instance ‘animals’. The pictures should then appear in the post/category, but limited in number per page. So let’s say about 20 picst per page. The pagenumbers at the bottom of the page should then point to the next 20 picts etc.
I’m just starting myself with PHP so I wouldn’t know where to begin. ??
Also I’d like the bigger images to be popups. When having an image bigger than 600px in height it no longer fits in the browserwindow. And personally I never cared much for the “next” en “previous” thing… I prefer a quick and clear overview of the content.
Final question: where do the comments come from at the bottom of the thumbs? Are these the filenames?
Great plugin! As I said, almost perfect for me. :):):)

Could you tell me where I could modify the files so to make a number of pages per category? It’s no rush, because like I said I’m converting by blog to WP right now. Now when I click on a page in your demo I get the larger images instead of another page with thumbnails.
And the popup, I guess it’s a matter of taste, but like in your example there are some pictures that can’t be seen entirely. Without the headers and links etc. there might be enough room though. On the other hand, a lot of space around the pictures is also beneficial when viewing…
Jpeg-comment? I’m not familiar with that. Is this only possible when using images made with a digicam?
I read your new post on your site about your plans for the future. Like I said, sounds perfect to me!
* I would like something like subtitles for the picture pages that are used as caption for the thumbnails.
* Merging of new images in a picture directory with the previously generated content.
?? ?? ?? ?? ??

OK. I tried that, with mixed results. Under Firefox 0.8, I get no picture, only the text I typed in the post. Under IE, I do get a broken picture link, but when I check properties for it, it gives the path to the picture as https://blog-cafe.com/images instead of, for example, https://blog-cafe.com/archives/315/
Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

Benoit,
Are you refering to my post? If you are, then,
1) Did you upload the image to the directory that is mentioned in the quicktags.js file for the ‘img’ tag?
2) What html tags do you see in the post area when you click the img tag and enter the filename?
If you aren’t refering to my post, then nevermind… ??

It is very likely that in the future the WP rewrite rules will get a -f and -d flag, which say “if the file or directory does not exist” which would interfere with this plugin. This won’t happen for at least a few months, but I just wanted to give you a heads up. I would recommend putting things like this inte the wp-content directory, which was created just for this purpose.

Sorry real noob here…
Is there an actual howto / config help site some where on how to set this plugin up???
I am kinda lost on the permalink as well.. I made the dir and tried to edit the .htaccess file… but i don’t know which .htaccess i am to edit… and I tryed the link but it didn’t work…
https://mysite.com/cache/images/misc/gf.gif
So I have this;
/www – wordpress home
/www_otherfiles/pictpress/ – pictpress home
/www_otherfiles/pictpress/images/misc – a dir with a pic in it…
my .htaccess file looks like this
RewriteRule ^cache/([0-9]+)/(.*) /www_otherfiles/pictpress/resize.php?size=$1&path=$2
and it is located in
/
/www
/www_otherfiles
/www_otherfiles/pictpress/
But nothing works… any ideas???

I have released a new version of PictPress. A lot of the things that were causing problems have been made optional.