PictPress

Good to see that you’re still improving this plugin. Should I wait for the 1.0 release? ??
Is it possible to split pages? Perhaps I would like to use this plugin as a kind of photoalbum: Clicking a certain (sub)category, let’s say (stray)cats, would lead to 1 post with all the images. But if I have 150 picts of (stray)cats, it would be nice to be able to split the pages just like the wp_paginate plugin, but now inside the post.
Also I prefer popup-images (without clicking through twice for an even larger picture). It’s just easier to browse. Could this be made to an option as well?
I know I’m asking a lot, especially because I’m not writing such a plugin (wish I could though). ??

Yes, sounds like the pp_max_thumbs is the solution I was looking for.
When displaying the images in several pages, I’ll be adding new pictures continously. Is there a way to control the display of the images? Like the new ones first, the rest moving back to the next pages? Or would this mean I still have to look for a plugin that displays pictures, one in each post with date?

Currently the pictures are sorted by filename, but this is easy to change. I will add an option pp_sort_order that can take values like filename, date and date-reverse.
Any other wishes?

It is up to you how you want to organize your pictures.
You can start very simple by setting pp_image_dir to just %postname% and uploading your pictures to wp/wp-content/a-few-flowers in this case.
I have chosen %year%/%monthnum%/%postname% myself, because this scales better with the number of pictures I take (up to about 10 sets of pictures per month). In this case you would have to upload to wp/wp-content/2004/09/a-few-flowers.
If you produce much less pictures per month you could pick %year%/%postname% and if you produce much more pictures per month you could pick %year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%.
In principle you can change pp_image_dir later, old posts should keep working, but if you update an old post, you have to move the pictures to the new pp_image_dir location.

Thanks for the advice. I probably have fewer than one set of pictures a month, so:
I set up a folder called 2004 under wp-content. I put a folder called flowers under that.
In pp_image_dir I have %year%/%postname%/
I created a post called Flowers.
Nothing happened! That is, no pictures are displayed. I have checked, and Imagemagick is installed on my host. I assume that if it was not PictPress would put up some kind of error message.
I set permissions on wp-content to 777. Maybe that is wrong?
Sorry to be a bore about this, but I would really like to get this plug-in working.
Thanks

Ooops. That was me, above, not logged in.

And another question: When I look at your example I notice the the images/post if filed under “Music”, but when I click an image it says filed under “General”?
And does it always take you to another even larger image the second time you click the image? Or can this be sett to “off”?

Thanks Curioso.
I went in and edited the post, and found that PictPress was looking in another directory, one that I think I had set beore for WP uploads. When I moved the flowers folder there, it worked. I was misled by the wp-content folder. That is not my upload folder, apparently.
I’m very happy!

Righto! smooth installation….

Now that it is installed how do you post the link to call the image.

# First upload one or more JPEG images to a subdirectory of the WordPress upload directory according to the setings for pp_image_dir (I use %year%/%monthnum%/%postname% myself).
# Then create a new post that will use this directory (in my case by maing sure that date and Post Slug are the same as used for the directory).

The above part is gibberish to me… where is this directory for me to upload pics to?

Can I use an outsource of pics stored on say flickr and call the images from there? I would like my users to be able to upload pics as well – hence the flickr… or is there an other way to do this?

I already have a bunch of images in wp-images/crayfish/image.jpg can I set the upload directory to that one or do I have to find this %thingy?

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cheers
Paul V

Thanks for this great plugin Curioso!

I’m having a problem with setup though – I don’t seem to be getting the PictPress options under WP>Options. So I can’t really set my preferences. When I try to use the plugin it works except that the image tags in the posts (thumnail and image) have src=”” in the source code. Any ideas?

Thanks everyone,

bic

Is there a way to get separate viewer comments per photo than per album?

Regards
Bill R.

Bic, under wordpress/wp-admin/options.php you will find an alphabetical list of all options, PictPress opions all start with “pp_”.
I have to work to get a real options page…

Bill, if you want comments per photo, you have to set pp_single_post to 0, PictPress will then generate one post per picture, including the possibility to comment per picture. If you still want all pictures in a single post, I cannot help you….

Hi Curioso,

Thanks for the wonderful plug-in you wrote. I just have one question. The pp_single_post has a default value of 0 after I install it. Each picture will show as a post instead of hiding behind the original post. I don’t know what other value this option can be set. I tried 1 and it does not have any effects. Your help is really appreciated.

Dalman

Ive tried installing all 3 versions listed for this plugin. I could not get any to work. I am using wp 1.5.

When uploading the pictpress.php from the 1.0 alpha version. I get an error in my admin folder.

I tried using the previous versions and do not get any options in my admin area to see any settings. Any advice to a working download and instructions on how to install with wp 1.5?

Thanks,

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