[Plugin: Photosmash] Various questions on how to use certain functions…

  • Hello everyone! I found this great plugin thats been discontinued. The forum on its site no longer allows posting so I come to you… I am new to wordpress and I am stuck on quite a few things.

    Im using wordpress 3.2.1 and the 2010 theme.

    1. Even though I went to: photo smash settings > Default rating type and switched from none to “5 star”, I dont see it appearing on my thumbnail in the gallery on the main page.

    2. I have a tag cloud widget but the tags assigned to the photos when uploaded dont show up in the tag cloud, and are maybe not assigning to the images at all? I dont have any clue to why they are not appearing once input on the upload form.

    3. How do I get the wonderful search function working like the plugins’ sites’ demo. I assume since my tags are not working my search isnt working. When I search I get no results. This is the sites live demo: https://smashly.net/photosmash-galleries/photosmash-demo/

    4. How do I get the google map widget thing to show in the add photo menu like the demo? I assume I need to do something to the short code but I am new to WP.

    5. I watched the 2nd tutorial video in the tutorials section of the site, and he points out that his image had a mini url. mine does not seem to have that.

    Any help would be amazing!

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  • Byron is a great guy and very smart, and the plugin filled a need at the time, but most of the functionality there has been made obsolete by built in features of newer wordpress versions. I’m still figuring out what those are myself, but I would run away from photosmash and not look back!

    We have been using it for about a year on two of our sites chowstalker.com and dessertstalker.com and Byron helped us configure it but our version 2 will not use photosmash and I advise you to look elsewhere for the functionality you need.

    The custom tables and complex multi-joins for its images, custom fields, ratings and photo-tags etc are real messy and it is very difficult to figure out what the code is doing. That photosmash code is a victim of feature creep driven by user requests and it kind of got out of control.

    I also suspect that it is the underlying cause of random super-slow queries leading to cpu throttling and zombie fastcgi processes on my bluehost shared server. There may also be some chaotic bluehost behavior (as in thousands of mostly idle websites on that same server that may come to life at the same time, bringing everything to a grinding halt.. but without actually crashing) causing random browser sessions to get 500 errors or refresh times of several minutes! I can’t control bluehost but I can streamline and simplify my WP installations.

    So, save yourself some headaches and piece together your own solution using NextGen (or something) and more well-behaved accessory plugins to do ratings and searching and stuff.

    Just my .02 …Ron

    Osakamitu, I think search is a photosmash-extend feature, I have no search and rely heavily on Photosmash for my websites.

    I’m not sure any other plugin or wordpress feature does what Photosmash does — end user uploading of content in a steamlined fashion is still not exactly easily found or done.

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