User gallery?

It depends of wheter the user is logging in at the admin or the frontend at the moment the album is created.

There are two different language files for the frontend and the backend, as well as different functions. Sometimes i make errors in complex situations like here.

I only had the backend case implemented, the frontend will be implemented in the next version ( 4.9.13 )

Thenx for the report, should be fixed in 4.9.13. (not released yet)

PS: VII-B2 is a ‘conditio sine qua non’

I am trying to create a user gallery as well and I manage to set it up as far as it seems to go. Users can register as subscriber and they get their own album in the album “Users”. The feature, that empty albums are not displayed is really perfect here!
Some problems, though: I want the users to be able to create sub-albums to sort their images, and that is where the trouble starts. I gave “Subscriber” album admin and image upload rights, but only in the album they own. This works more or less. The user can create albums in his user album and upload images to the different albums.
First problem: The 100 pictures per day threshold doesn’t work here, because it’s seems like the user get’s a new 100 images for every album he creates.
Secondly, the user still has too much rights. He can create albums only in his own album, but he can set rights as he likes. So he can set the owner to somebody else and thus can’t upload images to his own album. Also, the other user can now upload images into his ablum, because he is the owner…
The user can also set “parents” of the new album to “none” which is bad, because the album will not show on his profile page. Even worse, -none- is the default setting, so a lot of users will no see this option and wonder where their album had gone.
He can also set Links, which is also quite bad in my opinion, so he can create albums and link to any page of my website, which can get quite confusing.
And lastly, the user won’t see any albums in “Album Admin” menu, because it shows the albums with “parents” set to “none” by default, and that’s the level the user has no rights to edit. A click on “Switch to Flat Table” shows his albums, I guess a lot of users won’t find this.
I conclude: Beeing able to build a user gallery is a killer feature! The whole plugin is very nice, but this might be the best feature of all. Flawless integration with the wordpress user management, it’s a dream! I just wish to have this little feature, to make the user be able to create albums. It’s not practially working right now, but if you could make it work, that would be awesome!

I know this has been asked already in another thread, but the fact, that all images are stored in the same folder is a deal here, too. I don’t like the idea of having the user images in the same folder as the rest. Wouldn’t it be possible to at least create subfolders for the users like /wp-content/uploads/user/username123/?

@archeryimages.net:

First problem: The 100 pictures per day threshold doesn’t work here, because it’s seems like the user get’s a new 100 images for every album he creates.

Set Table IX-B5 to anything you want

Secondly, the user still has too much rights. He can create albums only in his own album, but he can set rights as he likes. So he can set the owner to somebody else and thus can’t upload images to his own album. Also, the other user can now upload images into his ablum, because he is the owner…

This was intented to be a feature: One can give an album away.
I can make it so that ( if owners only is checked ) The parent can be set to own albums only, and also implement a ‘do not give away’ switch.

A click on “Switch to Flat Table” shows his albums, I guess a lot of users won’t find this.

God point! flat will be the default from next version on ( 4.9.14 )

Conclusion: Add to wishlist for implementation in 4.9.14:

• If owners only is checked: (Table VII-B1): On creation of album: Set parent to the lowest id (will most of the times be the first created) of an already owned album.
• If owners only is checked: User can set parent to one of his own albums only
• Admin can decide if non admin users can change the ownership (give albums away)

Please tell me if this is it

I know this has been asked already in another thread, but the fact, that all images are stored in the same folder is a deal here, too. I don’t like the idea of having the user images in the same folder as the rest. Wouldn’t it be possible to at least create subfolders for the users like /wp-content/uploads/user/username123/?

If you want that, set up a multi blog site, this will use ( by default ) a wppa+ system for each blog.

• If owners only is checked: (Table VII-B1): On creation of album: Set parent to the lowest id (will most of the times be the first created) of an already owned album.
• If owners only is checked: User can set parent to one of his own albums only
• Admin can decide if non admin users can change the ownership (give albums away)

In addition to the “Flat Album” as default, this definitely solves a lot of trouble I have right now! I am looking forward to this, thank you ;-).

I guess I would add a “Limited Album Admin” Role in Table VII:A where you could define capabilities aside from the “real” Album Admin. I would, for example, not give a Subsriber the right to

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• Link type
• Link to

Most of those capabilities would only confuse the user and I think it’s best to keep the backend as easy as simple for the “regular” user.

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• Link type
• Link to

TBD, Thanx for the input.

Your support is amazing opajaap! This plugin is getting better and better!

@steilenhang:

Thanx, I do my best.

Is the “Default album for ” issue fixed now?

I have to agree, as a hardcore nextgen-gallery user (>10 running installations) i am suprised how much you can do with this plugin! The config backend is so much better than nextgen’s and the support is amazing ?? I am sure I will be around for quite a while…
I have to add something, I think you missunderstood me here. I set the table IX:B5 to 100 pics a day. unfortunately, this comes out to be 100 pics per day per album. So the user can upload a lot more Images than intended just by creating more allbums.

I updated to the latest version and all the new features for a user gallery are indeed working quite well. Some flaws are still there and I will just list what I noticed after some time of testing:

• The “Create” Link in Album Admin doesnt change when hovering and doesnt show a hand icon as the other Links “Edit” and “Delete” do. Confused my at the beginning. Tried with Gecko and Webkit Browsers.
• For non-admin users, there is some info text in the backend that might be confusing. For example, behind the setting for “Photo Order”: “The default setting can be changed in the Photo Albums -> Settings page Table IV-C1.” even though the user can’t change those settings.
• The button: “Insertion Code” in “Manage Photos” makes no sense to a subscriber because he can’t edit pages or posts.
• A little bit below that, there is the link feature:
• “If you want this link to be used, check ‘PS Overrule’ checkbox in table VI.” The user can’t change those settings.
• Also, I think this feature gives too much rights. I don’t like the idea that a non-admin user can link to any website or even within the side. This could result in a confusing behaviour of the site or even result in a security risk for the visitors. I set IX:B10 to “Link is restricted”, I guess if I set this, than the feature should be also disabled in “Manage Photos”.
• I don’t give the user the right to set an own watermark. Even though, a button “Apply watermark” appears. This option should only be displayed if the user actually has the right to change the watermark image.

I hope you will find those suggestions helpful :-).

All the issues are addressed in 4.9.16.

Thank you for going so deep into this.

If you find still anything else, please tell me.

Nice, thanks a lot! Your support really is amazingly fast!

I am preparing the plugin to be used with a lot of user that will create a lot of albums and images, so I want everything to be right ;-).

I want everything to be right ;-).

So do I.

Okay, one little thing (not it’s really going into detail): The “Create” Button in Adlbum Admin hovers now, but doesn’t show a “Hand”-icon as a regular link is supposed to do. Don’t know how this is possible, but it appears in different browser for me.

Will be fixed in the next version.

You can patch it as follows:

wppa-admin-styles.css line 170:

.wppacreate {
	font-weight: bold;
	color: blue;
}

change to:

.wppacreate {
	font-weight: bold;
	color: blue;
	cursor: pointer;
}

and press CTRL+F5 to make sure you load the new version into the browser.