WP-Gallery

You could try Exhibit or Pictorials II which, imo, provide much better functions if you are looking to get photos on your site.

I’d do that – except I have like 500 pictures in a Gallery already that I would hate to redo ??
A gallery implementation for WP would just be beyond awesome!

Wait a minute! I don’t want to get into a debate here, but how can you actually compare Exhibit or Pictorialis II to Gallery? Personally, I have spent an ungodly amount of hours searching for the best image gallery package there is. Even after installing Gallery, I kept on searching. However, nothing can compare with its offerings. Bharat’s Gallery began over four years ago and has been in active development ever since, now with over 20 people on the development team. I have seen, along the way, how other image gallery packages try to emulate what Gallery is doing. For instance, the latest gallery version has a fullscreen java slideshow that displays images free of any textual obstructions. Do any other image gallery programs have that? No. But, I can guarantee you that they will in the future. I don’t know how pretty and neat the coding is (I’ve heard that it isn’t) with Gallery, but I love its functionality. I agree with the previous posts in this thread, that a Gallery implementation for WP would be terrific. The problem with using Exhibit or Pictorialis II is that by the time one of them has half of the features that Gallery does, Gallery will have moved on to something twice as great. Can you tell I’m a Gallery fan? Believe me, I’ve looked around for something better and continue to do so, my little time-wasting hobby. That’s just my humble, but backed by over 200,000 Gallery-using websites around the world, opinion.

My only reference to using a setup like WP vs Gallery is that you would then have the ability to cross-reference photo catagories, easier layout customization, options for different display output, rss feeds for comments, a true admin system, MySQL database reliability, and none of the bloat of multiple files of one photo that Gallery creates.
Gallery is a nice app, but when you try to really work with it and the code it becomes a nightmare. It may have some plush extras like the java slideshow, but doesn’t change the fact that isn’t really what I want to accomplish with a gallery system. Why make a slideshow in java anyhow… just more bloat. Now, compare a system like WP that allows me to really add some functionality to organization, like grouping muliple photos in different albums to a specific catagory then the ability to view all those photos (from different albums), or write more information about photos (groupings and individual) since the photos become more integral to the publishing platform thus user viewing is more pleasant.
It really comes down to personal taste, but I, like you, constantly look for a better photo system. Makes you wonder if Gallery is that great; why do we keep looking.

ravan:
Understandable. Just trying to lend a hand. A simple option from moving to WP from Gallery (or working them together) would be to install Exhibit, point Exhibits photo directory to Galleries Albums directory. Then in Exhibit, you are able to create directories and/or pull photos from the already created directories of Gallery. Actually, creating the directories in Exhibit might not work due to the filing system Gallery creates, but you could upload photos like normal with Gallery but still able to view and post photos from those albums through Exhibit.
I’ve just helped a friend move his horribly cluttered PostNuke site to a WordPress setup, and he was also using Gallery. I deleted Gallery, but kept the albums folder. I just went in and deleted all the extra files that Gallery created and pointed Exhibit to the albums folder. You’ll see Album1, Album2, etc which you can leave intact if you still want to use Gallery or rename them to more meaningful titles to only use within Exhibit. If you go with only Exhibit, might be useful to telnet in and remove the sized, thumbs, and highlight files (ie /%rm *.sized.jpb, /% rm *.thumb.jpg, etc).

chuckg, if you still read these threads, I’ve updated this plugin for use with WP 1.5 and would like permission to release it. Check your email! ??

Updated WP-Gallery 1.0 (Now called WP-GalleryUpload) by ChuckG at Blindmuse.com has been updated to work on WordPress 1.5 by me.

This plugin integrates image uploading from your Gallery(https://gallery.sourceforge.net) installation directly into WordPress 1.5.

Get the plugin here

It is working fine on my WP 1.5 install. Just unpack the zip file and follow the instructions in the ReadMe.txt file. I wrote the instructions from scratch, so feel free to correct anything I left out!

im having some problems with the plugin. it keeps telling me my password is incorrect. which password is it referring to? my ftp, or my admin for the account?

ive tried many different ones all with the same : Please check to make sure the gallery_user and gallery_password variables are set correctly:

would really appreciate some help. thanks.

anyone familiar with this plugin?

all im looking for is which password it is referring to when it says galleryuserpassword and galleryuserlogin.

thank you

Probably the login and password for the program Gallery itself, looking at how the variables were named. You’ll never know.