alexkreuz

Sorry, I’ve been very busy. I will do my best to write a complete tutorial by end of friday, the 25th.

This is in regards to IPAP.

Also since there is so much interest in a simple gallery designed FOR wordpress I might take IPAP and continue development with wordpress in mind, as opposed to a standalone …

Who knows, but lets see just wait for the tutorial on friday.

Well, first I guess choose a package that is as small as possible. Using coppermine or gallery with the simple intention of integrating with wordpress is overkill.

Second, try to keep the code changes to wordpress to a minimum. All I added to my theme’s index.php page is “if ($_GET[‘photos’]) { include ipap stuff; } else { do the regular wordpress stuff }”

something along those lines …

IPAP is really nice because you can customize it really easily, move stuff around (for example I wanted the thumbnails below the main image), and so forth …

the one thing i dont like about IPAP is that it uses a text database instead of mysql … if i manually have to change something, its kind of difficult because it uses some weird semicolon delimitation … im going to see about modifying IPAP and having it use MySQL instead … oh well …

I’ll release all my wordpress / ipap stuff this weekend … it’ll basically be the default kubrik theme with ipap integrated … then you guys can see from the source what ive done ..

I integraded IPAP flawlessly with WordPress. To manage the photos / gallery you have to use IPAP’s administration screen, but the visitors see a perfectly integrated WordPress site with Gallery.

I’m not sure if this is the kind of thing you guys are looking for because I haven’t tried any other plugins (not sure if anybody’s done this). If it is, I’d love to share it.

You can see the site at https://luna.cobax.net and click on Photo Albums > Luna on the right to see how the photo gallery integrates.

Ciao.