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Nice!

I’m probably moving off Exhibit anyway, but since I’ve yet to find a decent solution I might still try this out.

Thanks for sharing.

I opened a ticket at trac, and rob1n promptly replied. I thought I should update this thread too, in case anyone else wonders.

Once you publish a post (with or without setting a post slug), that slug, by default, stays like that so there are no broken links, unless you manually alter it. This is because that URL is what you ping the notification servers with.

I would save & continue, look at your draft, then publish.

Oh, and to get back on topic: exhibit does (did?) a lot of what you’re looking for. You won’t get pure HTML, nor (i believe) Google-friendly image integration. But you will get very a very smooth admin interface (from the Write Post-page, upload, upload zips, generate thumbs, select images, select (optional) previews for the (optional) post-gallery, and so on and so forth).

You can mix thumbs and full size images with the text of a post. You can set custom CSS for your images and thumbs. In fact, there’s so much that can be done with this plugin I still haven’t (after 3> years of use) tried it all. I mostly add a bunch of images to a post, select one of the better ones as a preview (a thumb displayed at the top of the post, linking to a javascript popup-gallery for all attached images), and let exhibit handle the rest.

But then again. I’m beating a dead horse here, and you should probably not repeat my misstake. ??

An added benifit of having images in the actual HTML is that your photos will keep working even if the plugin is abandonded…

I’m still using exhibit btw – in WP2.2 – even though I know it’s insanely stupid. Every image attached with this plugin is another hook swallowed, that I’ll inevitably have to pull back out some day…

I dread the day.

In your wp-config.php, comment out the line that says:

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

like so:
//define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

It helped me.

This helped me too. But holy #$%*…could this setting be in a less intuitive location?

Quoted for emphasis. Seriously, why isn’t this a quick-setting in the actual Write Post-page?

mir123 – thank you so much for the info on getting Exhibit to use lightbox! I will definetly try it out myself sometime soon.

I’m afraid I can’t help you with modifying Exhibit though. I know next to nothing PHP. However, I’m still interrested in pooling some cache to pay a developer to update the plugin for us.

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Perhaps the integrated upload functionality of the latest WordPress versions are everything one needs for photo hosting, but I haven’t experimented.

I felt that I should probably answer this “question” I posed, for the benefit of… well. Future reference mostly.

Since I wrote this, I have done some extensive testing of various solutions; external galleries, other plugins and indeed – the WP 2.1 built in upload.

I found several shortcomings that makes the WP upload-thingy unfit for dealing with my photo publishing needs:

• No support for selecting multiple files for upload (nor support for (zip) archived files).
• No support for sub-directories (I want a structure like: uploads/photos/year/month/day/post/image.jpg)
• No good interface to the filesystem (I need move, rename and delete)
• No good gallery-solution.*

*I would’ve liked to assign a directory (containing images) to a post and having a lightbox-esque solution, that would let the user view the concent of said directory. (instead of manually attaching every single photo like we do in exhibit)

What I would really like to see (in a future version?) is for this plugin to do some kind of caching. Loading my blog (default kubrik theme minus Categories; only archives presented in the sidebar) requires 320> request. About 300 of them are done to populate WP-dTree’s list – on every pageview.

That’s a major – major – overhead, but I do really enjoy the smooth navigation dTree offers.

Unfortunatly the plugin isn’t free (as in freedom) so I can just hope mr. Hwang comes back from his internet hiatus soon.

Or perhaps someone knows of an alternative to this plugin?

Ah, silly me. I forgot to save the post first. XD

Everything works a charm!

There is someone else out there running this plugin! It feels as if I’ve been all over the WordPress community, looking for signs of support or sympathy.

Thanks for sharing! I’m now running WP1.2, and all of my galleries are working fine.

The admin interface of Exhibit however, is not showing at all. I’m seriously considering hiring someone to get this plugin (properly) up to date. And then perhaps (if money allows), make it even more usefull and effective.

Preferably I’d like to get a hold of Mr. Winkler himself – and see if money might motivate a new version. Alex King would be sweet too – he has got all that web2.0 sexy ajaxy user interface thingy going strong.

I’m very happy that I was finally able to update without breaking my old galleries though. I put the modified Exhibit in my share, in case there’s anyone else out there suffering.

If you want to help with paying someone for further development of Exhibit, please let me know.

I don’t have an answer, but I wanted to point out a third potential(?) option.

ZenPhoto is a very leightweight and clever image gallery, with an excellent WordPress plugin (ZenPress).

If you’ll let WordPress handle all presentation of photos, ZenPhoto (which is _significantly_ smaller than the other two) might just be a perfect fit.

edit. oh, and I’m not in any way affiliated with either of these projects. I’ve just found myself facing (kind of) the same issue. I’ve yet to decide what way to go though.

I just want to tell you that Exhibit is not compatible with WordPress 2.1 (Ella). This is the error message left by exhibit (locking you out entirely from the blog*)

Could not find pluggable-functions.php.

I’ll have to stay on 2.0.7 until I figure out a satisfactory solution. There’s over 1 200 photos in hundreds of posts that I’ll have to manually re-attach, so this time I’ve got to make damn sure it’s future proof.

If a solution somehow can be found within WordPress itself, it is sure to be kept unbroken or atleast supported/upgraded as WP develops.

I’ll keep trying things on my test install whenever I some time off for private to-do’s, and will update here whenever I decide, just in case anyone is interrested. ^^

*you can connect with FTP and move the the exhibit-folder out of the plugin directory to fix this.

I’ve looked at Gallery2 before, and having it integrated with WordPress might be just the (robust) solution I’m looking for.

I believe I compared it to Coppermine not too long ago, and my memory tells me Coppermine seemed like the better choice. A quick google told me there is indeed WP-plugin for Coppermine too, but it seems to be less convincing;
https://www.stilglog.com/wordpress-plugins/coppermine-plugin/

I’ll take some time soon and look into these options. Please do post more suggestions, opinions and tips if you’ve got ’em.