Frank Strack

@all
There was a critical vulnerability in version 2.0. All users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version.

@all
Version 2.3 is now out and ready for consumption! Let us know how it works for you.

For those of you who are still unable to add captions, version 2.3 (released 10/29/200) will include a mechanism in the post editor to allow you to add/update captions.

@all
UPDATE:
DutchMonkey Productions recommends a new upload location:

/PATH/TO/WORDPRESS/wp-content/uploads/dm-albums/

Version 2.3 is about to be released with this new default upload location.

Thanks for your continued support.

@all

Some users have mentioned that DM Albums are not being created when uploading: all photos seems to upload normally, but then the album doesn’t show up in the list, and when you log in with FTP to check on them, the album is not here, either.

DutchMonkey Productions is working on a fix for this, but here is a workaround in the meantime:

First, check that the dm albums upload folder exists. (You can find the path to this folder in the DM Albums Admin Panel if you’re not sure where to look.) By efault, the folder is called “dm-albums” and should be located just off the root of your blog.

If it exists, make sure the permissions are 0755 or 0777. If it doesn’t exist, you’ll have to create it, set the permissions to 0755 or 0777 and then you should be good to go.

@viviy

You should be able to add captions when viewing the albums, but it seems not all users are able to do this. I’m currently working on a feature to allow this to be done through the DM Ablums Album Manager. A new release should be out this week.

Are you running on Unix or Windows?

Thanks!

@sageturk
Hi there, can you make sure that the DM Albums upload directory (set in the DM Albums Admin panel, under Options) is being created and that its permissions are set to at least 755? This is the most likely reason I can think of for the uploads to go missing (likely has nothing to do with a browser).

Also, are your WordPress installations running on Unix or Windows?

Thanks!

Hi John,

Thanks for writing. This is actually by design. There is a small rendering problem with Safari where artifacts of the scroll button will remain on the thumbnails while you scroll, and the only way to work around this is to use a traditional scrollbar. I haven’t tested this in the latest release of Safari so I will make sure to do so; the previous version still showed this problem.

I will report back.
Thanks
Frank

This feature has been added in the latest release, version 2.0.

Hi, thanks for writing!

To change the thumbnails background, just change the following in styles.css (but make sure you empty your browser cache so you can see the changes!) The values below should give you a white background.

/* MAIN THUMBNAILS */
#td_thumbnails
{
border-top: 1px #FFFFFF solid;
border-bottom: 1px #FFFFFF solid;
border-left: 1px #FFFFFF solid;
border-right: 1px #FFFFFF solid;
}

/* CURRENTLY SELECTED THUMBNAIL */
.selectedthumb
{
border: 2px solid;
border-color:#1472EC;
}

/* REGULAR THUMBNAILS */
.thumb
{
border: 2px solid;
border-color:#FFFFFF;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}

As per your other request, left and right thumbnails is the second-most requested setting. It actually takes a bit of work, but since releasing version 2.0 of DM Albums (today), we will make this request our priority. Look for an update in the coming weeks (or at most month).

@thefashioncatalyst

Thanks for writing. This is probably the most requested feature, and I’m definitely planning to add support for uploading images directly through WordPress.

For now, you upload images by using a traditional FTP, SFTP, or browser upload into a directory on your web server and point DM Albums at that directory.

Good luck!

Thank you! It’s strange that you had that problem…that’s the first I’ve heard of that one!

I’ve actually been using the automatic update myself on some of my blogs and it seems to work fine, so I think it’s (generally) safe to update automatically. If, however, you have a problem like is described here, Smileydog, you certainly took the correct action by doing a clean install.

You should never loose your photos or captions unless you are storing your albums in the DM Albums plugin directory, which is not a recommended practice.

Glad you like the plugin.

Hi there,
There are some plugins that might be interfering with the links in the page and break the fullscreen link. Do you have a plugin installed that is tracking links, such as a Google analytics or Snapshots? Let me know what you have and I’ll install them myself and use them for debugging.

Thanks!

If anyone would like to contribute to DM Albums and provide this support, it would be welcomed by DutchMonkey Productions. Please contact the developers at https://www.dutchmonkey.com/

Thanks!

Thanks to debugging by Vadim Afonkin (https://www.bostonardf.org), the issue has been identified and we will be putting out a patch to overcome the problem.

The issue only appears on systems that do not have the EXIF extensions installed.