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OK – For anyone reading this, I got a reply back from Pat at Blueblurry, and also looked at moshu’s reply above. Moshu is right that comments template does call on the upload folder for WP. I had designated a bad folder in this section of WP admin, and therefore, the comnents template was trying to call info from an invalid folder. Once I fixed this and pointed the upload folder to the MG2 images folder where the images reside – no problems.

Thanks everyone for the help.

Moshu – Good question, and yes, a lot of the errors go away, but this one remains:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getexif() in /home/wcphotow/public_html/photoblog/wp-content/themes/blueblurry/comments-popup.php on line 32

Also – the ability to post comment goes away completely when I do that. No dialogue box, nothing…

Hi there – I run a photoblog, and I am nothing more than a hack at setting things up on the web, but I have a good server host (iPowerweb) and I tried every gallery software listed above and more (bananalbum, simpleviewer etc). For simple flash style, I use Simpleviewer:

https://www.wcphotoworks.com/simpleviewer/

For my portfolio gallery, I like MG2:

https://www.minigal.dk/

It is smooth as silk to implement, has very intuitive and clean interface, and you can use all kinds of skins for appearance.

Hope this helps.

For what it’s worth, I think ZenPhoto (above) looks like a great solution too – very clean design and looks ‘pro’

Steve Cherry
https://www.wcphotoworks.com/photoblog/

Ian – If you have a look at my blog you’ll see that I ended up going back to the Blueblurry theme to accomplish what I needed. Your advice on excerpts got me going on the archive problem, and looking at old documentation by Pat got my archives running. I can’t find an email for you, but you got me the closest to a solution, and true to my word, if you have a favorite image you’d like a print of, please let me know and I’ll get one sent out to you. Thanks again for your willingness to help.

Steve Cherry
https://www.wcphotoworks.com/photoblog/

Ok – I have been playing with this off and on for a while, and I am afraid I am just out of time. So far, the excerpt function got me the closest, but no cigar. Ian – the code above(previous/next) produced weird results so I just left the original code intact for now lest I ruin the space-time continuum and completely screw this up – please forgive my lack of understanding there.

Let’s assume the following:

1. all high-res images for posting already exist in a folder (gallery program called MG2) called imagename.jpg
2. thumbs are also all created and reside on the same folder with exception: imagename_thumb.jpg
3. My Arzel theme does not come with files “archive.php” and “archives.php” (need to create those I think)
4. I have a page created called “archives” and all images are under category “archives”

How do I get those thumbs to post on that page I created called “archives” using the excerpt box?

Ian – Thank you as well, I have not tried excerpt for this, so will try playing with an old post to see if I can get that to work. I think I understand your directions re: archive and php changes. Will this create an archive of thumbs that I can click to get to the original full size posted pic?

Not sure I understand the next/previous part – I don’t think I understand what you mean by “template file reads” Is that the code I put into the original post to make it work?

miklb – Thanks very much for these links. I had not seen them before. Image browser does not seem to solve my issue with archive page – looks more like a tool to upload images and create thumbs. I prefer to upload images to my MG2 gallery, then use the “img” tag to embed the posted image on my blog. The Taly designs look quite compelling – nice design, but again, lacking archive page of thumbs. I did notice, however, that Taly’s own photoblog has a nice image archive page:

https://www.taly.com.ar/fotolog/index.php/archivos/

Also – I edited the above to reflect that the “next” “previous” trouble comes when I click on a past posting in Internet Explorer – problem goes away for most part in Firefox.