tdiaz

I don’t see why not.

Taking the CMS viewpoint, Posts are just content that can be displayed on a Page.

They work 99% the same way. That’s all I’m using for the photo parts anyway, is pages.

Okay, I sorta think I found my answer accidentally – the template= call on the short code, will pick a template named for what you’ve done, IE, imagebrowser-47.php would be template=47, so presumably the file imagebrowser-47.php would not get written over during an update?

Changing the main photo gallery page, the one that everything else is a sub-page of, to use links to the sub pages instead of shortcodes to the albums actually makes this work pretty much like Gallery2 except that the actual gallery being browsed will not show up in the navigation above- which is fine, as I’ve got it’s name above the photo being shown anyway. My main goal with the navigation was two fold:

To be able to just add stuff in the admin and not have to make a new page/post/thing for each, and for people to browse in/out of each gallery. This does that.

I also figured out that Breadcrumbs NavXT (via the forum), does not have any default CSS, so I added that too, and we’re good to go.

Ahhhh… hah!

That explains why I couldn’t find anything, and the ‘tabs’ I found were the help tabs, when searching through code.

So the sample code in the installation instruction refers to the “breadcrumbs” style, but it does not exist at all unless I added it to my stylesheet.

I never thought to click the “Help” tab because it seems that everyone elses just links back to the forum threads.

Thanks ??

So, here’s what I did:

Created a bunch of albums, one for each year- in this particular site.
Example: https://img43.imageshack.us/img43/1856/sortorder.png

In each I’ll a new Gallery for each item to be filed under that year.

Installed Breadcrumbs NavXT 4.0.1

In page.php for my theme, I placed the code for the breadcrumbs so that it would be active only on pages, and not during posts.

The real reason I did that was I only wanted it for the Galleries, and I wanted it right above the image browser, and it wasn’t working when I added it to view/imagebrowser.php directly. (It was adding an extra ‘home’ link every time the image was advanced, since I am using the [X] don’t refresh the page for the next image option.)

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/postTop.php’); ?>
<!– h2 class=”single-title”><?php // the_title(); ?></h2–>
<div class=”breadcrumbs”>
<!– Added from here –>
<?php if(function_exists(‘bcn_display’)){ bcn_display(); }?>
</div>
<!– to here for Breadcrumbs only on pages, not post titles–>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/postMiddle.php’); ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<!– Metadata – tags, categories, comments and so on… –>
<p class=”postmetadata”>
<?php edit_post_link(__(‘Edit’, ‘vSlider’),”,’??? ‘); ?>

The original line is the h2 class”single-title” php… where I commented out both the html and php and just left it there. I added the <div class”breadcrumbs”… in place of the post title.

Now if I can figure out how to edit the CSS that Breadcrumbs NavXT generates, then I can increase the font size again, so it’s like the page title was.

The reason I didn’t just use the same style as the page-title is because I want the navigation separator ‘->’ to be a different color and I can’t figure out how to do it anyway, but Breadcrumbs NavXT does it for me. So..

Here’s what it looks like:
https://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2939/nggnavexample.png

The page for each year just has the short code for the particular album for that year:
[album id=34 template=extend] and each of these pages is a sub page off the main photo gallery page. So the whole thing is available from one link to drill down into.

Any gallery that is added to that for the year will just show up when that page is selected. The year page can always be selected again just above in the Breadcrumb trail, or the main photo gallery page on level higher, and if they’re done- just select the home, or other page/site selection from either the top or side menus.

Now … if there were an Aperture (Apple) uploader I’d be set.

Support isn’t any better or worse than anything else, the plugin is definitely one of the most actively developed, but a one man show can only do so much. The forum here is the huge problem. It’s practically useless and simply blows me away how lame and functionlessly primitive it is for such an advanced product that it’s being used to support.

Could be worse- it could be WPBB or whatever that other “Web 2.0 on Steroids” disaster that seems to be popular, is. They really need to work in something like SMF or PHP-BB that does what it does, best.

Most posts here simply go un-answered as they scroll off the first page and that’s it, lost forever. The search results, even if they were dated and recent first, would be hoards more usable.

That said, I have three sites with Gallery 2, and that thing is just a complete spaghetti coded resource hog. But it has a well matured WP plugin and with the right themes it works very well.

OTOH- NGG is much more active, and yet lags enormously in that area. Sadly. I’m trying to justify switching and it’s an uphill battle at an angle of 85 degrees. Any more and I’d be falling over backwards.

At least, NGG isn’t a Web 2.0 disaster itself.

I’m trying to figure that out now, too. That is the single biggest missing piece of this whole thing compared to Gallery2/3.

There’s tons of posts (and the search function on this forum sucks) but every topic is “CLOSED” and the solutions within are not relevant. The most seems to be Yoast Breadcrumbs, and that hasn’t worked for me either.

It’s not working on any of 8 sites for me either, with 3.3 and 1.9.1.

I only updated one live site, but trying to track it down I setup 7 others. Nothing.

I can only use the upload dialog once, any other use results in the button press being ignored outright. The “progress 100%” goes across and stays there. That’s it.

Using Safari 5.0.4.

Everyone swears by NGG, and right now I’m just swearing at it. I needed this to work.. ??

Looks like a great gallery solution, except documentation kinda sucks, and add this.

So someone can browse the whole thing, which is the one real weakness I’ve found with NGG, documentation and the ability to just have a front end where you can just pick by album to look at stuff.

On plugins, does this mean that all the plugins are installed “active” (can’t think of a better term for it) on all the installs, too? – and that brings up the odds of the random DH 404 voodoo happening I suppose, too.

Or are plugins enabled on a per-domain basis?

I guess I better just make up a bogus domain and see what happens.

Hmmm.. based on the first post description, as I simply don’t see how I can place content on there then.

IE,

site1.com (is the ‘main’)
site2.com/gallery
site3.com/wiki

How would I install MediaWiki on the site 3 address when it’s not got anything in the shell to install to, and have it only be accessible from that domain. As it would have nothing to do with WordPress, but would be linked via plugin, and the same with Gallery3, that is a stand alone item that is also linked with a plugin.

Or just upload some file with a static URL:
site2.com/mediafile.mp3, where would I actually put that? How would a mirror not be the same site?

I gather that I then have control to say that XX plugin or theme is available to XX domain?

Mirroring is virtual, so.. where does the content actually go then?

I have not looked at the DNS on Dreamhost yet, but looking at the docs to the domain mapping plugin, it says not to do it where the ANAME record of the main domain isn’t an IP address, which Dreamhost does use.

If I select mirror on Dreamhost I get no directory in the shell for that site, so where would I actually put content?

On my account now I have one installation at:
https://lostclassics.apple2.info

I have: https://lostclassics.a2central.com/ set as a mirror of the top one. When I go to this one, it changes the URL to the other. It also lists a web directory in the web panel, but that directory does not exist in my shell. So, to me a mirror is virtual, and I can’t have content on the sub site.

What I want to do is is have a blog in the root of the domain, and other content directly accessible from that domain, perhaps a mediawiki install on one, Gallery3 on another, etc. The mirror wouldn’t even allow me a place to install those, that I can tell, where as doing it with CNAMEs might. I have not tried it yet, which is also doable via Dreamhost.

Bingo. Thanks. Thats what I was kinda figuring .. but was worried if it was gonna puke because it can’t get directly to it via the wrong domain. (Thats the part about cPanel I despise the most, that all your stuff is directories off the main domain even if they’re subdomains of another totally different add-on domain)

Thanks ??

Now .. to see if this can be done on Dreamhost since it’s not cPanel- which I presume thats what the mapping is going to do as I specifically do not want subdomains, but completely different domains.

hmmm.. okay, so.. if I can include on something that is not hard coded like a page ID, but rather an extra field, say “location” and it contains “top” or “side” , the question being then, content, “include=(location(top)” or something, whatever the proper syntax would be .. and then put ‘top’ in the page extra field. That basically means just modify the header once and move that over with any theme code changes during an upgrade or such.