Photoblogs and Galleries

Photoblogs and galleries

As an offshoot of examining Flickr and Pictobrowser, our attention is now being focused on photoblogs and galleries. There are many such sites..

In pursuing research on how to present images we followed links from media.pdf provided by LVS Blogging course. Following the links, we discovered: plugins for images NextGEN Gallery We examined NextGen Gallery and performed installation for Discovering NextGen Slideshow

Then, Discovering NextGen Album followed by Discovering NextGen Single image.

We also examined a NextGen widget to add a gallery to the sidebar.

In right panel of Discoveries site http://goldinrule.com/wp1/

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In searching Photoblogs and Galleries

jarolim.com was found but blogger revealed site http://johannes.jarolim.com/yapb runs on YAPB. Which we will be testing next. Ben prepared a slideshow in the header image that was most impressive. Benjacobsen http://www.benjacobsen.com/2008/06/ Ben’s home page is worth taking the time to review http://www.benjacobsen.com/. This site uses rotating images in header as well as a photo gallery. Fantastic presentation at his photo-a-day page. http://www.benjacobsen.com/pad/

Since we have an interest in this this style of blog, we will be experimenting with this technique. And other plugins on our hosted site “Discoveries.”

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In researching this topic we found some great blogs showing images in various ways.

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Photoblogs and Galleries listing of Gallery Scripts:

We will be checking our and testing the Plugins below “that are reported to have been successfully integrated with WordPress.”

• ANIga gallery
• AWSOM Pixgallery Art/Webcomic plugin
• Build Your Own CSS-based Gallery
• Coppermine
• Duh Gallery
• Gallery 2 embedded in WordPress using the WPG2 Plugin
• fMoblog – Upload and display images from your cell phone.
• NextGEN Gallery
• Phpwebgallery through Photon
• Plogger
• Qdig
• eSPG: enhanced Simple PHP Gallery
• WordPress Include Page Plugin
• Zenphoto – +WP plugin
• w3images gallery – add an useful and costumizable Images Gallery to your WP

As you read this list, we would be interested in your comments as to other galleries that are compatable with WordPress Blogs, as this is a learning process as we try each one of those described above.

Tags: galleries, slideshows