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Our first intro to Coppermine was
“Welcome to Coppermine Photo Gallery’s homepage!” and then we visited Demo for cpg1.4.x. The style of the demo brings to mind the appearance of a forum. Examine gallery.net team to learn more about this plugin. The Download is available at sourceforce.net , which includes project summary, web shots, news and statistics (broken link… which prompts us to discontinue pursuing this gallery for the time being.)
Viewing this site failed to incite our interest in installing coppermine-gallery. So, we will pursue the next plugin.Coppermine is available as an application installation through our host site GoDaddy.com. So we will defer pursuing installation and demonstration of this plugin temporarily and continue on the Gallery2. Plugin.
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Gallery 2 “this is the official website of Gallery, the open source web based photo album organizer. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you’re running a small personal site or a large community site.”
The challenge for us is embedding Gallery2 in WordPress using the WPG2 Plugin “WPG2 is a WordPress Plug-in that embeds Gallery2 within WordPress to share photos, videos and any other Gallery2 content seamlessly into the WordPress Sidebar and Blog entries.”
So we downloaded and unzipped both gallery-2 and WPG2. Afterward we became aware that Gallery-2 was available for installation at our host site.
Embedded Album illustrates WPG2:Screenshots of a Gallery2 Embedded Page in WordPress blog. The Author’s home page is an example of album view. WPG2:Screenshots: page 1, page 2, page 3 and page 4. The key is WordPress Plugin for Gallery2, WPG2.org , which among other links is WPG2 Quick Start Guide
Conclusion
After downloading both wpg2 and gallery2 we learned of our inability to specify the correct path between these two plugins. One of the items in quick reference guide was” 3, Move the file “wp-gallery2.php” from the /wpg2/root/ directory to your wordpress root directory, the directory that contains wp-config.php.” We searched for this file unsuccessfully.
Installing gallery2 and establishing a mysql data base on our server required about 12 steps. We were successful in installing gallery2 with db available through our host Godaddy.com. This action resulted in a working account and album for gallery 2. We proceeded with installation of WPG2 Version: 3.0.6. on same file level as Gallery2 , our first uploaded album was successful.
After installing and attempting authentication of WPG2 embedded paths, we were unable to establish the correct paths so that WPG2 and Gallery 2 would enable the WPG2 to “talk” to Gallery 2. We joined the forum but that failed to find solution to the problem after many attempts with WGP2 Paths menu under WPG2. Even after referencing WPG2 Options G2 Paths as examples we continued to be unsuccessful in defining the correct paths for gallery2:WGP2. We also examined the quick start guide describing the wp-gallery2.php which we were unable to find in gallery2 or wpg2 file folders.
Since we were successful in installing gallery2 at least part of our objective was reached.
We are disappointed in that we were unable to complete wpg2 plugin installation, but enough time has been invested in attempts to do so. Thus far we have passed through at least six cycles in attempting to define the proper paths for validation of WPG2 3.0 Plugin. Possibly attempting this installation later, we may find the proper paths that enable WPG2 to function properly with Gallery2.
We will continue to watch the gallery forum as we deactivate WPG2 plugin for now and pursue the next plugin on the list.
