=== Shashin Notes===
Shashin is a useful WordPress plugin that enables displaying of Google Picasa Album images anywhere in WordPress page.
All you need to do is to examine the author’s site.
and it is a breeze. Let’s think about it just one moment. Why install all manner of galleries on a site from your host. Choosing one album such as Google Picassa Albm to store your images and using this plugin to point to a display of your images with minor effort makes a lot of sense.The following is excerpted from that site.
= Description ==
“Shashin has many features that enable you to display your Picasa photos in a variety of ways in your WordPress posts and pages:
* Embed a gallery of your Picasa albums, and all the photos in each album.
* Show your photos with Highslide. (An advanced installation)
* Pick individual photos to display, in any size supported by Picasa.
* Pick photos from any combination of albums to display in groups of thumbnails.
* Show thumbnails of your newest photos, from one or more albums.
* Display album thumbnails for albums you choose, or all your albums, sorted however you like. Includes links to Google Maps.
* Display any number of random photos, from one or more albums. You can also choose to exclude certain photos or albums from random display.
* Use widgets for all of the above!
* Customize the Shashin stylesheet to suit the theme of your site.”
We found shashin enabling picassa galleries is a straight forward plugin that can be enhanced by drilling further into the instructions. We appreciate that installation for this wordpress blog plugin can be operational in a very short time.
For illustration of specifying specific albums, we examine keys of albums in Shashin plugin and insert the keys to those specific albums.
We did observe that our blog site screen generation was exceptionally slow after installing this plugin. We believe this to be the delay in making the connection with picassa album.
Archive for the ‘Photo galleries’ Category
Shashin Plugin
July 30, 2008Gallery2wpg2plugin
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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.
Discovering: Build Your Own CSS-based Gallery
July 3, 2008
Introduction to CSS-based Gallery
Build Your Own CSS-based Gallery is a site worth examining carefully. As we viewed this site we were amazed at the efforts that produced photo albums of such a wide variety of styles based on cascading style sheets. Our eyes were originally drawn to the right panel that listed “Recent Pages”. We thought that the demos in the that panel were the only examples. After viewing demos we discovered many other styles for presenting photo albums. We could spend weeks browsing this site for other useful “css templates” but our objective is to continue researching WordPress photo album plugins. We will revisit this site since we are also interested in learning by example the use of cascading style sheets. For anyone learning cascading style sheets (more…)
AWSOM PixGallery Version 4.5.5
July 1, 2008Awsom PixGallery is a wordpress plugin that enables an array of thumbnail images.
Selecting a gallery results in viewing the images in that gallery. Selecting a thumbnail image increases the image
Details for this gallery is located at awsom.org
After viewing the sample gallery, the feature that caught our eyes was: ”Easily Updated: Adding or removing images is as simple as adding them to the original folder–Pixgallery detects the new or changed images and adds them into your gallery with no work on your part. You can even add entire new folders of images just as easily by uploading them.” Since we have uploaded images earlier, we are proceeding on assumption we can use the same images for this gallery.
awsom.org contains features that we will subsequently tweak. But, for the time beng, we will pass on to the next photo album.
Plugin – ANIga gallery
June 30, 2008ANIga gallery enables viewer to select an image from an array of a thumbnail images, and the selection generates a larger image below the array of mages. This plugin in feature rich
At the bottom of enlarged selected image is menu structure for “thumbnails and slideshow with information as to size of image, dimensions of image and number of views.” A unique feature of this technique is that when displaying the larger image, the previous image is shown as thumbnail on the left and the next images is shown as thumbnail on the right. (more…)
