I’ve been working with Flickr and F Gallery to better organize my photos and break away from my old Coppermine galleries. I can’t find any way of adding photos that are already online to my Flickr account, which is frustrating because of course all of my photos that you can currently see are online, and it would be so much easier to just throw some URL’s at Flickr instead of having to re-upload everything. What might make this even more of a hassle is if I can’t find some of the photos on my computer anymore, and so have to download them from my site before uploading them to Flickr. It would be nice to do this while on a fast connection, but that won’t happen until I’m back on campus, when I’ll be busy with work and friends again.
I’ve had a hell of a time getting this stuff working so far. At first I tried FAlbum and I do not recommend it. It was hell to work with because there was all this styling and useless crap hardcoded right in, and to change the look of stuff, I had to go digging through freakin’ miles of PHP code, commenting things out. I finally got sick of it and thought there had to be a better way. F Gallery has been awesome so far, providing a nice template approach to changing the look of things. There’s been one quirk that has proved irksome, however, and that’s when I list the tags on the display page, there’s a <br /> after each of them, and for the life of me, I can’t tell where it’s coming from. I even went so far as to check the SQL that F Gallery creates to store its data, but nope. I can only figure that WordPress is inserting a break because the tags might be on separate lines, and the whole thing is being filtered through WP. I’m going to tinker with that some more in a minute.
So, all that’s come of this so far are the Recent Photos thumbnails in the sidebar on the home page, and then when you click a thumbnail, it takes you to a page with the full-size image on it. Ooh, and I upgraded to WordPress 2.0. It’s very pretty so far, but I had to turn off the “visual rich” editor immediately because it kept inserting stuff into my page that I didn’t want, even after I deleted it repeatedly.
having trouble with the random <br/> takes? haven’t heard that one yet… have you checked out the tag in the “tag templates” page of the plugin’s admin?
you may be on to something when it comes to WP adding the tag to the end of a new line, I know that I have the plugin create a new line for every tag. A good way to get around that is to use the TextControl plugin and specify that the Page that calls F-Gallery doesn’t have any formatting. Tell me if that helps.
Thanks for the suggestion! I tried Text Control but that didn’t work out because I never got the option to change text formatting on a per-post basis. The main config area did show up under Options, but when I would go to an individual post creation page, the option wasn’t there. I ended up just opening all the F Gallery files and doing a search for the newline character. I changed line 520 of classes.php (
$tags .= $this->tag_replace($tv, $tag_taglist)."\n";) to read$tags .= $this->tag_replace($tv, $tag_taglist)." ";