Author: isaac

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Photopress 0.7.3

After trying the last release out on my blog with about 400 or so photos I realized the mass image editor needed a paging function. So now it lists 50 images at a time. I think some sorting would be nice next.

Deleting an image now deletes the original too. You can also set an option to always allow deleting, even if an image is used in a post.

Installation is a little different now. All the files are in a single folder – I learned that WordPress will find plugins files in folders. Just extract the archive in your plugins folder. Create a “photos” folder under wp-content and make sure it’s writable. If you’re upgrading you should delete your old plugin files first, at the very least photopress.php.

Download Photopress 0.7.3: photopress.zip OR photopress.tar.gz

Update: Mindcore found a bug where if you’ve upgraded from 0.5 then upgrading between 0.7 versions would re-run the import function, replacing any new data you’ve entered with the old data. This is now fixed.

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Fixing the sidebar

When the option to list the posts containing an image is turned on the default WordPress sidebar template thinks an image page in the Photopress album is a search page (it is – that’s how we know if an image is used in a post). While correct, this makes the sidebar ugly. But it’s such a neat feature, it’d be a shame to disable it. Here’s how to fix the default template’s sidebar.php:

1. Look for is_search() and add && empty($_GET['pp_image']) to that elseif statement. (this suppresses the search stuff when it’s displaying an image)

2. look for is_home() and add || !empty($_GET['pp_image']) to that if statement. (this shows the normal homepage sidebar when it’s an image)

Here’s a zipped replacement sidebar.php if you don’t want to do this yourself.

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Photopress 0.7.2

This version fixes more of the bugs introduced with 0.7 and the database table. Thanks to Roge especially for spotting bugs and suggesting fixes. I also added a mass image info updater to Manage:Photopress Album for quicker data entry. If you’ve been waiting for a relatively stable 0.7, this is probably it.

Download Photopress 0.7.2: photopress.zip OR photopress.tar.gz

Right now deleting an image doesn’t delete the original – should it? Also, I’m wondering if I need to write some sort of cleanup function to fix any bad entries in the database that the buggy earlier versions may have introduced. With hundreds of images the mass updater gets slow – I think I’ll either do pages of 50 or so or split it by category.

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Photopress 0.7.1

This version fixes a bunch of bugs introduced with the database table. No more errors with zero or one image uploaded. There’s now an option to retain the original images (disabled by default – see Options:Photopress to enable it). Finally, Photopress should now produce valid XHTML. Note that this required putting the album CSS in a separate file, so if you’ve customized album.php you’ll want to move your CSS from there to pp_album_css.php.

Download Photopress 0.7.1: photopress.zip OR photopress.tar.gz

Here’s what I’m planning on doing next:

  • Multiple-file uploader – I’ve got the Javascript to make the form but need to write the PHP to process the files.
  • Optional paths in Options – if Photopress guesses your path info badly there should be an easier way to set it manually.
  • Thinking about how Photopress might fit into WP 1.6.