Tag: photopress

I think I’ve squished enough of the bugs to share this version. Let me know about any bugs or annoyances you find.

New features:

• Path and addresses in Options – if Photopress guesses badly you can easily enter a new path and addresses.
• Up to ten images can be uploaded at once. (Is this enough?)
• Now inserts simplified image tags, cleaning up the posting window a lot. (Should this be optional?)
• Paging everywhere and better queries so working with lots of images is much smoother.
• One button (Photos) instead of two; rewritten browse and upload tools.
• Sorting all over the place. (Except in the album – should visitors be able to sort the album?)

When upgrading, you should probably first de-activate, delete the old plugin files, upload the new files, then re-activate the plugin. Manage:Photopress has a couple of tools to clean up your DB table if necessary.

Download Photopress 0.8: photopress.zip OR photopress.tar.gz

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.

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.

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.

There’s a lot still wrong with this version, but I think it’s working well enough for testing now. The major change in this version is that Photopress now installs a table in the database. Information entered in the uploader form actually gets saved now.

For a new install, just extract the archive in your WP root folder, make the wp-content/photos folder writable, and activate the plugin. Upload at least two images to make the errors go away (I promise I’ll fix this soon!).

For an upgrade, just make sure you de-activate then re-activate the plugin. That should install the table and import your data.

Download the new version: photopress.zip OR photopress.tar.gz

Try an older version if this one doesn’t work for you: photopress-0.5.1.zip OR photopress-0.5.1.tar.gz

You can find older Photopress code and view code changes between versions at wp-plugins.org.

Thanks a ton to Claus for the db code and ideas.