New Gallery
Well i have switched my gallery over to Zenphoto instead of Gallery2. I was tired of all the “extra” features that gallery 2 had while none of them worked while embedded in Wordpress, and while the support for word press was there the plugins were often slow and lacked a quick and intuitive interaction. Zenphoto is a super light but easy to customize and all the features i want work great. The thumbnails are more vibrant and much sharper, i’m not sure what was wrong with Gallery2 but everything looked fuzzy.
Some things to look for are image comments, image ratings, as well as my PicLens Mod.
Zenphoto and PicLens
I have been trying to get Gallery2 to work with PicLens and realised that trying to get the simple RSS feeds to work was more effort that i wanted to apply. So i reinstalled ZenPhoto and will be using that again as soon as i integrate it into wordpress and get a theme built up for it.
But after a few minutes of trial and error i have a working RSS feed for ZenPhoto to use with PicLens.
How?
Its simple! Rename your old rss.php file to back it up, upload the new file to the root of your ZenPhoto installation.
That’s it!
For example. If you have a 100 images and your RSS is showing 50, most likely the first 50 images will not show up in PicLens, its up to you on how many items you want to display.
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PixelPost and PicLens
My friend Dan Barham had recently converted his site to use the new plugin from cooliris called PicLens, available for Mozilla here. It instantly transforms a media RSS file into a 3d wall gallery. It has also got search support for Flickr, Google, and yahoo to name a few.
I have been working on a new photo blog The Wondering Photographer that should be up as soon as i get a good stock of images ready for it. The photo blog is running on Pixelpost. I was looking at the feed code in pixelpost and was able to modify it easy enough, it doesn’t seam like any one has done this yet, at least in my searches i only found questions.
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