The drag-and-drop admin stuff that's being developed is superb. But as people keep saying, WordPress integration is the biggest (or one of the biggest) desires.
Regarding WordPress, the top page of the zenphoto site says it best: "Major plans include native WordPress integration (in many sexy ways)..."
I'm not sure what "native" means, but it sounds good. And of course "sexy" sounds good (it probably means "AJAX-y").
In my view, full "native" WordPress integration would mean a few things:
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Integrated search. You search WP blog postings and pages (and user comments?), AND ZP album/picture titles and descriptions (and user comments?). Plogger and Gallery 2 do NOT have this. Gallery 2 is considering it; Plogger apparently is not (too much work, a dev posted).
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Ability to make the ZP gallery the default page of the site. For photographers, artists, etc. doing portfolio sites who want thumbnail portrayal of their work right on top. Maybe this is done by defining a WP page that links to the ZP gallery, then using the "Static Front Page" plug-in that lets you set a page as the WP default. Or maybe there's a ZP "sexier" way (I'm all for it). This much the K2 ZP theme would presumably allow today, but that theme seems to have a significant bug in it at the moment (see the thread in this forum).
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Easy, intuitive insertion of ZP content into posts and pages. Ideally, this will involve an interface for non-tech users (i.e., not requiring copying and pasting URLs from different browser windows, etc.). Sure, insertion of random images etc. into sidebars is great, too. But if you're writing about your galleries in any way, joining text and photo content easily by a layperson is essential. Some kind of integrated posting / gallery browsing that allowed drag-drop of thumbs into text would be beautiful.
Right now I'm using the Gallery 2 plug-in (which deserves lots of praise, including for the docs), but which frustrates me for two reasons (at least): you have to paste a URL to do it (bad workflow and too technical), and you can insert only the scaled-down image size that you also use for your sidebar photos. Makes for a very boring layout. I'd want to see image size variety.
One suggestion for the wordpress support..
When I add a new gallery to my zen photo - It would be awesome if it automagically posted an entry in WP that a new gallery has been added.. some teaser text (the description of the gallery?) and a few thumbnails (random or the first few) in a row as well as a link to view the ZP entry.
Also nice would be (don't know how hard this would be) the ability for comments on the above wp entry to be added to the zp comments. On a related note.. comments about a gallery in general would be nice - not simply comments on a per image basis.
Also, there is no reason you can't use both tags and categories. Default to the category view with cats defined by the admin of the zp.. then allow viewing/sorting/adding/group by tag functionality . When viewing by cats the cat name should be large and obvious and the tag list could be a small unobtrusive list of clickable links. When viewing by tags the cat name for the image should be small and unobtrusive while the list of applied tags should be obvious.
Just my $.02
Just wanna add my voice to the "give-us-[b]Wordpress[/b]-support" group. I agree with Null and garde, that most of the zenphoto users are Wordpress-powered bloggers. In fact, it's via a blogger's post that I came to learn about Zenphoto. Cheers
There are three things I would like:
- RESTful API - would make Wordpress integration a snap
- Tags - simple labeling, searching, etc
- RSS/Atom feeds
I don't want anything except sub-folders, which I think you guys already have on the list. I purposely went with this gallery rather than the bazillion others out there because it doesn't have a bunch of features that I won't use---in fact, I went in and stripped out some, like comments and clicking to a full sized image.
Please don't add a bunch of stuff. The package is pretty close to ideal as it is.
I only really have two wishes: the first falls under WP support - have the ability to use the same templates so that the user doesn't realise the transition between WP and ZP. Secondly, it would be nice to have a way of generating all of the thumbnails at once. The latter I can live without and please don't get drawn into feature creep.
there's a lot of requests for tagging and wordpress support so i'd like to ask for something a bit different...
it's a bit of a fancy topping really: a way to choose which part of an image is used for the thumbnail. at the moment i believe the thumbnail is taken from the centre of the image. what i'd like is to have the full image shown with a translucent square the size of the thumb overlayed that is movable. the admin can then drag it around until it covers the part of the image they want to be the thumb.
that would be cool
great work by the way!
this would be nice: (AJAX upload progress meter for PHP)
I would really like a search box to search titles, descriptions and albums.
Jay