Hi, just have two great wishes (for now )
1- Wordpress plugin, make a pluging for WP so we all can use this great program with ease!
2- Categories, I for one would realy like categories, so I can put some pics under Family etc. I would like something like this:
http://www.iblog.dk/photo/ (this is a great excample, the cats are in black text)
Wishing................
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Would tags be better than categories? I'm trying to decide between the two...
I generally like tags better, because you still get all the organization of the folder structure but you can also view single tags, multiple tags at once, subtractions of tags, etc. It opens up a lot of options.
The way I'll do it is probably to have custom "Groups" - I'll let you tag photos with arbitrary tags (just like flickr (I seem to say that a lot)) and then make "pseudo-albums" based on any criteria - like tags, date taken, camera used, etc. It could be cool.
And regarding a wordpress plugin, you should really think about what that means. Just saying "wordpress plugin" sounds great, but I'm looking for concrete examples of what it might actually do.
The things I've thought of so far are:
- [b]Insert image[/b] from zenphoto on the WP post page
- [b]Recent images bloglet[/b] as a WP function to display n most recent images.
That's about all I can think of. Please tell me what you were thinking by a plugin!
I would also like to add to the wishlist
- Download Full Size Image Function
- Search
- Album Hit Counter
- Image Hit Counter
- Image Vote
- Top Images [visited, voted, downloaded, rated, commented]
- Latest Albums added to the gallery
- Shorter display of links between albums. Should be something like this (below)
prev ... 2 3 4 5 6 ... next
4 - being the current album page being viewed...
I think these are going to be available in ZP 1.0
- Sorting for Albums and Images [name, size, date]
- Tag or Categories, and unlimited subcategories [ablums within album]
Additional to the WP-Plugin, these are the things I think (my opinion) will be useful.
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Able to insert photos from ZP into WP Post (as you trisweb stated)
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Able to display latest albums added to the gallery within 7 days [sort by date and time].
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Able to display random image on WP
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and It would be super cool if we could some how edit Albums, comments, or what's not in WP Admin without the need to install ZP and WP in the same database.
vsnguyen, I think if you want all that stuff (the hit counters, top images, image voting) you should probably go with one of the multitude of other open source solutions like coppermine gallery. Adding all of those into Zenphoto would be counter-productive to what I think is the initial reasoning for this piece of software. Adding all those features would cause zenphoto to become bloated and lose it's niche non-bloated market. I, however, do think that adding in a "plugin" function would be a neat thing for Zenphoto, this way the base package is still bare and slim (the way I like it) but others would be able to create plugins that people such as yourself could download to achieve the "extra" stuff.
I could be way off on my assumptions but reading Tristans explanation of why he built Zenphoto fits what I said.
Hi,
It should stay plain and simple, no counters adn stuff.
Cats or tags..
Well I have little experience with tags and like cats more. Maybe an install/admin option like: use tags or use cats. I like the program simple and cats are simpel, you just put the fotos of your dog in "dog" in the cat home and of your bird in "bird" also in the cat home etc. Just like the link I gave (see first post).
About the wp-plugin option:
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An album page (duh), you can edit this page just like you can edit blog items (so from admin and via an edit link) (so add phote description add new photo etc)
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Use pics from the album in your blog (this will be available automaticly, because you can search an image to add it in wp already) or add a link called: add image from gallery
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The album page is skin/ template compatible, so it uses the wp template/css files(s)
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Izi installation via the plugin page in wp
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Add/ create cats via admin
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More admin: set all options etc in the admin page, the weather plugin has this too, its very nicely done. I can give you a dl link to it so you can try it.
I think it would give this great program a big boost with wp users
Surely tags can act like categories as well as tags but categories can only be categories.
Ideally a combination of the two: a top level tag, acting as kind of category heading, and then sublevel tags to enable keyword searching of large collections?
I'm kind of excited about tags at the moment, and would like to go a step further and have a tag cloud as well..
S
Looks like Plogger has the plugin we want in zenphoto! "Right now you can embed the whole Plogger into a Wordpress page by entering the quicktag." http://dev.plogger.org/wiki/WordPressPlugin We need a ZenPhotoWP plugin ASAP! My buddy threw this in my face when telling him about ZP. We are both abandoning Coppermine. Just kidding about the ASAP...just caught up in the moment.
I have to agree with what tuds89 said! A way to delete a photo would be very helpful, as you have to manually remove both the actual photo and all its cached counterparts.
An automated way to rebuild the cache could also be useful - for example during a site redesign when you change the image sizes.
I'd like EXIF data to be made available as well, but I think that's already in the pipeline.
A plugin system sounds perfect for ZenPhoto - I really appreciate the simple nature of the base install, but can see several uses that people would like to have - like voting - which I don't personally want in my photoblog.
Just regarding the philosophy of simplicity... I think there are ways to add the features we normally associate with "bloat" in a non-bloated way. So hit counting, image ratings, etc are not out of the question, just slightly less desirable.
Trust that I will use my discretion and that I will always keep it simple and clean .
This list is great, lots of good ideas and thoughts. Keep it coming! Thanks.
If people want to know how many times their albums or photos have been visited, use a stat tracker on the backend. I use Mint and have it watch each of my albums plus the Download Counter Pepper watches the individual pictures. Most hosting companies provide some sort of stats for you that would show you all this without bloating out such a great program.
As far as a WordPress plugin, it would be nice to be able to display random images with a function call. More than that, it would be nice to use random images as the album thumbnails. If it doesn't add to much to the code.
Another creat request, cropping images online!
See:
http://php.amnuts.com/demos/crop-canvas/interactive.php, this script is downloadable and free. Maybe nice to use?
Just a thought...
As far as all these thoughts and feature requests.. And I dont know your philisophy implemented in this programming. How hard would it be to make all these features enabled/disabled via a control panel and/or make some sort of plugin architecture for these features. This would enable other people to write plugins for it while you can still keep it simple which is what makes this photo album so special.
Re: Chilifrei64
If I add features, I'll add them in a way that fits perfectly into the existing framework, does not bloat, and remains simple and easy to use. A control panel controlling features being "on or off" just complicates, especially in integrating different combinations of features. Better to design everything together from the start.
In short: fear not, I know what I'm doing.