This topic is a continuation of the original ZenPress thread, and is a place to discuss ZenPress by Simbul.

Please look through the original thread for answers to questions you might have before posting them here. Thanks!

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http://www.simbul.net/zenpress
ZenPress is a plugin for WordPress. It is designed to provide an easy way to include Zenphoto images into your blog posts.

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(As a side note, this is the first time we've ever closed a discussion in this forum!)

Okay I shall be the first.

Regarding the issue about urlencode raised by thinkdreams, is it related to how the links break when I try to insert a picture with spaces in its name on wordpress?

You can see how the links break on my page here. http://www.artmgs.info/students/sec1/2007/03/distorted-truths

On a separate note, it breaks on the Zenthumbs widget as well.

As far as I know, the problem should be with sub-albums (i.e. with forward slashes in the album name), not with spaces.

Simbul is correct. However, it may be more related to how the Wordpress editor is handling the URLs once they are pasted into the editor. I've seen the WP editor do strange things to text and links before it gets posted, but as far as I know, spaces shouldn't be an issue with Zenphoto.

As long as they're correctly URLencoded then they should work fine...

Ah, you've discovered a bug! It works if the .php extension is added at the end of the page link (as in the zenphoto gallery itself) but if the .php is omitted, it crops off after the first space, which is probably an error. I will test this now...

@kifo - could you open a new bug for this on the bugtracker please? I may have you test some things if you have time... thanks!

Here's what I hope is a quick configuration question. I've got zenphoto installed and working and I've got the plugin installed and activated. When I'm in the text editor writing anew article I see the 'zenpress' button so everything seems to be installed properly. Unofrtunately, when I click 'zenpress' I get a 404 error in the resulting popup window. The url that it's trying to load shows up as this:

http://foolcrow.com/winefoolery/PLUGINDIR/zenpress/tinymce/popup_zp.php?tinyMCE=0

Any ideas why PLUGINDIR is showing up where "wp-content/plugins" should be?

Thanks.

How do you sort the thumbnails by decending date, or ID since the ID is basically the same as date order? I post a lot of pictures and it's tiresome to search through the pictures.

Another thing, some of the thumbs are not being cropped in the blog posts, but if you check the zenphoto gallery all the images are cropped. So I'm assuming it has something to do with the zenpress plugin.

I have a question and I didn't find anything in the previous thread that answered it. I have the latest version of Wordpress, Zenphoto, and Zenpress. Everything is working as it should except Zenpress. In the popup window, the thumbnails are not showing. And further, the link (it's text since the thumbnail isn't showing) doesn't work as it should. The address to the photo I'm linking appears in the address bar, but the page doesn't move.

Help?

@SusieN: there seems to be a problem in the latest Wordpress release and that's making Zenpress not work in some people's Wordpress, like mine

http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=466&page=4&replies=196
the (now closed) thread has some comments about that

Me, I solved this using good ol' stable Wordpress 2.0.9 and the according Zenpress plugin
(it's in the Release archive)
http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/

Thank you very much, Mrs. G. (sorry, couldn't resist) I will look into it!

I just received a Cease&Desist mail from ZATZ Publishing, which is claiming ownership on the name "ZenPress".
I'm going to look into the issue as soon as possible. As a temporary measure, all downloads from my website are disabled.

Ahh, come on! Your ZenPress is a plugin for a blogging solution, which is given away for free. Admittedly, I am not a lawyer yet, but I am not seeing the conflict here. Hope to see you come out victorious.

How bad is that! I am no lawyer, too, but if "zenpress" is protected as a trademark name, they are probably right, even if there is no real conflict. Maybe they don't like that your plugin is first in google...

I did a quick search at the US patent and trademark office website, but could not find it neither as a patent nor as a trademark...
As far as I know there are national and international trademarks (in Germany at least), you are from Italy, right?...

Couldn't you just rename it for now? Maybe zenphotoforwordpress or something? Or like Prince did: TZPPLTFWKAZP (The zenphoto plugin for wordpress that was formerly known as zenpress) (Sorry, probably not really funny...)

ps for the next renamed zenpress plugin.. also rename the references in the source files.. and not only in case of a legal conflict ....

but also because I noticed zenpress doesn't work (if you use a customsized thumb) with the nightly builds because some functions point to the wrong i.php location (zen instead of zp-core)

a happy user who will always remember it as zenpress!

Is there any news of how the rebranding and whatnot is going? And when will there be a release that works with ZP 1.1?

I'm working on it as often as I can, but admittedly I have very little spare time these days.
In addition, as you can guess, it all piled up: the mandatory rebranding, the update to Wordpress 2.3.x and now the update to Zenphoto 1.1.
To speed up the release time I think the new version will just concentrate on compatibility with the new versions of Zenphoto and Wordpress, without adding new features. I don't know how long it's going to take, anyway.

Ok, maybe I was a little too pessimistic: it seems like the porting to Zenphoto and Wordpress' new versions went smoother than I expected.
I still need some time for testing & packaging, but all things considered version 1.3 shouldn't take long

ooh...looking forwards to the update!