I really just want a gallery to work WITH my WordPress blog (http://blog.thelifeofbrian.info). I've fiddled with NextGen but found it fell far short of all the hype.

I've read that WordPress integration is coming "soon" - any idea when?

Until then.... Can somebody lay it out for me, the best way to install ZenPhoto, what WordPress plugins to use (I see there are several), etc.

I would like the gallery to be at http://blog.thelifeofbrian.info/pics. So how would I do this -- install the app in that folder? How do I get the themes to match? Is any of this documented already?

Thanks... I have searched, but haven't found the answers yet.

Take a look here:
http://www.zenphoto.org/2008/01/wordpress-plugins/ and here
http://www.zenphoto.org/2008/01/hacks/#zenphoto-as-plugin
Also here is a little older tutorial:
http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2006/06/integrating-zenphoto-into-wordpress/

Be aware though the ruzee one although the best for integration will leave you with silent 404's on all you album and image pages meaning that google wont index them, this is if you have permalinks turned on.

so is there any word on how long before the real integration becomes a reality? This all sounds like a bunch of hacks...

If you mean with "real integration" to use as a wordpress plugin. Sorry, that is not planned currently.

An easy solution just to make a theme for zenphoto to match the rest of your site. This is basically how we did it on zenphoto.org.

silent 404's ? Will google not index any of the albums, and of course, what are silent 404's?

This theme should give you a good start.

http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/attachment/wiki/ZenphotoThemes/wordpress_theme.zip?format=raw

It's basically our theme we are using to display the showcase on the homepage. It's just a blank zenphoto theme that pulls in your wordpress theme around it.

Sorry I should have explained more (I was coining someone elses phrase). Basically if you use ruzees method and maybe the one above (although I can't check today) if you have permalinks on for both wordpress and zenphoto although people can see your albums and pictures without problems google cant and will throw up 404 errors. Check this by validating your xhtml for your albums and the actual picture links.

Unless aitf311's solution solves this what I'm doing at the moment is using the permalinks for wordpress for pretty links navigating the site and then turned permalinks off for zen not ideal but google will at least index your images.

Does that make any more sense?

Why don't you just take a look at our themes/showcase section on zenphoto.org and do some google tests?

I think I'll start my trying the one posted by Aitf as all the ones in the theme section weren't integrated with word press and out of the ones I checked in the showcase barely any were either. Interestingly I don't think I found a single site in the showcase with valid xhtml (I didn't go through all the sites though).

The theme I posted integrates perfectly with wordpress. You may have to change some of the id names on the divs but that's about it.

Thanks, I'll play around with it. By "real integration" I meant whatever the devs meant in their last release notes when they promised it was coming soon...

I've installed a gallery using SimpleScripts through my provider, but it will not allow me to log in to the admin site - so I've gotten nowhere with it. Waiting on support from my host on that...

The "real integration" was a priority in the past but has lost its steam in the last year or so. The integration using the methods described have sufficed for most people. The theme posted is probable the simplest solution as it's pretty much ready to go in any wordpress installation.

I found integrating ZP in WP was quite easy. I just copied the index.php from my WP theme, replaced the code in the content section and added soms items in the head section. (http://www.spoenk.nl/beeldend/fotografie)

At first I asked this same question here at the forum. Will there be a perfect integration of ZP inside WP. But now I don't want that anymore. Now I like to keep those two seperated. You never know how WP or ZP will evolve and perhaps there will come a day that you want something else than WP or ZP. Also a reason why I try to minimize the amount of plugins I use in WP and ZP, at least plugins that alter things in the database.

Or think of this: let's say you are using the images inside the ZP albums to link to from within a WP post or even place them inside your posts. Then, after some time, you decide to use another program, or ZP let's you store images some place else or whatever... Then the links will be broken.

Personally I think it's best to keep these two seperated. That's why I've chosen to not use something like NextGen.

http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/attachment/wiki/ZenphotoThemes/wordpress_theme.zip?format=raw
aitf, this was nice to find. Question though. Getting meta description and "title" for the galleries/albums does not seem possible using this method?

I'd like to weigh in here. I've been looking for a solution to my ZP images not being indexed by google for about 4 months (as it turns out - ever since I included my WP header!). I received a lot of advice about alt tags etc on this forum and the other. After I posted my 404 errors question and got Chief's reply it all started to make sense.

1. Google Webmasters shows that all of my Zp pages come back as 404.
2. When I upgraded to WP 2.6 the browser bar said 'nothing found' for all of my ZP pages.
3. Google has zero of my 2000 ZP images indexed.

So it's an issue with mod_rewrite.

As I...

a) Used Ruzee's (ZP Developer recommended) include.
b) Use WP pretty permalinks
c) Enabled ZP mod_rewrite.

... all of my ZP pages came back as errors.

So, what can we do about it? How do we make a b c consistent with each other?

Developers - we look to you for guidance here! We want to keep our headers, pretty permalinks and be included in the Google club.

What should we do? I have disabled mod_rewrite of the time being. I want to test it out. Have a look at my site if you like. Some of the links may be temporarily broken.

I'm more than willing to be a try out any thought you may have as long as it allows me to keep my theme and my header include!

http://phauxshow.com/

I personally have no idea since I never used zenphoto and wordpress that way (I made separate themes). Did you try the solution we use on zenphoto.org that aitf311 posted above? Or did you try the zenphoto google sitemap our user mightyhitter posted a while back: http://basri.my/plugins/zenphoto-google-sitemap
Here is the thread to it: http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=3252&replies=18

If zenphoto is just skinned to match my site (wordpress) I assume google indexing is not an issue here. Google does not have a problem indexing zenphoto on it's own right? The way I have zenphoto set up I don't want it to index images, but my albums, which all have a title and description in the head meta.

aitf311, Am trying the wordpress_theme but got the error saying couldn't find Sajax.php file. I'm using WP 2.6.

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/var/www/angel/zenphoto/zp-core/Sajax.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/angle/zenphoto/themes/wordpress/header.php on line 7

any help will be appreciated

I believe that was an oversight. If you remove the Sajax.php line from the header.php file it should work fine for you.