I've made some changes to the Stopdesign theme. It's the theme that I liked most, but it's missing some functionality. So far I have:-
- Changed the "Gallery Archive" link on the main page to actually link to an archive page
- Added an archive page that has a dated list of all photos, plus a tag cloud for the gallery
- Added 2 custom options for the width/height of the images to put into the cropped version of the image seen on the gallery pages. (Personally my photos rarely have the object of interest in the centre of the photo, so the default cropping that occurred would often be quite boring).
- Changed all instances of printCustomAlbumThumbImage() to make use of these new options.
- Added the ability to set/view a photos rating on the image page, providing that the rating plug-in is used.
I'm still very new to zenphoto, so this is all I've been able to do so far.
I have a context diff file made against 1.2.6-rc1 which I'm happy to have incorporated into the theme if the changes are acceptable, but I don't know what to do with the changes: Post them here? Email them to someone?
You can open a ticket and attach your files there. But we of course can't guarantee that it will make it into the official theme.
Btw, you should do a compare with the official 1.2.6 or even better the nightly build (development always proceeds) to be sure as the RC1 is already outdated.
I've re-designed the archive/tags page that I originally created for this theme last week. However, I don't know what the best way is for linking to it from the main page.
The 'default' and 'example theme' themes both have an "Archive View" link, which goes to the archive page. The 'zenpage-default' theme has a "Gallery & News" link, and calls the list the "Gallery Archive".
For stopdesign the button labelled "Archive View" actually links to the index, and it even calls that page the "Archive" within the title and header text. This is what confused me.
I don't have the tools to make a button in the same style, so on my own site I've added a link called "Gallery Archive" in the Gallery Data in the bottom right as suggested in the ticket. To keep in with the rest of the gallery data, I added the total number of images as the number. That all looks fine (to me), but it's the button and index page title that seems out of sorts.
Feel free to look at http://vpas.org.uk/photos/ to see what I mean.
I'd welcome feedback on the best course of action.
Some of the changes have been incorporated (http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/ticket/1219) in the Zenphoto distribution.
I downloaded the latest http://www.zenphoto.org/files/nightly/zenphoto-2010-01-10-trunk.zip
And there is still a bug with voting system.
You have
if (function_exists('printImageRating')) printImageRating();
instead you need
if (function_exists('printRating')) { printRating(); }
Also how do I center the login box on the bottom? and do the same for categories because now it is displayed on the left side and distracts user from viewing photos.