Wordpress 2.0 Photo Blogger Plugin
I love wordpress, but if you want to use wordpress as photo blogging software, it is somewhat lacking. Especially if you want it to be quick, easy, and something my wife can do. I have seen a few people tackle photos in different ways, but what I was looking for didn’t seem to exist.
My photo blogger plugin allows you to center a post around an image. You begin the post by uploading an image. The system will keep the full quality image, and will also downsample an image for display. The downsampled image is resized to fit completely within independent maximum width and height specifications which are configurable.
A post is automatically created for you with the image attached and the display image placed inline complete with the code necessary to allow users to click the image and see when it was taken, and download or view the full quality version of it.
You can edit the post in the regular wordpress editor to add any extra text etc.
In the future, I expect to add the ability to show a “gallery” or something like that in the Categories list which will find all images and list the thumbnails and post titles.
The plugin is available for download here: wf-blogphoto.php.txt [warrenfalk.com]
If you’re new to wordpress plugins, simply download it, remove the .txt from the end and place in your wp-content/plugins folder.
Am using your plug in on my testing site right now. I am new to Word Press.
I can put the images in place but for some reason the link to the larger/original image is broken.
Using view source I located the link in the code for the page and tested it so I konw the image is getting moved to the right loacation and is available.
Thanks
There seems to be a bug when the picture doesn’t contain a date in exif details. I think I’ve fixed it, you can now redownload version 1.0.1. Let me know if that doesn’t work.
Hi, is jpeg supported format or am I missing some library from my Wordpress installation (Linux) ?
Cheers,
Markus
Jpeg is supported. In fact, that’s all I’ve tested (though gif and png should work). If you are having problems with it, you might need to make sure the graphics library support for php has been built and loaded. If you go to http://www.warrenfalk.com/phpinfo.php and scroll down to the “gd” section you can see what support I have in mine. The phpinfo.php code is the standard phpinfo() call as follows:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>If you don’t have it and you don’t host your own php, you are just out of luck. But usually hosts that support php support most of the php libraries out there.
How silly of me :-) Did not have even php gd installed… too tired at the moment. Cheers and thanks anyway !
Markus
Thank you for the great plugin! Nice and streamlined. Photoblogging issues have been my main gripe since I started using wordpress. I used to use Blogger.com which has Hello/Picasa to make it very easy to post photos…however wordpress is hard to deal with photos. Your plugin really helps…and I’ve been looking far and wide for something like this.
One suggestion. Maybe you can make an option whether to give the dialog box or not when you click on a picture. Some people might prefer to have it default to viewing the image.
Thanks…
Stay tuned. I’m going to create a version 2.0 soon which allows uploading multiple images to a single post, and I’ll add your feature also while I’m at it.
Awesome…! Do you have a mailing list so I can stay informed on updates?
Hi there… still hoping you might post your next version of the photoblogger. I keep checking every day or so…in hopes that you have worked on it. Thanks!
Sorry, been busy on some other projects recently. I do plan to get to this in the next week or so. I don’t have any mailing list, but I will let everyone who has expressed interest know when I have a new version.
Thanks for the update Warren. One other improvement which I think would be very helpfull is an option to allow for different photo/image quality. I have noticed that the thumbnail/resized version of the image generally isn’t very good quality. The original images are high quality… but as soon as it is resized to about 500pix wide…it looks pretty bad. The default JPG quality setting must be pretty low. It would be great to have an option to change this value from 1-100.
Another improvement would be to have an interface within the blog post to choose different photo sizes (small, medium, large, custom) and be able to at the time of upload choose a size. Sometimes in blog posts I post small images…and sometimes larger along with text. Like on Blogger.com you can select a few images to upload and they will all go into your current blog post. Wordpress really lacks photo/upload/resize control and your plugin is a HUGE help in the right direction!
Thank you!
Hi Warren. This looks like a great little plugin, something I wish was built into WP to start with. I’ve installed it in JD-Wordpress, which is a hack (sort-of) that allows WP to run inside of Joomla. I know this is an unusual installation, so it’s not too surprising that it isn’t working! The admin stuff seems to work fine, but when I actually try to upload a photo, I get a “Direct Access to this location is not allowed.” If you have any thoughts on what might be causing that, I’d appreciate it. Where exactly does wf-blogphoto want to upload the photos? Perhaps it’s a permissions thing.
Thanks again for your hard work!
Dave
That probably is a permissions thing. The plugin uses wordpress’s own uploading code to do some of the uploading, so if uploading works in wordpress, it should work with the plugin. I believe it puts it in the uploads directory under year and month by default.
thanks for this plugin, it’s great- will be using it soon on http://www.bravapropertiesdirect.com :)
Hi again Warren, I use your plugin almost every day and can’t live without it. I have been checking frequently on your blog in hopes that you might have made some of the improvements that we emailed about earlier. I know you are really busy…but after going through the script and attempting to figure out how to make a tweak (and not having a clue) I hope you can help.
My main (and only) gripe with the plugin is that when you click on the image it gives you some link options. I have problems frequently where after adding text with the photo…all the text becomes a “link” and shows the “download/view” options. It’s quite a pain to fix when this happens.
I am hoping that if you won’t have time to implement an updated “official” version of the plugin, that you might have a few minutes to send me a copy of the tweaked script so that posted images just have basic html (without the javascript stuff. Just plain old.
Hoping this won’t be too much trouble. I’ll be extremely gratefull :)
What I want to do on my blog, is every few hours take the oldest post and move it to the
front of the queue, all automatically. Anyone know if there is a plugin that can do this or
a simple way to set up another plugin to do this (use my own feed perhaps)?
Thanks.
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