As Expected, Con Derailment
Hi Everyone, Due to our con appearance schedule (I’ll be at Otakon this weekend) as well as other site development (the new Onezumi.com redesign) it’s been a problem getting the time together to get the latest releases of the AWSOM series of plugins out the door. I have not officially released the Pixgallery 4.5.7 version yet (which has WordPress 2.6 compatibility built in) because I want to test it with a few more set ups first, but it’s generally ready to go and you can download the RC2 version if you need to upgrade. There are some exciting features coming for all of the plugins, so please be patient just a tiny bit more, thanks.
“Hidden” AWSOM Plugin Features: Creating default cache and gallery folders
The AWSOM Pixgallery image gallery plugin for WordPress is designed to be an easy way for users to get a gallery of their images loaded into their site with a minimum of work and time. One of it’s “hidden” features is the ability to go in and create default folders on your web server to hold both your thumbnail images and an initial gallery folder to hold your images. When Pixgallery is first activated it will attempt to create these folders in your WordPress uploads folder (this is the same folder that holds your images that get uploaded through the image upload function when writing posts or pages). In some cases this may not work, usually due to a permissions issue on your uploads folder or wp-content folder that prevents new files/folders from being written.
In these cases Pixgallery will detect that the folder wasn’t written and present you with options to create the folders later. On the settings/options page for Pixgallery you’ll see a link at the bottom of the page to create and switch to the default cache folder. If the folder was originally created properly there will be a statement there saying that the cache folder was already created.
On the Manage Pixgallery Galleries page you’ll see a button at the top of the page that says Create Default Gallery Folder. If this folder was created properly during plugin activation there will be a statement that the default gallery has already been created and will list the gallery path.
This ability is just one of the small hidden ways that Pixgallery has been designed to make your life as website admin easier.
AWSOM Pixgallery 4.5.7 RC2 now available
The second release candidate for AWSOM Pixgallery 4.5.7 is now available for download from the Beta release page. This release candidate has support for the new WordPress 2.6 SSL encrypted admin area.
AWSOM Pixgallery 4.5.7 RC 1 now available for Download
The release Candidate for AWSOM Pixgallery 4.5.7 is now available for download from the AWSOM Beta/Release Candidate page. I believe this version is stable and will work properly with both WordPress 2.6 and previous versions, but given the major changes that have occurred in WordPress 2.6 it’s difficult for me to test every possible variation of WordPress install and server type. In particular I would be very interested to know if this version of Pixgallery works for anyone out there who has a SSL version of WordPress 2.6 installed.
If you run into any issues please let me know by comment or by using the contact form.
Apologies for Slow PixGallery Update for WordPress 2.6
Hi everyone, I’m really sorry that the progress on updating AWSOM Pixgallery to be WordPress 2.6 compatible has been a bit slow. It turns out that the path changes that were instituted in the new version of WordPress have really required a lot of redoing of the core functions of Pixgallery to be compatible with both the new and old versions of WordPress. I’m pretty close (I think) to a beta version of the new Pixgallery release, so I hope it won’t be much longer before I can get this out to you guys.