Comments on: AWSOM Plugins Troubleshooting/FAQ Guide

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:05:49 +0000

O.k. -for so long I will do the sorting with “Position in Gallery” in combination with an intelligent system of file naming.

If you would like to have a look on my gallery: http://lichtmaler.in/gallery/

By: harknell

harknell — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:12:58 +0000

Hi, for the moment sort ordering is done globally–so both images and galleries use the same system. As part of an update I hope to add per gallery sorting, so each gallery level can have it’s own option. Can’t say when this will be–I’m in the middle of some RSS design for the plugin–but I hope to add it as soon as I can.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:55:11 +0000

Thanks for your answer.

Because I got the pictures from different photographers and not all of them knew about IPTC I will do this with the Image description.

But there’s another wish: I would like to sort the images within a gallery by the default “Last File Added First” and the galleries by “Ascending Numerical Sort”. If I select the default sort order the galleries sorted that way too.

Even though in the settings it’s called “How do you want PixGallery to sort your images on the Thumbnail page” the galleries are sorted too.

Is there any chance to sort the way I would like to do.

Thanks

By: harknell

harknell — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:55:22 +0000

Hi Thomas,
To add an entirely new field would be a somewhat extensive mod. One quick way to get what you want would be to look at adding IPTC data to your images and turning that feature to on in the settings. IPTC data is what newspapers or other image catalogers use to embed artist or photographer names directly into the image’s metadata. Pixgallery can support the display of this data and it will appear below the image if the feature is turned on and the data exists.

Photoshop can write this data into a jpg file.

For the future I am considering adding “extra” fields capability, which would allow admins to define extra fields like your request. Unfortunately this isn’t going to happen very soon since my dev schedule is pretty full right now.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:55:18 +0000

First of all I want to say thank you for this great plugin.

There’s one wish. In addition to the “Custom Image Name For Display” and the “Image Caption” I would like to have a text field for the creator/photografer of an image/picture.

Would it be possible to do this and did you get an idea how.

I have some experience in PHP and MySQL but I don’t know where to start.

Thanks for any input
Thomas

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:49:49 +0000

Installed 4.6.1 pixgallery with WordPress 2.9.2 using DarkMystery theme. Set up this site as a test until it’s approved in a directory on my client’s server called “wordpress”. I can set up galleries with thumbnails though clicking on a thumb gives the error 404 message. Downloaded the “fix” though it mad all of of my pages go white after i reisnstalled it in my plugins folder. Deleted it, and went back and reinstalled 4.6.1. Used absolute linking in the settings. Deactivated all plugins except pixgallery, and also returned to default theme, though still no luck. I have also moved the images to within the awsompixgallery directory inside the uploads folder, and that does not work either. Anything i’m missing?

By: scott

scott — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:33:24 +0000

hmmm… Give personalized information to a web site constructed from warez haxors.Doesn’t sound smart

By: Bob E

Bob E — Sun, 09 May 2010 23:25:34 +0000

Thanks.

I overlooked the settings page and the documentation. I’ve been having a blast playing with the settings.

Very well done plugin.

By: harknell

harknell — Sun, 09 May 2010 21:16:26 +0000

Hi Bob,

1) you need to change the setting in the admin page for sort type. Set it to numerical sort.

2) the way pixgallery works is by embedding in a post or page. Whatever exists on that page will also appear at every point of the gallery. This is good if you want a header or footer on every page of the gallery, but isn’t if you want it to appear only on the main part of the gallery. The best way to handle that is to use the gallery caption function to place a caption for the main gallery with the image you want to show. It’ll only show when that gallery is being displayed.

By: Bob E

Bob E — Sat, 08 May 2010 19:28:22 +0000

I intstalled pixgallery 4.6.0 into WordPress 2.9.2. It works great.

I have two problems.
1. I’ve changed the “position in gallery” but they still show up in the original order.

I have a picture after the gallery in the main post. When I click on a thumbnail in the gallery, that picture shows up below the one I clicked on.