Realization of a photoblog (themes and plugins)

tuxut · 2015-06-02 09:04:39

Hi community.

I want to realize a photoblog with minimalist style to set the focus on my pictures.
Accordingly there is a need for a useful textpattern theme and perhaps some suggestions for various photo plug-ins to increase functionality like switching full screen mode, navigation, rating, etc…

Thanx for your support!

Bloke · 2015-06-02 09:42:17

Hi, and welcome back.

I think Txp Minima Photoblog is still current and might serve as a basis. Jonathan would be able to tell you more.

As for plugins, I’d say a minimum would be a good image upload plugin, such as abl_droploader for dragging and dropping images into articles (assuming you’re planning on having one article housing a specific image or gallery of images). Presumably you’ll be doing editing / cropping and such outside of Textpattern.

The core’s images tag will be your best friend when setting up the Page template(s) and it can be massaged to do pretty much any kind of lightbox / image viewer effect you wish. Just choose one you like from the myriad available on the web — there are loads of jQuery ones that are pretty simple to set up — and customise your images form/container to suit.

Intra-image (inside an article) navigation is usually handled by the lightbox/viewer plugin you chose. Navigating between articles can be done with built-in tags or etc_pagination for a bit of flair.

You might also like to consider smd_tags which will allow you to tag your images in creative ways and allow visitors to filter them by tag to find what they like. It all depends on your vision for the site.

Ratings, I’m not so sure about. There are rating plugins like yab_review_rating, but it only rates articles so you’d be restricted to having one article per image if you wanted to simulate rating an image.

If you’re not going to use articles at all, your options are more limited and you may have to roll things a little more by hand. But we’re here to help out, so fire away with any questions and we’ll do what we can.

bici · 2015-06-02 15:37:43

Bloke wrote #291252:

I think Txp Minima Photoblog is still current and might serve as a basis. Jonathan would be able to tell you more.

cool… wasn’t aware of it. Jonathan can it easily be made Responsive?

jstubbs · 2015-06-03 00:14:19

I’d forgotten about it actually….yes very easy to make responsive, just plop in Foundation or Bootstrap and make a few tweaks, should be good to go. I haven’t looked at this template for years so probably needs some attention.

GugUser · 2015-06-03 04:56:47

jstubbs wrote #291262:

(…) so probably needs some attention.

With respect to the applied plugins too.

Nick-Belane · 2015-06-03 11:27:31

Two years ago I fiddled around…

http://galerie.dommain.de

It’s a mix of abl_droploader (for dragging and dropping images, as Bloke said) and http://galleria.io
Perhaps it works for you, if you update the plugins and extend it with Blokes suggestions.

Last edited by Nick-Belane (2015-06-03 11:31:21)

Bloke · 2015-06-03 19:13:20

Nick-Belane wrote #291280:

Two years ago I fiddled around

Wow, that’s a clean approach. Super simple, and super focused. Fast, too, and the full-screen option is a nice touch. Is that part of Galleria?

Nick-Belane · 2015-06-03 20:32:16

Is that part of Galleria?

Yes, this is the original free-template from Galleria with several options:
http://galleria.io/themes/classic/

Plus play and fullscreen – 2 Icons and a little JS

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