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#1 2005-09-23 23:06:49
- the_new_guy
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Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
I’ve tried a few, none are very good if you have many categories of images. Am I missing something? Is there no quality gallery plugin for Textpattern yet? Thanks, I’m really hoping to find a great gallery link.
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Re: Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
Depends what you are doing with it.
Standalone galleries are probably a better idea if you have to manage a large number of photos, such as Yapig or Plogger:http://www.plogger.org
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Re: Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
Try rss_thumbpop as gallery and use aba_image_import to handle the upload of the images.
There is a tutorial how to create a gallery:
English version – Setting up a thumbnail-gallery
German version – Eine Thumbnail-Galerie umsetzen
Last edited by Skubidu (2005-09-24 07:59:28)
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Re: Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
Do you know flickr?
It’s a service to upload your pictures, and many bloggers are using it. The possibility to organize your photos in sets (=categories / albums) are amazing and very comfortable.
Plus, there are many batch-uploading GUI-Tools for Linux/Mac/Windows.
I’ve created a plugin that integrates flickr into txp. See demo and forum thread. The demo is not very beautiful, but shows what can be done. You can customise everything with textpattern forms.
In my opinion this is the most comfortable option if you prefer an integrated gallery instead of a standalone one.
Last edited by larf (2005-10-20 08:43:21)
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#5 2005-09-24 11:03:18
- alexandra
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Re: Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
There is a great php script out by Kai Horlbeck
Get the version 2.3.2 (aktuell) and try it out.
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Re: Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
There’s folderblog and photostack, too.
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#7 2005-09-25 00:44:14
- barnettgs
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Re: Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
I would love to start on them but their tutorial is so unhelpful. I have tried and failed few times!
>There is a tutorial how to create a gallery:
>English version – Setting up a thumbnail-gallery
>German version – Eine Thumbnail-Galerie umsetzen
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#8 2005-09-25 06:06:42
- Niconemo
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Re: Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
> barnettgs wrote:
> I would love to start on them but their tutorial is so unhelpful. I have tried and failed few times!
It’s hard to be simpliest as this tutorials but it assume you know very well textpattern before you use it. Attention with the words “section”, “page”, “form”… : they have a very special meaning in textpattern. You must know how to use them (and what they represent) before going further.
On which point do you fail ?
Last edited by Niconemo (2005-09-25 06:08:34)
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#9 2005-09-25 06:14:02
- Niconemo
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Re: Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
> larf wrote:
> Do you know flickr?
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> I’ve created a plugin that integrates flickr into txp. See demo and forum thread
Very interesting ! :) I was afraid that the integration could be not complete with txp… but it is. The visitor just see a gallery in txp layouts and it’s very customisable. Great plugin, well documented. Good job !
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Re: Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
I would love to start on them but their tutorial is so unhelpful. I have tried and failed few times!
I’m sorry, this tutorial is for advanced users. You have to be very familiar with textpattern and textpatterns way to handle things.
Tell us what you did and what didn’t work.
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#11 2005-09-25 09:45:19
- barnettgs
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Re: Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
I have only started using textpattern yesterday and getting hang of it.
In the tutorial, it says put in first code in ‘that page’ – what page? Where?…
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#12 2005-09-25 10:08:46
- alexandra
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Re: Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
barnettgs,
you should learn a bit about TXP in the first place :). As with every software you have to manage a bit of a learning curve. Don´t give up. Just play around with TXP, read some tutorials and consider it rather fun than “a great problem”.
Read: TXP Semantic Model
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