Comments on: photo gallery flux

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:46:39 +0000

I haven’t even found time yet to check out Gallery2 Thanks again, Rob!

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:27:44 +0000

Good luck, Sabrina! Although I’ve moved on from Gallery 2 to NextGen Gallery. Always in flux, I guess. You can see its galleries on my /Photos tab.

NextGen is a WordPress native plugin, and quite full-featured. It uses the same WordPress database, so it’s just a LOT easier to manage. Check it out, it might be all you need.

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:42:58 +0000

Thanks for such an informative post. I learned quite a lot from your article and I’m looking forward to trying these things out by myself. Gallery2 sounds like the thing for me. Wish me luck!

By: iPhoto to web gallery bypassing .Mac at bioneural.net

iPhoto to web gallery bypassing .Mac at bioneural.net — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:42:18 +0000

[...] There are several open-source photo galleries based on PHP and a back-end database, such as MySQL. Rob has written an informative write-up comparing Coppermine and Gallery. [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 06:51:36 +0000

Bruce, the remote is (as I understand it) just an alternate uploading mechanism. I believe it’s java-based too. It won’t help what you want to do.

You need to turn on the URL rewrite rules. Take a look at Boolean’s discussion above. Also, make sure you check out the WPG2 forums where there are whole threads on the matter.

But here’s the quick bottom line for what you want to do: make certain that you Gallery2 install directory name is different than URL rewrite rule that you ultimately want (“/photos”)

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 06:10:18 +0000

Rob, this is a great post. Shame I discovered after giving over an evening and half the night to do my own exploration!

I have Gallery 2.1.1 installed with the WPG2 plugin activated and function. I want to embed some albumns at http://www.bioneural.net/photos/ — as you have at http://www.electrolund.com/gallery/. However, so far I can only create a link to http://www.bioneural.net/wp-gallery2.php. So how did you manage this?

Also, what theme ar you using? Stuart at http://craggiemore.com put me onto the siriux theme which so far seems the most compatible with my layout (most themes break out of the page container) although my footer still ends up mid page!

Thirdly, I’ve installed the iPhoto2Gallery plugin for use with iLife 06, and installed the “Remote” module, and although I’m sure of my Gallery URL (as above; I also tried http://www.bioneural.net/gallery2/main.php) I just get a “No gallery found at URL” error. Have you experienced this? On the support boards the only advice is to install the remote module, which I’ve done

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:06:14 +0000

I’ve played with both gallery and cpg. I wound up with cpg because of what seemed to be better permission control. I have a personal family site and for the life of me I could not find a way to make my gallery private (login in only). My only isse now is being frustrated with coppermine’s theme layout. I also use a modified version of blix and would love to intergrate my wp theme with my photo gallery. Gallery just seemed to have alot less control and not as admin friendly as cpg. If i’m wrong, I would love for somone to show me how.

By: boolean

boolean — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 04:30:59 +0000

I did. Ultimately it was because gallery2′s default URL structure was conflcting with WordPress’. I made the patterns a little more specific and that cleared it up.

Thanks for all your help! I’m going to document the process (the pain) so hopefully others won’t waste a day trying to get their plugin working.

Now that it is working though, it’s very slick. The iPhotoToGallery plugin is awesome.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:12:30 +0000

Yep, that’s the page. There’s a lot of good help at those forums too! Hmm, did you make sure you validate your settings in the WPG2 plugin options?

By: boolean

boolean — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:06:12 +0000

hm. I wonder if there’s anyway to get back to a clean state with this thing?

I’m logged into the embedded gallery already but it’s throwing an error when I try to access the admin options. I’m trying to work through it with help from this page:

Plug-in_Gallery2_URL_Rewrites