Welcome to my latest wordpress plugin. Why another plugin for photos? (It is already so difficult trying the different types of gallery and deciding which to use)
Out of frustration for an easy and quick way to insert and display pictures in posts (without crudely hacking Exhibit or PhotoPress plugin).
Out of some influence by userfriendness/competition shown in PhotoMail(yahoo), MSN Spaces(microsoft), Hello to Blogger(google) on how you could share ur photos easily.
Out of some inspiration by some gallery plugins - Exhibit, PhotoPress.
This plugin is not created for setting up a gallery. It comes from my need for inserting photos into my post quickly and simply in the least amount of steps. I feel that plugins I tried does not satisfy what I needed. People who have storylines with photos would like this plugin.
So I create and name my plugin “PhotoZip” which means “Publish a folder of photos, simply by zipping them up and uploading”. Look at my test post and example on how to use PhotoZip.(you can treat this as a tutorial too)
So PhotoZip becomes a quick but dirty way which would work for me perhaps others who don’t want the same with trouble me. Quick, because it is tested on my slow server (Pii300Mhz). thumbnails generate in the fastest time, but with less quality.
More warnings… Needs no zip support in apache/php but Requires “un-safe-mode” or allowed safe execution dir for unzip.
Status now:
Uses QuickTags
Tested with ChenPress.
Limited features, Low security.
INSTRUCTIONS
Unzip the photozip folder.
Check variables - $pz_popup_link in photozip.php,
$pz_photofolder,$pz_thumbs_med_maxwidth,$pz_thumbs_med_maxheight in manager.php (make sure your script has write access to $pz_photofolder)
Upload folder into your plugin directory.
Activate plugin.
Usage.
1. Create/Edit Post, click PhotoZip button. 2. Upload Zip file of your images. 3. Click insert.
Future?
Picasa xml support.
FCKEditor plugin?
Over writing into existing directory support..
This as a feature in perhaps photopress or exhibit, other plugins or even wordpress.
Nicer appearance
Delete feature
Selection of photos and method to be inserted
In short, PhotoZip is a quick and dirty method for uploading images into my post. Use and try at your own risk! However, I love to hear any comments you have.
Download it now.
version 0.2
version 0.3
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