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Lazyest Gallery 1.0 is feature ready. Some exciting new functions have been added compared to version 0.16.x

• Flash uploader for images
• Move and copy images between folders without losing captions, descriptions or comments
• Simply move images to top of bottom of a list with many images
• More HTML code allowed in descriptions (a, br, strong, em );
• Image and folder dates are preserved and do no longer change when the file system date changes
• Lazyest Gallery can be included in WordPress search results
• Sort automatically ascending or descending by date, filename, caption or description
• A drag handle has been added to the table rows for manually sorting

Please download and test this version and tell me about your experiences

Finally, Lazyest Gallery 1.0 reached beta stage. The file manager now includes the long awaited Flash uploader is now available in the Lazyest Gallery File Manager. Please try it and write a comment below of it works on your site or not. The asynchronous thumbnail creation is now javascript driven. It is not as fast as you might expect but it can handle hunderds of new thumbs, something that would create errors on the server if you would try to create them ‘on the fly’. Watch this blogs for more developments on Lazyest Gallery 1.0. Download lazyest-gallery.1.0-beta1 from the WordPress Plugin Directory.

The asynchronuos thumbnail creation introduced in version 0.16.5 created a lot of troubles on some servers. When a user uploaded many images by ftp, the server got bombarded by many requests for thumbnails. This could, in some cases, result in a very high memory usage, internal errors and wrongly created all black thumbnails or even no thumbnails at all.
In version 0.16.7, you will have an option to create cached thumbnails after the gallery page has loaded in the browser. By default this option is off.
Check this only if you are sure your server can handle the extra load.

For Lazyest Gallery 0.16.5, I made some small changes in the way (cached) thumbnails are created. In previous versions, all thumbnails were being created at the server while computing the code for this page. On galleries with many new images, this could mean long download times or even blank pages because of  a PHP time out. Now, all images cached or uncached will be created asynchronously after the page has loaded in your browser. This will improve the total loading time of your gallery dramatically.

Version 0.16.5 als contains bug fixes to display folder and image captions in the broswer title bar. Thanks to davidddn.

When you experience a “white screen of death” like discussed below, you need to update to version 0.16.6.

Many users found a bug in the Lazyest Gallery comment system. After a user posted a comment on a folder or an image, Lazyest Gallery didn’t come back to the originating page. This bug has been fixed in version 0.16.4
The Lazyest Gallery edit screen has been tweaked so it now also shows the number of images in sub folders.

In WordPress 3.0,  the thumbnail gallery paging fails. Please download version 0.16.3 when your blog is running on WordPress 3.0.
In 0.16.3, it is also possible to have HTML code like links in the folder and image captions. The caption no longer links to the image (slide) page.

Lazyest Gallery is NOT compatible with WordPress 3.0 Multisite

A bug in the Lazyest Gallery Admin screen prevented the Gallery edit permissions to be updated correctly. Only after refreshing the page, you could open the Folder screen to manage your images. Another bug intervered with the Images table sorting capability. Clicking on the table header did not sort the images.

Update
Version 0.16.2.1 fixes another sorting bug for subfolders.
Downlaod 0.16.2.1