0.16.0 is ready!

The stable version 0.16.0 is ready for download.
Please read my previous post about the new features in this release.

updates:

  • Shawna reported a bug in the Settings screen. That has been fixed in 0.16.0.1
  • Alireza Fattahi reported a bug in folder pagination. That has been fixed in 0.16.0.2
  • The error of function __contruct() not found has been fixed in 0.16.0.3
  • If the slideshow on your site is no longer working, please read my post Dear Theme Developers and check the file footer.php in your theme.
  • The problem with the lg_image shortcode has been solved in version 0.16.0.4

I’ll update the user guide as soon as possible.

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Lazyest Gallery 0.16.0 release candidate

Lazyest Gallery 0.1.6.0 release candidate is now ready for download on the WordPress plugin site. I have had a lot of responses on the beta release, helping me to create a stable release. Some users even dared to install the beta version on a live website.
You need to have WordPress 2.9.x for Lazyest Gallery.
The stable 0.16.0 is expected to be released coming week. After that, I am going to start working on version 1.0, which will be ready for WordPress 3.0.

UPDATE:
I have thrown in another release candidate.  The closing div error and the plugin admin page formatting error are tackled. I couldn’t find any problems on activating the plugin on my sites.

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Testers needed for Lazyest Gallery 0.16.0

Lazyest Gallery 0.1.6.0 is almost finished. It took a while because the entire plugin is encoded again. This version includes the long awaited pretty permalinks for the gallery. Folders and photos will now appear as subpages of the gallery. Please note that it is not possible to use WordPress subpages of the gallery page.

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Dear Theme Developers

Dear theme developers, your themes are really a beautiful piece of art. It is also wonderful to see how a web site can be improved by installing a new theme. However, please do not forget that your theme is also part of a larger piece of software called WordPress. So do not forget to use the WordPress template tags. Too often users complain that Lazyest Gallery does not work, simply because one or more template tags do not exist. So before you publish a theme, please check if

  • <?php wp_head(); ?> is present just before the </head> tag;
  • <?php wp_footer(); ?> is present just before the </body> tag;
  • <?php comments_template(); ?> is present preferably in single.php and page.php;
  • <?php comment_id_fields(); ?> is present in comments.php
  • <?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?> is present in comments.php

It is not too difficult to include these template tags, but it would make life much easier for us and other plugin developers.

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Lazyest Gallery 0.15.6

Kenold Beauplan pointed me to a bug in the Lazyest Gallery admin screen. This bug only occurs after a clean install of Lazyest Gallery. If this issue affects you, please give 0.15.6 a try. Download 0.15.6 or upgrade automatically from the Plugins menu in your blog’s admin area. Cole found some more bugs. They have been fixed and the new version, which will be available shortly, is 0.15.6.1

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How to display your random images in rows.

Some Lazyest Gallery users asked me if it is possible to display random images in rows and columns. The answer is yes! and it’s quite easy. Just some simple css rules should do the trick.
First step is to think about how many image columns you want to display. The images together should fit in the sidebar. The thumbnail you’ve set in Lazyest Gallery settings could be too large, so you have to set the size of your random image thumbnail in your theme style sheet.
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Apostrophe revisited

Artem Russakovskii  pointed me to an error which may occur in file names and folder names. When a file name contains apostrophes, or other characters not supported in an url, they were not correctly decoded, resulting in a Lazyest Gallery error. If you run into this error, or if you are planning to use file names with apostrophes, please update the Lazyest Gallery plugin to version 0.15.5. About a year ago, apostrophes in captions made Lazyest Gallery crash because of errors reading the xml files. Although I corrected that, I didn’t envision tat anyone would consider using apostrophes in file names or folder names.
Please mind, if you create new folders in the Lazyest Gallery file manager, you cannot use apostrophes.

I have added a button on the Lazyest Gallery settings page to generate missing tumbs and slides. This will speed up loading the gallery page for your visitors.

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