LG version 0.12.0 now available

Posted by on Nov 20, 2008 in Features, Lazyest Gallery and tagged , , , , , ,
23 Comments

Today I have uploaded version 0.12.0 to the WordPress plugin repository.
The major new feature in this version is commenting on folders and images.
Instead of having all comments together for the whole gallery, Comments will only appear with the specific folder or image. But more things have been added and lots of things have changed. I fixed some bug along the way too.
This is the list of the changes:

  • Added: Image captions in breadcrumb trail
  • Added: Breadcrumb trail in browser title
  • Added: Comments per image in Gallery
  • Added: Comments per folder in Gallery
  • Added: Edit Comments per Gallery, Folder or Image
  • Added: Option to always link shortcodes to Gallery
  • Added: Multiple Images in Random Image Widget
  • Added: JQuery Slide Show
  • Rework: Lazyest Gallery Admin Form (by Scott)
  • Rework: Removed redundant code in lazyest-thumbs.php
  • Rework: Changed slide's write caption link to go to selected image in Lazyest Image manager
  • Rework: Checkbox to Hide Folder in Folder Manager
  • Rework: In Slideview, Write Caption is always on in admin mode
  • Rework: Manage Gallery Structure now also shows Galery itself
  • Rework: Security enhancement for deleting files in Lazyest File Manager
  • Rework: Thumbnails in divs
  • Bugfix: Fixed incorrectly showing of caption when lg_use_folder_captions was FALSE
  • Bugfix: Disable Full Size Image Links
  • Bugfix: Do not show folder icon as image
  • Bugfix: Incorrect URL for images and widgets on Home page
  • Bugfix: Incorrect handling of apostrophes in Folder Caption

Prerequisites:

  • To enable comments, you have to have the line
    <?php comments_template(); ?>
    in the page template for your gallery. If you can't find this line, please check single.php for the correct syntax and position.

Caveats:

  • Copying folders by ftp will result in duplicate IDs. But in practice this is a minor problem because the images are duplicated too.
  • JQuery Slideshow does not center images that are smaller than containing div.

When you activate this version, all image IDs will be reset and IDs will be assigned to folders. This could take some time if you have many folders and images

23 Comments

  1. Thorsten
    26 November 2008

    Hi Marcel,
    thanx for the Plugin — but i’ve some troubles…
    The random widget works and shows on click the large version (but only in combination with lightbox2 plugin).
    But it is not possible to show a gallery — the path in the settings is correct, it works when i type in a complete path incl. a filename.
    I don’t have a server, it is webspace and a redirect to a subfolder — might this be the problem? I use WP 2.6.5 and a lot of plugins without any problems.
    Hope that there is a solution ;-)

  2. marcel
    26 November 2008

    Scott,
    You can always take a copy of the Trunk to start testing.
    In fact, I’m live testing 0.12.1 beta1 on this site. Do you see the slideshow in the sidebar?
    Why testing on a live site? Because it’s the only way to test the interaction with spam filters like Akismet.

  3. Scott
    26 November 2008

    Awesome – great to hear Marcel. Let me know when its ready for testing. ;)

  4. marcel
    25 November 2008

    @ hema sunder

    • yes it uses database for storing comment to image relations
    • Yes, Lazyest Gallery is intended for use with ftp in the first place
    • Depends on your server capacity
    • xml file should be readable by php only. But normally the xml file has the same permissions as your images (world read)
    • Yeah what about SE crawling?
  5. Marcel
    25 November 2008

    0.12.1 will have a slide show widget.
    And some fixes for correct counting of comments when comments are in omderation or set to spam.

  6. Scott
    25 November 2008

    Marcel – 0.12.0 is working great! Awesome job. I have my site upgraded now and I’m quite pleased with everything thus far…

    Now, if I just had a slide show widget – I would be ecstatic. :D

  7. hema sunder
    24 November 2008

    idea of the plugin is great..
    i have couple of questions

    is it uses database?
    any chance to upload from ftp?
    what about for large gallery’s like a 1000 folders?
    xml file is secured one?
    what about search engine crawling?

  8. marcel
    21 November 2008

    Difference is mainly bug fixes, and the addition of the slideshow.

  9. Costas Argyrides
    21 November 2008

    ok. its working now. thanks for the good work. what is the difference between RC1 and RC2 ?

  10. Costas Argyrides
    21 November 2008

    The comments addition is nice. I did not understand where shall ii add the line you are suggesting, at the single.php or page.php?

    Costas