Testing Lazyest Gallery on WordPress 3.1

Posted by: on Dec 27, 2010 in Lazyest Gallery, Wordpress | No Comments
Testing Lazyest Gallery on WordPress 3.1

WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate 1 is now available. I had to make some small changes to the Lazyest Gallery 1.0 Comments screens to make it fully compatible. This compatible version will be released as 1.0.17.
Developing Lazyest Gallery 1.1 will take a bit longer. Some functions changed during the development of WordPress 3.1, and I have to rewrite parts of the new gallery authorization rules. I expect to finish Lazyest Gallery 1.1 sometime in January 2011.

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Dear PHP 4 users

Posted by: on Oct 17, 2010 in Bug Fix, Lazyest Gallery | No Comments

Dear PHP4 users,

Since version 1.0, Lazyest Gallery decodes the caption and description text according to the character set used by your blog. However, a bug in  PHP4  issues a warning like: Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /home/myserver/wp-content/plugins/lazyest-gallery/inc/functions.php on line 140.
As you probably know, PHP version 4 is not supported anymore since the end of 2008. Please upgrade to PHP version 5 as soon as possible. If your hosting company doesn't support an upgrade to PHP 5, maybe it's time to look for another.

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Running Lazyest Gallery on WordPress 3.0

Posted by: on Jun 21, 2010 in Lazyest Gallery | 7 Comments

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

Fixing bugs in 0.16

Posted by: on Mar 26, 2010 in Bug Fix, Lazyest Gallery | 11 Comments

Version 0.16.1 fixes a lot of bugs users have reported for Lazyest Gallery 0.16.0.

  • Bug fix for Slideshow stops working
  • Bug fix for Filemanager tab is not visible
  • Bug fix for Incorrect image count when you have folder icons
  • Bug fix for Error messages for opendir()
  • Bug fix for incorrect Slide Show link
  • Bug fix for editing and saving roles
  • Rework: The new folder input box for the Gallery root is back in place

Also, Lazyest Gallery permalinks are disabled when index.php is in permalink structure.
Attention! The Lazyest Gallery Menu is now at the bottom of the WP Admin sidebar

If this version still doesn't seem to work on your server, please add your remarks below, including WP version, PHP version, Server Configuration.

Download your copy from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lazyest-gallery/download/

0.16.0 is ready!

Posted by: on Mar 2, 2010 in Lazyest Gallery | 69 Comments

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
  • version 0.16.0.5 is PHP4 compatible

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

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Lazyest Gallery 0.16.0 release candidate

Posted by: on Feb 17, 2010 in Beta, Lazyest Gallery | 15 Comments

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.

Dear Theme Developers

Posted by: on Jan 25, 2010 in Lazyest Gallery | 2 Comments

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.

PHP 5.3 compatibility

Posted by: on Dec 15, 2009 in Lazyest Gallery | No Comments

I have replaced deprecated functions in the lazyest-gallery php code by the right functions to avoid error messages in PHP 5.3. If you run into problems after installing PHP 5.3 or higher, please install Lazyest Gallery 0.15.2

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