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Kevin - Guest
11:33 pm - Apr 8, 2008
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Shack, now that i have this working, i've been able to play with it a little and have some questions.
If you put the following tags in a blog post, you get a nice working post.
[piclens-lite-link]
However, the gallery images are paginated, in my case into sets of 20. plp only displays the first page of images…only those displayed on the page at the time.
If you are looking at the default chronological view of a blog and you paginate thru the gallery and then select “View Piclens Slideshow” what you get is a show of ALL the images in all the posts in the current chronological view, which is not what you are expecting.
So, my questions would be:
Is it possible to show all the pictures of a gallery without pagination?
Is is possible to show only the pictures that “belong” to a particular post even when that post is only one of many on a page (index.php for wordpress).
thanks for any help/ideas on this. I'm not exactly sure if they are piclens questions or plp questions.
thx, k.
PS: i had a post on my blog that demonstrated this, but took it down so as not to confuse my readers.
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Kevin said:
So, my questions would be:
1. Is it possible to show all the pictures of a gallery without pagination?
2. Is is possible to show only the pictures that “belong” to a particular post even when that post is only one of many on a page (index.php for wordpress).
thanks for any help/ideas on this. I'm not exactly sure if they are piclens questions or plp questions.
Q1 is possible, but not straightforward, and I haven't implemented it. Probably, it would require plp to hook into the gallery plugin. Hopefully, NextGen Gallery will support support piclens natively in the near future and make this a moot point. At least, I know that ngg is heading in that direction.
A low-tech solution is just to turn off all pagination in the gallery.
Q2 might be possible. It probably isn't that hard for me to implement, but I don't know if PicLens can handle it. plp currently adds one feed to the webpage. To satisfy Q2, plp would have to add multiple feeds to the webpage, one for each post that is being displayed. And then PicLens would have to be smart enough to discover which of the feeds a particular image is in. I haven't tested it, so I'm not sure if it would work or not.
Right now, my hope is that plp will be obsoleted in the near future by the gallery plugins when they begin supporting piclens, so I haven't made an effort to go beyond the core of what it is now. Basically, I've taken the official piclens plugin and made it usable. But if the situation doesn't change much in the next couple of months, I'll probably take a second pass at some of these enhancements.
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Thinking about Q2 some more.
The piclens-lite link should work whether it is a single post or displayed on a page with multiple posts. I could add an option that would omit the feed for a multipage post. This would have the effect of limiting your readers to using the piclens-lite links on a multipost page, since the hover button wouldn't appear on a multipost page.
This would be relatively simple to implement and seems like it might give you the type of effect you are looking for. Let me know what you think.
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Kevin - Guest
7:47 am - Apr 9, 2008
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Shack Dougall said:
Thinking about Q2 some more.
The piclens-lite link should work whether it is a single post or displayed on a page with multiple posts. I could add an option that would omit the feed for a multipage post.
I'm not sure this is worth the effort because it is my belief that most readers would desire to see the piclens show directly from the first page (the page with multiple posts). To make them click to a single page post and then click to see the piclens show…well, i think they've moved on by now…just my opinion.
I guess i wait until NGG supports piclens 
Thinking about it as i write this: do you think this would work? Create a WP Page to display all the images in the gallery. Then create a WP Post with a link to display the plp slideshow by pasting in edited raw script like:
<a href=”javascript:toggleStartStop();PicLensLite.start({feedUrl:'http://www.mydomain.com/myWPpage/feed/mrss/'});”>Start Awesome 3D Slide Show <img height=”12″ border=”0″ align=”top” width=”16″ class=”no-mrss” alt=”PicLens” src=”http://www.mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-piclens-plus/PicLensButton.png” /></a>
As long as you get the mrss feed right, it doesn't matter where the actual content is, right?
thx, k.
PS: does cooliris follow this board? Any thoughts, cooliris?
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If I added a way to disable the feed on multipost pages, readers would still be able to click the piclens-lite links in any of the posts being displayed. So let's say that there are 4 posts and each one has a piclens-lite link at the top. I think if a reader clicked the piclens-lite link on the second post that it would open piclens on the images from the second post. And they could do that without having to actually go to the 2nd post directly.
Your idea about pasting in a raw script is kind of a variation of this and, yes, I think it should work except for one thing. You've got a page with a non-paging gallery and a post with a custom piclens-lite link. Clicking on the custom link will do what you want; it will open piclens on the whole gallery. The only wrinkle occurs when the post has images on it because those images will also have hover buttons and those hover buttons won't take you to the same place as the custom link.
To do this idea really well, plp would need to give you the option of specifying a custom feed for the post. Hmm, maybe it could grab the feed info from the custom link…
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To satisfy Q2, plp would have to add multiple feeds to the webpage, one for each post that is being displayed. And then PicLens would have to be smart enough to discover which of the feeds a particular image is in. I haven't tested it, so I'm not sure if it would work or not.
Found this page on the PicLens website. PicLens does support multiple feeds on a single page and it even has support for paged galleries. It would still be better for the gallery to implement this, but I'll think about what can be done in plp.
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Kevin,
Check out 1.0.5.10.
I think I fixed it to work exactly the way that you asked.
- if a gallery is paged and you open PicLens on an image in the second page, PicLens will show you the whole gallery now.
- if you have several posts showing and you open piclens on the second post, PicLens will only show you the images on the second post.
Try it out and let me know how it goes…
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Kevin - Guest
8:20 am - Apr 14, 2008
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Shack, works great. I've been on spring break with the family, so sorry to take so long to repost here. Goto
http://www.liveinalpharetta.com/blog/2008/04/14/pictures-of-estate-home-in-east-cherokee-the-shoals-at-arbor-creek/
to see your work in action.
Much thanks.
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argentina - Guest
2:21 am - Apr 21, 2008
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Firstly, thanks for fixing the piclens plugin so that it works with wordpress 2.5!
Our problem is that piclens just seems to be displaying the thumbnails for the wordpress auto-created galleries, rather than using the full sized images.
You can see what i'm talking about at myargentinajournal.com/journal
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks,
SJ
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Sorry about that. It doesn't seem to work with the new gallery feature of WP2.5.
I'll fix it, but I'm busy on another project for the next couple of weeks.
If you need something that works today, I'd suggest NextGen Gallery.
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