Description

This plugin is designed to easily manage and display your photo albums and slideshows within your WordPress site.

• You can create various albums that contain photos as well as sub albums at the same time.
• There is no limitation to the number of albums and photos.
• There is no limitation to the nesting depth of sub-albums.
• You have full control over the display sizes of the photos.
• You can specify the way the albums are ordered.
• You can specify the way the photos are ordered within the albums, both on a system-wide as well as an per album basis.
• The visitor of your site can run a slideshow from the photos in an album by a single mouseclick.
• The visitor can see an overview of thumbnail images of the photos in album.
• The visitor can browse through the photos in each album you decide to publish.
• You can add a Photo of the day Sidebar Widget that displays a photo which can be changed every hour, day or week.
• You can add a Search Sidebar Widget which enables the visitors to search albums and photos for certain words in names and descriptions.
• You can enable a rating system and a supporting Top Ten Photos Sidebar Widget that can hold a configurable number of high rated photos.
• You can enable a comment system that allows visitors to enter comments on individual photos.
• Apart from the full-size slideshows you can add a Sidebar Widget that displays a mini slideshow.
• There is a General Purpose widget that is a text widget wherein you can use wppa+ script commands.
• Almost all appearance settings can be done in the settings admin page. No php, html or css knowledge is required to customize the appearence of the photo display.
• International language support for static text: Currently included foreign languages files: Dutch, Japanese, French(outdated), Spanish, German.
• Inrernational language support for dynamic text: Album and photo names and descriptions fully support the qTranslate multilanguage rules and have separate edit fields for all qTranslate activated languages.
• Suports lightbox.

Plugin Admin Features:

You can find the plugin admin section under Menu Photo Albums on the admin screen.

• Photo Albums: Create and manage Albums.
• Upload photos: To upload photos to an album you created.
• Import photos: To bulk import photos to an album that are previously been ftp’d.
• Settings: To control the various settings to customize your needs.
• Sidebar Widget: To specify the behaviour for an optional sidebar widget.
• Help & Info: Much information about how to…

Installation

Upgrade notice

This version is: Major rev# 4, Minor rev# 0, Fix rev# 9, Hotfix rev# 000. If you are upgrading from a previous Major or Minor version, note that: * If you modified wppa_theme.php and/or wppa_style.css, you will have to use the newly supplied versions. The previous versions are NOT compatible. * If you set the userlevel to anything else than ‘administrator’ you may have to set it again. Note that changing the userlevel can be done by the administrator only! * You may have to activate the sidebar widget again.

Standard installation when not from the wp plugins page

• Unzip and upload the wppa plugin folder to wp-content/plugins/
• Make sure that the folder wp-content/uploads/ exists and is writable by the server (CHMOD 755)
• Activate the plugin in WP Admin -> Plugins.
• If, after installation, you are unable to upload photos, check the existance and rights (CHMOD 755) of the folders wp-content/uploads/wppa/ and wp-content/uploads/wppa/thumbs/. In rare cases you will need to create them manually.
• If you upgraded from WP Photo Album (without plus) and you had copied wppa_theme.php and/or wppa_style.css to your theme directory, you must remove them or replace them with the newly supplied versions.

Faq

How does the search widget work?

• A space between words means AND, a comma between words means OR. Example: search for ‘one two, three four, five’ gives a result when either ‘one’ AND ‘two’ appears in the same (combination of) name and description. If it matches the name and description of an album, you get the album, and photo vice versa. OR this might apply for (‘three’ AND ‘four’) OR ‘five’. Albums and photos are returned on one page, regardless of pagination settings, if any. That’s the way it is designed.

How can i translate the plugin into my language?

• See the documentation on the WPPA+ Docs & Demos site:http://wppa.opajaap.nl/?page_id=1349

How do i install a hotfix?

• See the documentation on the WPPA+ Docs & Demos site:http://wppa.opajaap.nl/?page_id=823

What to do if i get errors during upload or import photos?

• It is always the best to downsize your photos to the Full Size before uploading. It is the fastest and safest way to add photos tou your photo albums. Photos that are way too large take unnessesary long time to download, so your visitors will expierience a slow website. Therefor the photos should not be larger (in terms of pixelsizes) than the largest size you are going to display them on the screen. WP-photo-album-plus is capable to downsize the photos for you, but very often this fails because of configuration problems. Here is explained why: Modern cameras produce photos of 7 megapixels or even more. To downsize the photos to either an automaticly downsized photo or even a thumbnail image, the server has to create internally a fullsize fullcolor image of the photo you are uploading/importing. This will require one byte of memory for each color (Red, Green, Blue) and for every pixel. So, apart form the memory required for the server’s program and the resized image, you will need 21 MB (or even more) of memory just for the intermediate image. As most hosting providers do not allow you more than 32 MB, you will get ‘Out of memory’ errormessages when you try to upload large pictures. You can configure WP to use 64 MB (That would be enough in most cases) by specifying define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’); in wp-config.php, but, as explained earlier, this does not help when your hosting provider does not allows the use of that much memory. If you have control over the server yourself: configure it to allow the use of enough memory. Oh, just Google on ‘picture resizer’ and you will find a bunch of free programs that will easily perform the resizing task for you.