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Christopher Price
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10th May 2010 (2 years ago)
I've been trying to employ a decent gallery plug-in for WPMU and have come up short. I was able to get NextGen Gallery to work, but it takes up a ton of screen space and is overly complicated.
I found I nice little non-flash, coverflow-like carousel called Imageflow2 at http://stofko.ca/wp-imageflow2-wordpress-plugin/ but it doesn't work with MU out of the box. After many hours of trial and error hacking (I'm not a professional programmer) I got it to work nicely on WPMU with the following few changes:
On lines 180, 270, and 363 of wp-imageflow2.php, change this line: $plugin_url = get_option('siteurl') . "/" . PLUGINDIR . "/" . plugin_basename(dirname(__FILE__));
to this: $plugin_url = get_option('siteurl') . "/" . PLUGINDIR;
I had to disable the groovy reflections until I can install the GD PHP library.
Overall, I'd say all the galleries I found were surprisingly over-complicated. WP seems to require that images be associated to a particular posts/pages, and most of the gallery plug-ins I found were heavy in terms of screen-space and memory requirements.
I'm concerned about providing any of these gallery tools to my non-techie clients. Maybe, a super simple Gallery plug-in is on the WPMUdev horizon?
I've been trying to employ a decent gallery plug-in for WPMU and have come up short. I was able to get NextGen Gallery to work, but it takes up a ton of screen space and is overly complicated.
I found I nice little non-flash, coverflow-like carousel called Imageflow2 at http://stofko.ca/wp-imageflow2-wordpress-plugin/ but it doesn't work with MU out of the box. After many hours of trial and error hacking (I'm not a professional programmer) I got it to work nicely on WPMU with the following few changes:
On lines 180, 270, and 363 of wp-imageflow2.php, change this line: $plugin_url = get_option('siteurl') . "/" . PLUGINDIR . "/" . plugin_basename(dirname(__FILE__));
to this: $plugin_url = get_option('siteurl') . "/" . PLUGINDIR;
I had to disable the groovy reflections until I can install the GD PHP library.
Overall, I'd say all the galleries I found were surprisingly over-complicated. WP seems to require that images be associated to a particular posts/pages, and most of the gallery plug-ins I found were heavy in terms of screen-space and memory requirements.
I'm concerned about providing any of these gallery tools to my non-techie clients. Maybe, a super simple Gallery plug-in is on the WPMUdev horizon?
Responses (2)
Member — 11th May 2010 (2 years ago) #
Bah. GD PHP enabled, yet there is some path thing that's not quite right for showing reflections. This would be a lot easier to do if I had a clue.
Member — 11th May 2010 (2 years ago) #
A simple fix makes reflection work: Comment out line 77 of plugins/php/reflect.php
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