How to start with WP Photo Album Plus

Posted on 17 July, 2010 by admin

Currently running WPPA+ 5.0.3

This site may temporary be out of order and/or you may see no photos for a while. I am always testing new features or investigating reported problems that require code modifications

This post demonstrates how to start with WP Photo-Album-Plus. After installation of the plugin do the following: In order to make sure that the directory …/wp-content/uploads exists, upload a simple image by using the ‘Add an image’ button on top of the edit area of the ‘Edit Post’ admin page if you did this not before.

There must be something in the upload directory

Then create at least one album and upload or import more then one photo to it. If there is only one photo in an album, it is assumed that the album is not ment to contain photos, but to contain child albums only. Therefor the photo will not be shown in the album, but will solely be used as a cover photo. You can change the minimum number of photos, so you can have changing coverphotos for such albums. For more info: see the Settings admin panel: Photocount treshold. Now make a post or page with e.g. the title “Photo album”. Enter in the text area simply the text: %%wppa%% and save the post or page. View the page or post and you will see something like this:

How to start with WP Photo Album Plus

First album

This is the description of the first album. It has a € sign in the description.

Slideshow
View 5 photos

Second album

Just another album
You can even have a link here!

Slideshow
View 7 albums (9) and 6 photos (192)

Album # 4

This is album four. It has (') and (") quotes in its description as well as html.

Slideshow
View 1 album and 8 photos (18)

Bogolyubov

A contribution from wlukas
This album displays the thumbnails in the alternative size

Slideshow
View 21 photos

You just created your first Photo album page (or post). Try the links, view the thumbnail images and the slideshow. There is much more to do! See the Tutorial (Menu tab above), but this is enough for now!

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Top Plugin for WordPress

Posted on 28 January, 2013 by admin

WPPA+ has been tested and selected as Top Plugin for WordPress by:


See the review here

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Comten test

Posted on 20 December, 2012 by admin

This is a test post to test the functionality of the Comten – feature in a post.

Comten test • Second album • Birds • Recently commented photos
Mute Swan
Mute Swan (admin)
Camera info
Rating: 3.80
Mallard Duck
Mallard Duck (admin)
Camera info
Rating: 5.00
Mallard Duck in automn gold (F)
Mallard Duck in automn gold (F) (admin)
Camera info
Rating: 4.50
Comten test • Second album • Birds • Recently uploaded photos
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110813am183kf.jpg (admin)
Camera info
Rating: 4.00
070509ae007kf
070509ae007kf.jpg (admin)
Camera info
Rating: 5.00
100602am131kf
100602am131kf.jpg (admin)
Camera info
Rating: 4.00
060805ae072k2f
060805ae072k2f.jpg (admin)
Camera info
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050524AE0023kf.jpg (admin)
Camera info
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050604ae0009kf.jpg (admin)
Camera info
Mallard Duck in automn gold (F)
Mallard Duck in automn gold (F) (admin)
Camera info
Rating: 4.50

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Version 4.3 IPTC and EXIF introduced

Posted on 7 January, 2012 by admin

In version 4.3 IPTC and EXIF support in WPPA+ is introduced.

If you have WPPA+ version 4.3 or later, all available IPTC and EXIF data that is inside the photo file will be captured and imported into the WPPA+ system (db tables wppa_iptc and wppa_exif).
This is regardless of wheter the IPTC and/or EXIF boxes are enabled in Table II items 28 and 29.
Note that this feature is only configurable in the Auto Save version of the Settings page.

The capturing of this info is done either when uploading or importing photos to the wppa+ system.
If you want the IPTC and EXIF data to be imported from existing photos, you will have to update them using the wppa-depot and the update checkbox checked on the Import photos admin page. This will keep the original phot ids and will prevent the generation of duplicates. Also when updating you do not need to know the potos albums.

Once there is IPTC and/or EXIF data present, The Tables X and XI will show all the IPCT and EXIF tags that were actually found during upload/import.

You can edit the lables, you can even make them multilangual according to the qTranslate rules. Example (used on this site):

Exif tag E#9202 has description:
[:en]ApertureValue:[:nl]Diafragma:
to make sure the labels will display in the sites language.

You can also change the display status in the Tables on the settings page, so only the tags you want to show up in the IPTC and EXIF boxes will be displayed.

You can use the IPTC and EXIF data in the descriptions of photos very easy.

To embed a IPTC tag value into a description, use for example: 2#080 to display the photographers name.
To embed a EXIF tag value into a description, use for example: E#829A to display the exposure time.

The full text i use in the description of Jules Gobeils birds in this site is:


<a href="javascript://" onClick="jQuery('.wppa-dtl').css('display', 'block'); jQuery('.wppa-more').css('display', 'none'); wppaOvlResize();">
<div class="wppa-more">Camara info</div>
</a>
<a href="javascript://" onClick="jQuery('.wppa-dtl').css('display', 'none'); jQuery('.wppa-more').css('display', 'block'); wppaOvlResize();">
<div class="wppa-dtl" style="display:none;" >Hide Camera info</div>
</a>
<div class="wppa-dtl" style="display:none;">
<br />
<style>.wppa-label { padding: 0 3px !important; border: none !important; }.wppa-value { padding: 0 3px 0 12px !important; border:none !important; }</style>
<table style="margin:0; border:none;" >
<tr><td class="wppa-label" >Date Time</td><td class="wppa-value" >E#0132</td></tr>
<tr><td class="wppa-label" >Camera</td><td class="wppa-value" >E#0110</td></tr>
<tr><td class="wppa-label" >Focal length</td><td class="wppa-value" >E#920A</td></tr>
<tr><td class="wppa-label" >F-Stop</td><td class="wppa-value" >E#829D</td></tr>
<tr><td class="wppa-label" >ISO Speed Rating</td><td class="wppa-value" >E#8827</td></tr>
<tr><td class="wppa-label" >Exposure program</td><td class="wppa-value" >E#8822</td></tr>
<tr><td class="wppa-label" >Metering mode</td><td class="wppa-value" >E#9207</td></tr>
<tr><td class="wppa-label" >Flash</td><td class="wppa-value" >E#9209</td></tr>
</table>
</div>

Note 1: You need “Allow HTML” (Table IX-4) checked.
Note 2: As soon as you have figured out your standard description, you can put it in Table IX-12 so it will be there automaticly on new uploaded/imported photos.

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