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Hey Brajesh,

While I was looking for alternative solution of Ning, I found buddypress is promising enough. My present site is http://www.myhobbyphotography.com. With my limited understanding with buddypress I have developed basic community with the help of available plugins in your site. Now I need to customize the site as a photography community. For that the following feature to be integrated:

1. Featured photographs to display as sideshow on home page from your BP Gallery Rc4 plug-in instead of post.

2. I need another section on home page to display latest photo uploaded (20-30 latest photo thumbnails) with a link "View All" at the bottom of table. On clicking "View All", user should be able to see all the photographs distributed across multiple pages (per page 50 thumbnails, lets assume). You can see the live reference on http://www.myhobbyphotography.com for better understanding. Presently I am using your BP Gallery Rc4 plug-in.

3. While uploading photo, user should be able to choose predefined categories from multiple choice check box, as it is available for 'post' but I want the same for photo uploading using your BP Gallery Rc4 plug-in.

4. These categories will be displayed on homepage in "side bar" and on clicking on any of the category, relevant photographs should display distributed across multiple pages (per page lets assume 50 thumbnails).

5. Last, as wordpress has photo rating system, I want user should be able to rate photographs, a like button (as reference in your activity stream you have provided like button as plug-in and for photo rating http://www.elegantthemes.com/preview/eGallery/) and total number of views

Please let me know how to go about it with your support...

Thanks
Anirban

Posted 2 years ago #

Romel
hi Anirban
Thanks for joining and providing the question in detail.
I just checked your site.
The 1, and 2 is easy. Do you have a preference of slideshow script ?

problem with option 3 is , Bp-gallery does not allows independent gallery, the gallery should be associated with a person or group.

The easiest way to accomplish it wil be create a public group and create Different galleries for that(consider it category).

In that case, I can post customized code to allow anyone logged in to upload to thhose galleires using drop downs and alos allow the listing as you have mentioned.What do you thik of it.

The rating component is delayed and It will not be available anytime before Buddypress 1.3 still I will check if any existing script can be directly integrated.

Posted 2 years ago #

Brajesh Singh
Hi Brajesh,

Thanks for responding.

I am glad that point 1 and 2 has easy solution with you. Please assist. I would be glad to integrate slideshow script for featured photos (not post). For latest photo uploaded I would prefer thumbnail view.

I am even more happy that you have found alternative solution for point 3. I have no problem creating galleries in advance as categories. While uploading any image, user should be able to select the relevant gallery or category from the existing list. I would prefer to have a multiple choice check box rather dropdown just because a photograph may associate with more than one categories. Just that later on, user should not be able to create any gallery other than the predefined galleries or so called categories. They can only upload photos to existing galleries available. In that case your solution is sounding perfectly fine.

I can live without rating for the time being, I can wait for your next release. But it would be really great if you can have any work around or possibility to integrate available plug-in like GD star which works for wordpress posts.

I am already your fan and I am really excited to implement those solutions... Also glad to know that you belong the same city, Delhi.

Thank you Brajesh once again

Anirban

Posted 2 years ago #

Romel
hi Anirban
Thanks for the message :)

I am going to write some custom code today for your need will be posting tomorrow.
Just clarifying the things here
1. User should not have personal gallery ?
2. There will be only global galleries (created by admin)
3. You want images to be posted to more than one gallery(seems difficult in current gallery setup, It should have been easier with tags though)
4.Do you want to keep group galleries for users(allow them to create if they are admin of the group or not ?).

yeh, I belong to north Delhi :)

Posted 2 years ago #

Brajesh Singh
Hi Brajesh,

1. Yes you are right, user should not have personal gallery or so called category but photo uploaded by user, should appear on their personal profile page(may be under "Photo" tab or "Album" tab). So that if any other user or visitor wants to check particular photographer’s picture the user or visitor can browse through from photographer’s profile page.

2. Yes, there will be only predefined galleries (so called categories) available to upload pictures. So that pictures can be browsed through by clicking any of the gallery (or category). Like landscape, portrait, travel, flora, close-up, still-life, etc.

3. That’s ok, a picture can belong to one main gallery (or category) and can have different tags.

4. Only Admin and Moderator can add gallery (or category). (I am not sure whether I clarified adequately on this point :) )

One more query, what would be your advice to setup this type of portal on Wordpress MU or Wordpress single user? I have developed in both, the only major difference I experienced is in the “blogs” and some of the minor plug-ins did not respond well with Wordpress Single user.

Posted 2 years ago #

Romel
Hi Brajesh,

Hope you are following this thread, looking for the solution you advised...

Regards
Romel

Posted 2 years ago #

Romel
hi Anirban
Yes, I have this thread in mind. It requires a lot of code though. I have been trying to catchup with the regular schedule recently, that's why I was not much active. Please give me this weekend for posting some detailed code and steps.

Posted 2 years ago #

Brajesh Singh
Hi Brajesh,

Is there any hope to get the solution soon?

Regards
Romel

Posted 1 year ago #

Romel
@Romel
Sorry, It missed from my mind. please give me 2 more days.

Posted 1 year ago #

Brajesh Singh
I am running out of time. Please make it fast Brajesh.

Posted 1 year ago #

Romel
hi Sorry for the procrastination.
let us get started now
I will put the slideshow and improved shortcode for you to embed images as is on your site.
here are some of the sideshow scripts I have considered, let me know if anyone of them is good for you or you have some recommendation. I will make them as a plugin which will play nicely with bp-gallery.

let me know it today and I will put them for you tonight.
Here are the scripts I have thought of using:-
http://www.serie3.info/s3slider/demonstration.html
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/simplegallery.htm
http://medienfreunde.com/lab/innerfade/

Please let me know about the slideshow oday.
So, today/tonight we will have the slideshow/listing of images

For tomorrow I will put the code for allowing other features.

Posted 1 year ago #

Brajesh Singh
I used another easy script from DynamicDrive for the home page of my site http://rspace.org, but simple controls is prettier. Here it is for comparison:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex14/fadeinslideshow.htm

Posted 1 year ago #

Patrick
Hi Brajesh,

I was out of town. Came back yesterday. I am all ready to follow your steps. Any of the gallery which has next and previous control will do for me. Only thing is that pictures should be click-able. Looking forward....

Posted 1 year ago #

Romel
Glad to see you back. I was waiting for your selecting of gallery script. I will select either from Patrick's advice or from one of the gallery I have chosen and will post back tonight. Then will proceed as I mentioned earlier.

Posted 1 year ago #

Brajesh Singh
sorry for not posting it, for last few days, I was busy with global forum plugin(which might be of your use), right now I am working on the sideshow now, so expect a post any time today(yes, In day and in IST).

Posted 1 year ago #

Brajesh Singh
@romeldey
here is the first thing. It will allow you to list all the recent photos across the site in a paginated page.
Please download the file

http://buddydev.com/http//buddydev.com/public-download/recent-phostos-page-template.zip
Unzip it.
move the file "recent-photos" to bp-default theme then append the content of style.css to your stylesheet.

Now Login to admin pane,
dashboard->New page->
Create a page with any title and select "Recent Photos" from the page template menu
Click save and check the page, It will list 12 images per page in a paginated way. I have put the template/css for bp-default if you are using different theme you may have to change them yourself.

Will be posting the slideshow again later.

Posted 1 year ago #

Brajesh Singh
It works pretty good here!
The only thing I will want to change: having photos in a chronological order, the most recent first.
They seems to be in a random order and I can't find how to change it in recent-photos.php

Posted 1 year ago #

Claude Gagné
Yeah :) it is working fine Brajesh.

How do I showcase these recent photos on home page (may be last 20 photos or so)? Also will it be possible to feature desired photos (by admin only)? I want the slide show to display only featured photos on home page.

Lemme know about the possibilities.

Thanks
Romel

Posted 1 year ago #

Romel
I have another query Brajesh, can we somehow treat these photo uploads as individual post? Then many of the problems will be solved. Like photo rating, feature and category... What say???

Posted 1 year ago #

Romel
@romelday

for viewing 20 images edit line 16 in recent-photos.php

<?php if (bp_gallery_has_medias("type=photo&per_page=12&sitewide=true")) :

change per_page=12 to 20

<?php if (bp_gallery_has_medias("type=photo&per_page=20&sitewide=true")) :

like so.

RUDD3R

Posted 1 year ago #
Thanks RUDD3R. I am able to increase number of display per page. My query was how do I display recent photos on homepage as well. I have managed to that also. Thank you guys...

Posted 1 year ago #

Romel
@claudegagn
```
<?php if (bp_gallery_has_medias("type=photo&per_page=12&sitewide=true&orderby=date")) :
```
Change orderby to date and it will arrange by date.

You can also order by
"alphabet","random","sort_order"

Where alphabet will organize by title, random will do the random and sort_order will produce the order organized by user. do not use "sort_order" on sitewide photos, It may not work. rest will work fine.
Posted 1 year ago #
Brajesh Singh
Thanks a lot! It works!
Can I do the same for the gallery page?
Wich php file should I edit?
Now, another question: can I define the number of column that will appear on my recent photo's page?
Depending of which browser I use and which computer, the result is not the same. Sometimes I have 4 columns, sometime only one and, the worse case, sometime five (this overlap with the sidebar).
I use BP default theme

Posted 1 year ago #

Claude Gagné
Hey Brajesh,

I just updated Wordpress to latest version 3 and the gallery stopped working. I guess we need to update the plug-in else we need to use the earlier version of wordpress.

What would you recommend?

Thanks
Romel

Posted 1 year ago #

Romel
@romeldey
for wp3.0, there is already another version of gallery available.
Please use update 3
http://buddydev.com/http//buddydev.com/download/bp-gallery-rc4update3.zip

@claudegagn
That is css dependent, you may want to customize that using css.

Posted 1 year ago #

Brajesh Singh
... still looking to rearange the thumbs. Look everywhere in every css files related to buddypress and bp gallery: can't find !!!

Posted 1 year ago #

Claude Gagné
Hi Brajesh,

I am back... Can you please help me to make "Recent Photos" and "Site wide Activity Widget" to appear on my home page? Not in side widget but at the main area where generally posts appear.

Regards
Anirban

Posted 1 year ago #

Romel
Just to clarify more, I want the "Recent Photos" to appear above "Site wide Activity Widget"....

Please reply soon...

Posted 1 year ago #

Romel
Hey Brajesh I have managed to do it... But I have a query:

When I upload photos through the menu Gallery>Upload (Bp Gallery), they dont appear on site wide activity. Whereas when I use the upload button next to "Post update" button it appears... If you can help me to make the files appear I upload using Bp Gallery....

Thanks
Romel

Posted 1 year ago #

Romel
Hi Romel ,
There are basic differences between the two uploads,. When you upload from activity stream, It is assumed that you want to share it with other and the update is posted in your activity strea.
when you upload from your own gallery, The media is upload but not published to activity stream. it gives you the opportunity to publish them on your wish. You can go to Your Profile-->gallery->some_gallery_name->edit and click on "Publish media to activity link" to publish it.

Posted 1 year ago #

Brajesh Singh