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PhotoSmash is Compatible with WordPress 2.9

by on December 21, 2009 in News, PhotoSmash

In case anyone was concerned, PhotoSmash appears to functioning completely normally under WordPress 2.9. I’m running 2.9 on this site, and the demo galleries are working fine.

I’m making some enhancements to the photo tagging that is currently available in PhotoSmash that will be coming out in a week or so. The test blog I’m using for that development is running WordPress 2.9 as well.

I think 2.9 will be a huge benefit to all of you who are using the Add to WP Media option. This is going to let you do some editing of your images using the new image editor in the WordPress Media gallery admin pages. This includes rotating images, resizing thumbnails, and grabbing different crop areas for thumbs.

Very, very useful update to WordPress! A hearty “THANK YOU!” to the WP core Team.

And while I’m at it, thanks to all of my PhotoSmash users for sticking with me through this year! PhotoSmash went live back in February of this year (I think…). It’s come a long way, and the user community has been very helpful in rooting out the problems and pointing the way toward the features that make PhotoSmash a unique and hopefully useful piece of the WordPress community.

Cheers to all, and Merry Christmas!
Byron

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New Demo Page…and Author Galleries in 0.3.01

by on July 23, 2009 in News, PhotoSmash

Hi PhotoSmashers! I’ve created a new demo page here on Smashly. Eating one’s own dogfood and all that. Check it out…load some images!

Working on Version 0.3.01

In other news, the next version of PhotoSmash will bring you an option to show all contributors’ images in their WordPress Author page. I’m kind of excited about figuring out a way to enable that without having you tweak your templates with template tags. I wanted the images to show up at the top of Author page, so what I did was tap into the get_posts WordPress hook and use a little PHP array magic to “unshift” a new Post onto the posts array. When WordPress does the loop, it displays the gallery just like a gallery embedded in any other post. The gallery can use custom layouts, custom fields, etc, just like any other gallery. The only trick is that it will contain all the images by a given contributor, and it will not contain an upload form…of course ;P .

I hope to have 0.3.01 out the door to you guys this weekend!

Cheers,
Byron

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PhotoSmash 0.3 Released!

by on July 13, 2009 in News, PhotoSmash, Plugins

At long last! PhotoSmash 0.3 is being released in conjunction with the launch of this site. At some point, you have to go ahead and unlock the doors and turn on the lights.

If you’ve been using PhotoSmash 0.2.62 (the previous stable version), then there are a lot of new features to explore in 0.3. If you’ve been Beta testing 0.3 (which itself is a beta ;-) ), then thanks! Nothing has changed since 0.2.996 (RC3), but you’ll want to do the upgrade anyway.

The documentation will be coming soon…I promise!

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