by Darkness
Gallery Test
July 28, 2009 in Darkness by Darkness
Since no one else seems to have tried it after I posted the Notice, I thought I’d grab a dozen photos from our Member Gallery section and try it out. I hope Saz doesn’t mind. I’ll remove this post after a few days probably. Just long enough for others to see the results.
There was a button on the right, so I’m going to click it. When I mouseover, it says Add NextGEN Gallery. Ok, that didn’t seem to help as it expects me to already have a Gallery ready to insert. Next, I’ll try the first button after “Add media:” That seemed to work. I selected about 12 to 14 images and it started uploading them one at a time. I did get an HTTP ERROR at some point during the process. I don’t know why. That’s all it said. I guess if I noticed some images missing, I’d just re-add them probably.
I clicked the “Save All Changes” button, even though I didn’t really do anything else. After that, it gave me an option about some ordering of the images, how many per row or column or something. Then I just clicked Insert Gallery button.
I’m back in the Editor again now after taking a look. That does look pretty good! Doesn’t it?
I noticed a “Gallery” button in my menu near the bottom. I’m going to click that next and see what other options it may have.
Update: Ah, that was for the NextGEN gallery plugin that I apparently didn’t end up using at all. I found out what my HTTP ERROR was from. I ran out of my alloted disk space of 10MB with the images I uploaded. That makes sense. It might be better to add images hosted remotely so you don’t run out of space. You can do that on the same menu but use “From URL” instead of “From Computer” when adding the pics. Not as awesomely easy but keeps you from running out of space. I added a jQuery lightbox plugin so that my gallery uses a cool effect when viewing an image.
Ok, I don’t get it. I used the “add media” but my images never appeared in my post. I was remote hosting, so I was using “from URL” and it inserted links to my pictures in my post. That was not at all what I was going for, and I couldn’t figure out how to get it to put the image in.
Second of all, I don’t usually want to insert an entire gallery of pictures. I usually want to insert one or two at strategic places within the text. I don’t see how that would work with this process.
Third, this is incredibly complicated and time consuming and clunky.
It may feel clunky and time consuming because like anything, you have to learn it once and realize how simple it really is first.
Click the 1st icon after “Add media:” to add an image.
After you click the “From URL” tab, you enter the information.
I entered the URL, it did something and came back with a green checkmark.
I entered a title.
At the bottom is a button “Insert into Post”
I see the image in my Editor now.
Images works for me too now.
I’m actually using NextGEN and find it quite easy to use. On my blog I have the NextGEN applet as a sidebar widget. It lets me control which pics I show and in which order, while at the same time not having a full blown photo gallery to work with. It’s simple and effective for what I want it to do.
There’s no post about it yet, but the Twitter plugin is really fucking easy to use.
Strike that, tweetable is very unstable. I get php errors like crazy in the admin control panel when it is active.
Why would I mind?
I probably won’t use this though, I think I spam the forum enough as it is with pictures
I might try it at some point tho…