ZenPress: Zenphoto plugin for WordPress (Part 2)

trisweb

This topic is a continuation of the original ZenPress thread, and is a place to discuss ZenPress by Simbul.

Please look through the original thread for answers to questions you might have before posting them here. Thanks!

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http://www.simbul.net/zenpress
ZenPress is a plugin for WordPress. It is designed to provide an easy way to include Zenphoto images into your blog posts.

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(As a side note, this is the first time we've ever closed a discussion in this forum!)

kifo

Okay I shall be the first.

Regarding the issue about urlencode raised by thinkdreams, is it related to how the links break when I try to insert a picture with spaces in its name on wordpress?

You can see how the links break on my page here. http://www.artmgs.info/students/sec1/2007/03/distorted-truths

On a separate note, it breaks on the Zenthumbs widget as well.

Simbul

As far as I know, the problem should be with sub-albums (i.e. with forward slashes in the album name), not with spaces.

thinkdreams

Simbul is correct. However, it may be more related to how the Wordpress editor is handling the URLs once they are pasted into the editor. I've seen the WP editor do strange things to text and links before it gets posted, but as far as I know, spaces shouldn't be an issue with Zenphoto.

trisweb

As long as they're correctly URLencoded then they should work fine...

Ah, you've discovered a bug! It works if the .php extension is added at the end of the page link (as in the zenphoto gallery itself) but if the .php is omitted, it crops off after the first space, which is probably an error. I will test this now...

trisweb

@kifo - could you open a new bug for this on the bugtracker please? I may have you test some things if you have time... thanks!

ebenjen

Here's what I hope is a quick configuration question. I've got zenphoto installed and working and I've got the plugin installed and activated. When I'm in the text editor writing anew article I see the 'zenpress' button so everything seems to be installed properly. Unofrtunately, when I click 'zenpress' I get a 404 error in the resulting popup window. The url that it's trying to load shows up as this:

http://foolcrow.com/winefoolery/PLUGINDIR/zenpress/tinymce/popup_zp.php?tinyMCE=0

Any ideas why PLUGINDIR is showing up where "wp-content/plugins" should be?

Thanks.

onetr1p

How do you sort the thumbnails by decending date, or ID since the ID is basically the same as date order? I post a lot of pictures and it's tiresome to search through the pictures.

onetr1p

Another thing, some of the thumbs are not being cropped in the blog posts, but if you check the zenphoto gallery all the images are cropped. So I'm assuming it has something to do with the zenpress plugin.

SusieN

I have a question and I didn't find anything in the previous thread that answered it. I have the latest version of Wordpress, Zenphoto, and Zenpress. Everything is working as it should except Zenpress. In the popup window, the thumbnails are not showing. And further, the link (it's text since the thumbnail isn't showing) doesn't work as it should. The address to the photo I'm linking appears in the address bar, but the page doesn't move.

Help?

EdnaGarrett

@SusieN: there seems to be a problem in the latest Wordpress release and that's making Zenpress not work in some people's Wordpress, like mine

http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=466&page=4&replies=196
the (now closed) thread has some comments about that

Me, I solved this using good ol' stable Wordpress 2.0.9 and the according Zenpress plugin
(it's in the Release archive)
http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/

SusieN

Thank you very much, Mrs. G. (sorry, couldn't resist) I will look into it!

Simbul

I just received a Cease&Desist mail from ZATZ Publishing, which is claiming ownership on the name "ZenPress".
I'm going to look into the issue as soon as possible. As a temporary measure, all downloads from my website are disabled.

aitf311

Ahh, come on! Your ZenPress is a plugin for a blogging solution, which is given away for free. Admittedly, I am not a lawyer yet, but I am not seeing the conflict here. Hope to see you come out victorious.

acrylian

How bad is that! I am no lawyer, too, but if "zenpress" is protected as a trademark name, they are probably right, even if there is no real conflict. Maybe they don't like that your plugin is first in google...

I did a quick search at the US patent and trademark office website, but could not find it neither as a patent nor as a trademark...
As far as I know there are national and international trademarks (in Germany at least), you are from Italy, right?...

Couldn't you just rename it for now? Maybe zenphotoforwordpress or something? Or like Prince did: TZPPLTFWKAZP (The zenphoto plugin for wordpress that was formerly known as zenpress) (Sorry, probably not really funny...)

BertSimons

ps for the next renamed zenpress plugin.. also rename the references in the source files.. and not only in case of a legal conflict ....

but also because I noticed zenpress doesn't work (if you use a customsized thumb) with the nightly builds because some functions point to the wrong i.php location (zen instead of zp-core)

a happy user who will always remember it as zenpress!

alltruist

Is there any news of how the rebranding and whatnot is going? And when will there be a release that works with ZP 1.1?

Simbul

I'm working on it as often as I can, but admittedly I have very little spare time these days.
In addition, as you can guess, it all piled up: the mandatory rebranding, the update to Wordpress 2.3.x and now the update to Zenphoto 1.1.
To speed up the release time I think the new version will just concentrate on compatibility with the new versions of Zenphoto and Wordpress, without adding new features. I don't know how long it's going to take, anyway.

Simbul

Ok, maybe I was a little too pessimistic: it seems like the porting to Zenphoto and Wordpress' new versions went smoother than I expected.
I still need some time for testing & packaging, but all things considered version 1.3 shouldn't take long

shiatostorm

ooh...looking forwards to the update!

maxbear

Thanks a lot Simbul.

I'm using your old zenpress with wordpress 2.3.1 without problem. But I haven't upgrade to the latest version of zenphoto. I just waiting for your zenpress released.

By the way, can you make your script directly link to the image instead of going to the album? I remember that I need to modify your script to do it and I did post it in this forum of how to modify it.

Will you support sub category in this version?

thinkdreams

In the meantime, for those of us who have already used Zenpress and have images in posts, just edit each post and modify zen/i.php to zp-core/i.php for each image. That will at least display the existing images.

trisweb

Oh wow, thank you craig, totally forgot about that.

I think for backward compatibility I will add a line to my rewrite rules redirecting zen/i.php to zp-core/i.php

Thanks again, that's a good catch.

trisweb

Hmmm... harder than I thought. Mod_rewrite isn't the most bug-free thing in the world, just in case you were wondering.

Simbul

mode_rewrite gave me some fine headaches too (and still is, btw )

@maxbear: what do you mean, "directly link to the image"? I'm pretty sure the link to a single image is already the default behavior.

By the way, to answer some unspoken questions:
- As far as my testing goes, I'm positive that the plugin doesn't work with Zenphoto 1.1
- The next release will just focus on the re-branding and base compatibility with Wordpress and Zenphoto: sorry, but I can't support the wonderful new Zenphoto features until I had some time to fully understand how they work
- Regarding release dates: hang on, I'm almost there

Lyanna

Is there anyone who can help me? I love ZenPhoto and ZenPress, but I have quite an old version that (I think) is not compatible with the current WordPress version. In any case, the ZP button does not show up in the editor.

Does anyone have the latest stable version anywhere? I know there is a branding problem and that the downloads are disabled - I get why. I was just wondering if someone could possibly send me a zip or something. It would be muchly appreciated.

alltruist

Great to hear! I look forward to the release.
Just a question, is it possible to use ZenPress if ZenPhoto and WordPress are on separate subdomains?

Simbul

I just released version 1.3. Since I had to change the name of the plugin to ZenphotoPress, I created a new thread to discuss it.

AmbitiousLemon

Using Zenphoto 1.1 and ZenPhotopress 1.3 I am having a problem with image thumbnails showing up in old blog posts that were created prior to the update to Zenpress 1.1 and ZenPress 1.3. New posts show thumbnails as expected but all of the past posts have broken image links. Is there a way (short of manually editing every old post) to fix all of these broken links caused by the update?

Simbul

ZenphotoPress does not edit old posts: an update of ZenphotoPress from 1.1 to 1.3 cannot possibly break the links in old posts.
More likely, the problem lies in the interaction between ZenphotoPress and Zenphoto: it seems the URLs in your old posts are not recognized by Zenphoto anymore. Couldn't the problem be the upgrade to Zenphoto 1.1? Did you check that?

BTW, try to post some of the non-working URLs, so we can try to understand what's going on

AmbitiousLemon

It certainly could be the upgrade from ZenPhoto 1.1 to 1.3 since ZenPhoto changed it's zen directory name. But since ZenPhotoPress created the links I thought the upgrade should fix the old ones when I clicked the upgrade button.

The gallery is at:
www.gnomadic.org/gallery

The blog is at:
www.gnomadic.org

None of the image links on the blog work since all were created prior to the upgrade.