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I just upgraded and have a few questions...

Pierrot Member
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Hey Everyone!

I just upgraded and have a few questions...

1. I have this feature on my site where I use 'album description' below some custom thumbnails on the image page to navigate to each artists bio page. After I upgraded the 'album descriptions' disappeared. In fact, any changes I made to the album title (capitalization etc.) through admin seem to have disappeared. I didn't touch the database and have upgraded before without losing the info. Is there any way I can get it back?

2. It seems as though the image count no longer includes images within folders?

3. I restyled my theme to use a basic WordPress header include rather than the commonly used Ruzee's method. Do you anticipate any problems? Here's the include...

<?php require_once("../wp-blog-header.php");?>
<?php get_header(); ?>

Thanks!

http://phauxshow.com/gallery/

Comments

  • Pierrot Member
    Hmm, regarding point 2., the image counter seemed to just need a minute. It's fine now.

    I tried reverting back to my old theme just in case I removed something I shouldn't have but the problem I expressed in 1. still remains.
  • Pierrot Member
    One more thing...

    As I described above, I used the 'album description' field to provide a unique link under each artists set of thumbnails. As all of that info got lost in the upgrade I thought I would at least begin re-entering it. It seems now though, that the 'album description' field doesn't accept html. Any html I enter is converted to regular text without the link.

    Is there any way to prevent this?
  • sbillard Member
    #1. Is it possible that the database prefix was changed from befor the upgrade to after it? Look at your database and see if you seem to have two of each kind of table.
  • Pierrot Member
    Thanks sbillard,

    I checked the database and it seems like that's not the case. I've also included some info from the config files below. I'm also concerned though, that even if I can get that info back that the 'album description' no longer accepts html - which would render my links useless. Is there any way around this?

    Old installation:

    // If this is a new Zenphoto install, change the following to from 'false' to 'true'
    $conf['UTF-8'] = "true";

    // If you're sharing the database with other tables, use a prefix to be safe.
    $conf['mysql_prefix'] = "zp_";

    New:

    // If this is a new Zenphoto install, change the following to from 'false' to 'true'
    $conf['UTF-8'] = false;

    // If you're sharing the database with other tables, use a prefix to be safe.
    $conf['mysql_prefix'] = "zp_";
  • sbillard Member
    The description not accepting HTML is a temporary setback. It will be corrected in tonight's build.

    You probably want to edit the $conf['UTF-8'] line and set it back to true.

    Since it appears that the database prefix has not changed, I suspect that your problem with the descriptions has to do with the HTML in them. Tomorow download the 2008-08-22 nightly and see if it brings the descriptions back.
  • Pierrot Member
    Will do. I'm more than happy to wait till tomorrow.

    Thanks!
  • Pierrot Member
    Hey sbillard,

    I upgraded to the latest nightly with no trouble. I got the ability to enter html back - but my database was cleared. It's not that big a deal as I hadn't stored a tonne of info - just the links mentioned above and some image titles etc.

    I'm not sure what I did to wipe it out as I upgraded in the same way as before. And being the idiot that I am - I mistakenly thought that my WP database plugin was including the gallery, so I don't have a back up.

    Oh well, live and learn! I'll start inputting the info again.

    Thanks for your help!

    P.S. Thanks for changing the 404 structure.
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