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Newbie: big photo + thumbnails with JS image swap

jhodes Member
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Hi all,

I'm a newbie looking to do something that looks very similar to the example here, embedded in a Wordpress site:

http://www.maxsher.com/kronstadt/Max_Sher_Kronstadt_005.jpg.php

There's a single large image with caption, then below there's thumbnails of the other images in the gallery. The thumbnails appear to be operated with a jQuery Carousel.

1) What's the best way to implement this? Could you steer me towards the right zenphoto terminology and any plugins I might need?

2) When clicking on a thumbnail image, I'd love for the main image to be replaced via JS, rather than forcing a page reload. Thoughts on the best approach if this is my end goal?

3) Re: integrating with WordPress, I see the two methods (ruzee's and einar's) discussed on the forum, but both involve hacking the ZP theme to match WP. Ideally I'd like to avoid that and instead insert my ZP photo or gallery directly onto a WP page. Would you folks advise doing -- via ZenPhotoPress? or some other plugin? -- if if I want the end result to look like the above example?

Thanks in advance,
Jacob

Comments

  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    That example site is completly run by Zenphoto and it's CMS plugin Zenpage using a custom made theme.

    1) The main gallery menu is probably done by using the print_album menu plugin. I would first recommend to read our theming tutorial to get familiar with Zenphoto themes in general as you will have to do some work.

    2) You will have to code this and the jCarousel implementation yourself. There is no plugin for this. The latter is not that difficult if you know php. Take a look at our functions documentation.

    3) All Wordpress tools known to us are listed on our extensions page. ZenphotoPress is surely the most and best used one as it is frequently updated by its developer.

    You can't directly insert Zenphoto into a Wordpress page. All methodes of integration are described here:
    http://www.zenphoto.org/2009/03/troubleshooting-zenphoto/#32

    Zenphoto is actually a standalone Gallery CMS and is also able to run an entire gallery focussed site with the already mentioned Zenpage plugin. Take a look. Maybe that fits your needs, too.
  • jhodes Member
    Thanks acrylian, this is really helpful. I'll dig a little deeper into ZenPhoto functions, and the CMS functionality, and consider my options.

    Re 3): I'm confused, I though the point of the ZenPhotoPress plugin was to be able to embed images (and galleries?) into a WP post or page? As outlined here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/zenphotopress/faq/

    Thanks again for your help.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Re 3) Well, seems that I answered to the first version of your post where you asked about inserting Zenphoto itself into a page. What I meant is that Zenphotopress lets you insert images and such as described but within posts or pages not as real gallery pages ifself as Zenphoto uses them.
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/zenphotopress/screenshots/ (bottom one).
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