@kuzzzma Привет! Благодарю за ответ. Посещал Ваш сайт, очень замечательные работы. Приношу всем извинения, но на русском, возможно, я быстрее и точнее объясню. ) Под изображением вверху я имел ввиду именно изображение, большое, не логотип. С этим разобрался. ) Это оказывается слайд-шоу, и могу указать альбом из которого брать фото. ) Под слайд-шоу фотографий имею ввиду полноценное слайд-шоу, с возможностью просмотра на весь экран. Сейчас в альбоме нет кнопок включения слайд-шоу, обычно это треугольник, как play. Если выбрать фото в альбоме, то оно просто на экране, и кнопки вперед и назад, и всё. Фото даже не кликабельно, проверил на Вашем сайте также. Самое интересное, что если зайти в архив, то фото там кликабельны, и если щелкнуть на фото, то появляется лайтбокс, и можно хотя бы перемещаться с помощью стрелок на клавиатуре, хотя кнопки включения слайд-шоу тоже нет. )

https://yadi.sk/d/i1udWeen4opHfQ

Please keep it in English. Thanks.

Ок. )
@kuzzzma Hello! Thank you for your reply. I visited your site, very wonderful work. I apologize to everyone, but in Russian, perhaps I will explain faster and more accurately. ) By the image above, I meant the image, a large one, not the logo. I figured it out. ) It turns out to be a slide show, and I can indicate the album from which to take the photo. ) By photo slideshow I mean a full-fledged slideshow, with the ability to view it in full screen. Now the album does not have buttons to turn on the slide show, usually it is a triangle, like play. If you select a photo in an album, it’s just on the screen, and there are forward and back buttons, and that’s it. The photo is not even clickable, I checked it on your website as well. The most interesting thing is that if you go to the archive, the photos there are clickable, and if you click on the photo, a lightbox appears, and you can at least navigate using the arrows on the keyboard, although there is no button to turn on the slide show either. )

https://yadi.sk/d/i1udWeen4opHfQ

I apologize to everyone, but in Russian, perhaps I will explain faster and more accurately.

I do understand as English is not my native language as well. But forum language is English only (see the forum rules please) so everyone including us can understand, benefit or help. Thanks for understanding.

Of course I understand. It’s just that nowadays the browser translates from any language on the fly. ) It’s like in a science fiction movie, everyone speaks their own language, but a small device translates into their native language. ) "City of a thousand planets." )

Sorry to ask here. can you recommend the newest fully functional theme? So that everything works without any tricks. ) Both slide show and full screen viewing. There are so many, you can’t try everything. There is no sorting by date, it is not clear which is newer. )

@Ewgeniy
Thanks!

Thanks for the explanation, got what you meant.

Paradigm theme had no functionality for such a slideshow (even though Zenphoto has a plugin for it) and I didn't add it, as I have no use for it.
I'll look into incorporating it, if the plugin is enabled.

Thanks for reporting problems with colorbox!
It should be a consistent behaviour, both in album pages and in the archives, I'll make it so in the next update for the theme.

Both slide show and full screen viewing. There are so many,

All official themes have slideshow support for albums including the colorbox "full screen". Of course these themes are a bit outdated.

GEnerally a search for "responsive" gives more current themes.

The latest added themes (first release) are listed in the sidebar. I cannot tell about in all details but we hostthree 3rd party themes: zenji, libratus and zpbase. And also forked thte apparently abandoned zpBootstrap. We only oughly maintain with bugfixes to work with current Zenphoto versions primarily on request.

Multiverse, collections and paradigm are good and maintained 3rd party themes.

You will most likely not find any that 100% fits our wishes of course.

@kuzzzma
@acrylian
Thank you very much for your answers!

Hi @kuzzzma,

you saved my day! I found your post here today, because I was looking for a working theme for Zenphoto, which you know, is not so easy these days ;-) Especially, if you're looking to something that fits to your own webpage.

I'm now using your modified paradigm theme. If you wanna have a look: https://spottair.de/

There is only one thing, I would like to be changed: Pictures for slideshows can only be selected from "published" Albums. I would like to select them from a special folder, that will not be published, because these pictures are just like "teasers". Is there any way, to disable the check for published/unpublished folders in the slide show?

Thanks,
Christian

Hi @ChristianS, so glad you found it of use (and so happy you used it for planespotting of all things!)

At first glance I was not able to get rid of unpublished clause, will check more on weekend, but some ideas:

• currently you can use a dynamic album as a source of slideshow pictures - this way you can to collect images from various published albums by adding "slideshow" tags or by searching by other criteria so they can work as teasers for your content.
  Note that though Dynamic albums can collect and display unpublished images, they won't show in the slideshow as of now.

• another option I will be looking into is to add option to use images from special folder in "uploaded" folder for the slideshow - now it's used for logos and other files you don't want to display in the main gallery, this way there is no problem with published status at all.

I think the dynamic album way is the best and most flexible. That way you can "pick" the images via a specific tag without having to create duplicates.

The uploaded folder is not really a good way IMHO because it is outside the general management and image processing is way more complicated.

Hi @kuzzzma,

thanks a lot for your answer. In the meantime I finished my work on restructuring my webpage and came to the final design.

Also, now my page has a logo and and favicon.ico.

The second option looks perfect to my. I created myself an auxilary folder, that contains pictures, I use in blogs and docu pages like this one: https://spottair.de/gallery/pages/About-me/ Of course, I don't want those picture to show up in any album. So - your second option would fit best. Would be great if you could enable this option.

Thanks again for your great work.

I don't want those picture to show up in any album.

But if the album is unpublished, it wil not show up for any normal visitor.

@ChristianS

yes, I use images from uploaded folder in the same way - sometimes you need images for pages/blog posts that just make no sense in the main gallery, so I think that option to populate slideshow from uploaded folder can be useful - for example, to create promo-pictures for events or slides akin to presentation, this opens up possibilities..

You can unpublish them so they are not in the "main gallery". Using a specific album has lots of benefits as you have ways to enter titles, descriptions and also ordering them (unless you use a dynamic album of course).

We generally consider the albums as a kind of "media library" and will do so in the future. That just to note ;-)

But of course do as it fits your purpose!

Hi @acrylian,

let's step back for one moment. The paradigm theme is able to show images from every album you select in the setup. Unfortunately, and there is no config option to do different, the theme always shows images aligned top/left. Or lets say, starting at pixel 0. On the other hand, the area, that show the image has a diffenrent ratio, a little bit like 32:9. Therefore, and of course it is because of my motives, the planes are cut, or only parts are shown. Must of the slideshow images will show the sky :-( That does look professional.

Because of that, I created a series of pictures, that can be used by the slide show, to work around that alignment topic. But those pictures are just a few special ones, I want to hide from my gallery. At that moment, I figured out, that images from unpublished folders can't be shown.

At the moment, I help myself here, with burrying down the special folder in my Gallery ;-)

Sure, but what you describe is a matter of the theme and slideshow setup – respectively the CSS setup – and not really if the images are from an album or not. More flexibility you always have with custom made stuff, themes are always a litte general naturally.

Anyways, whatever works for you!

@ChristianS

On the other hand, the area, that show the image has a diffenrent ratio, a little bit like 32:9. Therefore, and of course it is because of my motives, the planes are cut, or only parts are shown.

If presentation is your major concern - it can be easily adjusted via custom CSS rules for the slideshow.

How-to:

1. In /css folder of Paradigm theme files there is a file "! rename-to-custom.css", it's empty out of the box.

2. You add custom CSS rules to override current CSS, then rename it to "custom.css" and upload to Paradigm theme /css folder on your server

3. To adjust height of your slideshow to better suit aspect ratio of your photos you need to specify height for 2 classes:

   .carousel-inner {
   height: 200px;
   }

   .carousel-inner > .item {
   height: 200px;
   }

You might have to play around with actual number for height, to find a right fit.

This file "custom.css" is already linked in the theme and won't be overwritten by future theme updates, so it can be used to completely change theme look and feel.

@kuzzzma: Still the file is in danger on upgrade if FTP clients may overwrite the whole theme folder content on upload. You could implement a "real" custom.css file within and outside the theme easily:

Plain draft is this:

 $theme = getCurrentTheme();
 $css = SERVERPATH . '/' . THEMEFOLDER . '/' . internalToFilesystem($theme) . '/custom.css';
 if (file_exists($css)) {
    $css = WEBPATH . '/' . THEMEFOLDER . '/' . $theme . '/custom.css';
  } else {
    $css = WEBPATH . '/' . ZENFOLDER . '/' . PLUGIN_FOLDER . '/yourthemename/custom.css';
    }
  // load the custom.css after the standard css

Some plugins use similar but actually we have an simple API for that:

 $customcss_filepath = getPlugin('custom.css', true, true);
 // load the custom.css here after the standard css

https://docs.zenphoto.org/1.6.2/namespaces/default.html#function_getPlugin

The name getPlugin() is quite misleading as it actually means getPluginFile - just realized that and will rename it with the next release – and refers to any file within a plugin or the current theme (2nd parameter) as themes are technically a special kind of plugin.