Thanks Simbul! I sure understand life getting in the way. I only just got back to work on my site after the holiday hiatus! It sure is hard to get back in the groove when you've been away from it for a bit. I look forward to seeing what's to come with ZenphotoPress.

Hey Simbul, I just tried ZenphotoPress (ZPP) 1.3.1 with the latest WordPress (WP) 2.3.3 release and the latest nightly build of Zenphoto (ZP) (as of 02/25/2008) and let me say it is fantastic. Thank you very much for a fine product. Now for a request:

Is there any way for you to do the following in a future version of ZPP?

1. Keep the existing feature set in tact. The image insertion capabilities are truly cool.

2. Offer in addition to 1. above, the option of embedding the entire ZP main page (with all its albums, subalbums and images) into a pre-existing WP page while [i]retaining the appearance of the current WP theme[/i]. People can then designate this WP page as [b]Gallery[/b] (say) and when they click on it they see their good old ZP gallery in all its Zen-like splendor.

This way ZP and WP are truly integrated for anyone wishing to use WP as a content management system. And the ZP gallery is themed exactly like the WP theme so if we were to change the WP theme, the presentation of the ZP gallery [i]within[/i] WP changes to match that theme.

What do you think?

Well, that was what the plugin I was inspired from actually did.
The problem is, such an integration would sadly require much more time than the ordinary ZenphotoPress development (which itself requires a lot of time, which I don't have ).
The main problems I see are:

1. It would take time and effort to develop
2. More importantly, it would require an awful amount of time for maintainance, because of its strong integration with both Zenphoto and Wordpress.

Bottom line: I'd love to do it, but frankly I can't see it coming in the near future

Dear Simbul. Of course I understand completely especially your point #2 which is truly mind boggling i.e. everytime [i]either[/i] ZP or WP change, ZPP potentially has to change too. I suppose we could throw the field open to talented volunteers...oh well. But thank you again for a great plugin.

I just released ZenphotoPress 1.4.
It is a pretty important update, since it introduces Wordpress 2.5 compatibility.

So, if you upgraded your blog to 2.5, be sure to upgrade ZenhpotoPress too

jayray999, there is an integration out there:
http://tech.einaregilsson.com/2007/08/06/integrating-zenphoto-into-wordpress/

You can also do a search for "zenphoto wordpress integration" in the forums.

@Simbul: As ever, thanks.

@darrellm: Thanks for the suggestion. Actually the first link (http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2006/06/integrating-zenphoto-into-wordpress/) posted on the page you cite, in conjuction with Simbul's great ZenPhotoPress plugin are together the best resource for anyone attempting WP integration with ZP.

You are absolutely right, jayray999. Thanks for the clarification.
The reason I used that link is because that's the only one I had at the time. I figured you will see the original link on it. Yes, I also use Zenphotopress - mainly as a backend image management. Great stuff!

Hello,

I just upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 and Zen Press 1.4... i've this error message:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare prefix() (previously declared in /homepages/1/d139468600/htdocs/sarahetsebastien/wp-content/plugins/zen-recent-comments.php:75) in /homepages/1/d139468600/htdocs/sarahetsebastien/zenphoto/zp-core/functions-db.php on line 135.

Do you know why ?

This problem seems related to the zen-recent-comments plugin, more than ZenphotoPress.
It can, however, be triggered by the way ZenphotoPress includes Zenphoto functions.
If this is the case, I'm afraid there's no easy solution short of uninstalling one of the plugins.

I installed the plugin and it works fine. When I tried it with video file I couldn't get it to show the video thumbnail in the post. All I got was just a link to the video page. Is it possible to get the thumbnail (videoDefault.png) on the post?

is there a way to write the "button code" so that the zp button shows up in another wysiwyg editor for wordpress? I use wysiwygPro, which writes standard based xhtml and would love to use them both (zenphoto press and wysiwygPro), thanks.

Hi Simbul - thanks for a great plugin.

Do you have any plans to support sub-albums by allowing a hierarchical album selection?

Right now I have my albums divided up by year, with each year having a number of sub-albums. Sometimes the sub-albums are named the same from one year to the next. When this happens there's no way to distinguish one sub-album from the other in the Select Album dropdown.

Thanks.

I decided to have a go at coding a hierarchical album selection for myself.

It's my first time coding in PHP so I don't know how good the code is...but at least it seems to be working.

I modified the classes.php file in [docroot]/wp-content/plugins/zenphotopress/tinymce, replaced the existing 'print_albums' function and added a new 'buildAlbumOptionsList' function. Here's the code in case anyone is interested:

`

/**

 * Print the album selection menu

 * @param $selected ID of the selected album (if any)

 */

function print_albums($selected) {

    ?>

@demonGeek: you're right. Support for subalbums in ZenphotoPress has been patchy at best.
My plan was to start working on interface issues such as that one as soon as I can release ZenphotoPress 1.5.
I'm glad you found a way to fix it yourself, anyway

Hi I have the same problem as Grasland on 2008-02-07: "when writing a new post and pressing the ZP button, an empty popup appears."

I checked the suggestions Simbul, but clearing the cache doesn't help. It happens in all browsers

Can anyone offer a suggestion on how I can fix this?

WP:2.6
ZP:1.1.7
ZPP:1.4

hi I get the same problem as pfff with zenphotopress installed on a windows server:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare __() (previously declared in D:\Domains\gunnigunni.dk\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-includes\l10n.php:116) in D:\Domains\gunnigunni.dk\wwwroot\zenphoto\zp-core\lib-gettext\gettext.inc on line 127

anyidea how to fix this? do ineed to change a function name or something?

Tomix, please try the nightly.

I'm back, to bring you a brand new version of ZenphotoPress!

ZenphotoPress 1.5 introduces some big changes:

• A widget (or badge, if you prefer) to show images from albums
• A shortcode to automatically add a gallery in your posts (just like the [gallery] shortcode introduced in Wordpress 2.5)
• A new backend, which at last decouples Wordpress from Zenphoto. This means all the PHP conflicts on name declarations (just like the ones in the previous posts) should be a thing of the past

So, as usual, here is the ZenphotoPress webpage. Happy downloading

Woo! I'm going to try it out right now, thanks! It's looking awesome based on screenshots.