Your blog tie-in to your smugmug site is awesome. I just hooked up with wordpress (I was using blogspot... wordpress seems a lot better though) and will try to mess around this weekend (after taxes-- groan-- of course) to see if I can do something similar.
I'm continually amazed at what kind of hacks people here come up with-- and like many others-- I'd be very interested in tips or code that helps implement the wordpress/smugmug concept.
- I installed WordPress on my 'own' host (server hosted by SpeakEasy).
- I used the WordPress' default theme (look and feel).
- Then i modified some of the PHP and the CSS files a little to make it look like my smugmug-site (sand in the background, colors, etc.) and i made a copy of my smugmug-header (logo/photocrawl) and put it into the WordPress header.
- For importing pics from smugmug (changes in galleries, etc.) i use the /wp-admin/import-rss.php on my WordPress installation. You need to modify it by providing it with the RSS-url (just copy the RSS feed URL as provided by smugmug) and I added a secret code so that no-one else can go to this URL and execute the import-rss.php scripts.
- I installed WordPress on my 'own' host (server hosted by SpeakEasy).
- I used the WordPress' default theme (look and feel).
- Then i modified some of the PHP and the CSS files a little to make it look like my smugmug-site (sand in the background, colors, etc.) and i made a copy of my smugmug-header (logo/photocrawl) and put it into the WordPress header.
- For importing pics from smugmug (changes in galleries, etc.) i use the /wp-admin/import-rss.php on my WordPress installation. You need to modify it by providing it with the RSS-url (just copy the RSS feed URL as provided by smugmug) and I added a secret code so that no-one else can go to this URL and execute the import-rss.php scripts.
thank you
Thanks for sharing. This may be a bit more than I want to tackle this weekend-- but it's a fantastic idea and much cooler than what I have set-up right now.
WordPress
I decided to set up a blog and try out WordPress yesterday, and of course they have been down most of today and still down @ the moment
Quote from their site...
Hello folks. We’re doing a little unplanned emergency maintainance to some systems that were causing problems over the past few weeks. Your blog will be unavailable for a few more minutes while we get everything situated. Relax and enjoy this Easter Sunday morning, and know that everybunny at WordPress.com is working their butts off to get your blog back online. — Matt and the team
Any updates on that ?
Can you please post some code ?
I have the code now. I will be trying it over the weekend and will be reporting any issues to alan. Once we both sync up this will be released under GPL
I have the code now. I will be trying it over the weekend and will be reporting any issues to alan. Once we both sync up this will be released under GPL
Is there anything going on here or is this a dead issue?
did not work as expected. It actually uploads images to smugmug.
So I shifted to one page view on smugmug with every post a img src link to the photo I want to post. All you need is a good theme, and things work like a charm, check out http://tanveer.in/photoblog
Is there anything going on here or is this a dead issue?
If you installed WordPress on your own server, take a look at post #33 (http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=289363&postcount=33). For me, it works like a charm. I import changes on my galleries into my blog (WordPress installation) and sometimes edit the imported posts to make them look better or to add some extra text.
Was the code of the original plug-in ever released?
The import-rss solution works if you want to import photos as blog posts, true, but I'm looking for a bit more integration than that. I might end up writing something myself, but if there's code out there already I'd love to take a look at it as a starting point.
Also looking for Wordpress Plugin
Hello everyone! I just joined DigitalGrin so I could reply to this thread. I would LOVE an easy plugin way to show random or recent photos from my smugmug galleries on my wordpress blog. I don't want to have to pick specific photos ahead - I want it to work more like the recent photos RSS feed. I tried that - but it just gave links to the recent photos. I want the thumbnail or tiny size.
PS - see the banner at the top of the DigitalGrin forum? The one that changes everytime you load the page. I want something like that with the photos coming from my smugmug galleries... and clickable back to the gallery from which they came. Thanks!
Hello everyone! I just joined DigitalGrin so I could reply to this thread. I would LOVE an easy plugin way to show random or recent photos from my smugmug galleries on my wordpress blog. I don't want to have to pick specific photos ahead - I want it to work more like the recent photos RSS feed. I tried that - but it just gave links to the recent photos. I want the thumbnail or tiny size.
PS - see the banner at the top of the DigitalGrin forum? The one that changes everytime you load the page. I want something like that with the photos coming from my smugmug galleries... and clickable back to the gallery from which they came. Thanks!
Jeanne, you mean a rotating header image? On my blog, I use a script I found, the The Random Image Rotator by Automatic Labs. Problem is that you would need to import your images and store them in a folder and drop the script in that folder because I don't think you can get the script to link to an outside source for your images (script absolutely has to reside in the image folder to work).
Maybe a PHP guru can come in this thread and post some code you could use...
Jeanne, you mean a rotating header image? On my blog, I use a script I found, the The Random Image Rotator by Automatic Labs. Problem is that you would need to import your images and store them in a folder and drop the script in that folder because I don't think you can get the script to link to an outside source for your images (script absolutely has to reside in the image folder to work).
Maybe a PHP guru can come in this thread and post some code you could use...
Not exactly - but close.
Basically I want to be able to put a vertical stack of thumbnails on a sidebar in wordpress. Pretty little tempting pics that encourage folks to click on them and go to my galleries at smugmug. I know I can do that by hand.. my big dream is a plugin that can use the recent photo RSS feed to display the pics dynamically.
I guess if it doesn't exist I will try and figure out the logic myself - but would so much rather discovery that this has already been solved by someone else. I also will try hunting for a generic rss feed/image plugin of some sort - but the trick would be to get it to dynamically link back to the proper gallery.
Not exactly - but close.
Basically I want to be able to put a vertical stack of thumbnails on a sidebar in wordpress. Pretty little tempting pics that encourage folks to click on them and go to my galleries at smugmug. I know I can do that by hand.. my big dream is a plugin that can use the recent photo RSS feed to display the pics dynamically.
I guess if it doesn't exist I will try and figure out the logic myself - but would so much rather discovery that this has already been solved by someone else. I also will try hunting for a generic rss feed/image plugin of some sort - but the trick would be to get it to dynamically link back to the proper gallery.
It would be very cool indeed if we could put a SmugMug badge in our sidebars just like Flickr offers its users. If it can be done with Flickr, it can be done with SmugMug for sure.
Not exactly - but close.
Basically I want to be able to put a vertical stack of thumbnails on a sidebar in wordpress. Pretty little tempting pics that encourage folks to click on them and go to my galleries at smugmug. I know I can do that by hand.. my big dream is a plugin that can use the recent photo RSS feed to display the pics dynamically.
I guess if it doesn't exist I will try and figure out the logic myself - but would so much rather discovery that this has already been solved by someone else. I also will try hunting for a generic rss feed/image plugin of some sort - but the trick would be to get it to dynamically link back to the proper gallery.
Please tell me the results of your efforts if you use this.
Gareth-
Neat! I will have to play with this this weekend if I can make some time.
In a perfect world I would set this up such that it could be encapsulated in a Wordpress widget and give you some sort of control panel option from within Wordpress to refresh the retrieval as you like. Of course, I don't know how to do any of that (yet) - but I suspect I will be able to sort it out.
I will DEFINITELY let you know if/when I work it out.
Neat! I will have to play with this this weekend if I can make some time.
In a perfect world I would set this up such that it could be encapsulated in a Wordpress widget and give you some sort of control panel option from within Wordpress to refresh the retrieval as you like. Of course, I don't know how to do any of that (yet) - but I suspect I will be able to sort it out.
I will DEFINITELY let you know if/when I work it out.
Jeanne, I will also try to make time to look into that.
I don't think you can have the updates be done automatically from inside wordpress though, based on other plugins I've seen you will probably have to add a cron job.
I hope this is apparent to you. There is an animation that goes on: one of the pictures (random) is bigger (fills four squares) then it grows smaller and it gets back into its own little square.
As the screenshot was taken, one of the images was integrating its own square. It gives you the code when you click on the link first link I gave you, if you have a Flickr account. It's javascript I think?
Edited to add:
DOH!!! *head hits desk*
I completely forgot! You can see the badge in action on an old blog of mine right here, in the blog's sidebar: http://macheadcase.blogspot.com/.
Interesting option using Ad-Rotator
So.. I tried an experiment with a plugin called Ad-Rotator<!--more-->. It will take any text or basic HTML and rotate which one is shown (you separate each bit with < ! - - more - - > without the spaces).
See http://www.spellboundblog.com and reload a few times to see different images on my sidebar. Definitely not automatic in terms of picking new photos.... but gives a nice sense of changing images that can be easily changed without uploading images onto the server where wordpress is. I may also try to play with the Lightbox plugin - but I am torn about showing the photos large in place - or taking the opportunity to bring the person to my smugmug gallery.
I am happy with this answer for now - but will try and play with the more automated options if I get some time. Thought I would share this option in case anyone else here wants to try.
I use a similar 'rotator' on my blog-site. It is a scaled down version of the one i use on my smugmug-site.
I wrote it my self. Here is the main code as found on my blog. You can use it as you like and modify it to fit your blog:
Go to my blog (blog.antonspaans.com), and do 'View Source'. Look for the DIV elements that have the ids ml_1, ml_2, ml_3 and ml_4.
The left-most DIV has id ml_4 and is invisible (it pre-loads the image so that you won't see a delay in loading the image).
Then three visible DIVs follow: ml_3, ml_2 and ml_1.
This is the javascript code that determines which images are shown. It does so by writing out a STYLE element assigning background images to the above DIVs:
var g_logoImgs = new Array();
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "32759999-Th.jpg"; // Bell Lady
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "539999-Th.jpg"; // Downtown Statue
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "14919999-Th.jpg"; // Hyannis Boat
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "18679999-Th.jpg"; // Hancock
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "29769999-Th.jpg"; // Girls downtown
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "29769999-Th.jpg"; // Sleeping couple
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "4179999-Th.jpg"; // Cops on bikes
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "4179999-Th.jpg"; // Shopping cart
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "17819999-Th.jpg"; // Sunset Charles;
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "17819999-Th.jpg"; // Comm Ave. Statue
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "29769999-Th.jpg"; // North End bikers
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "22179999-Th.jpg"; // France Gites
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "22179999-Th.jpg"; // France watertap.
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "23629999-Th.jpg"; // 3 brothers
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "21459999-Th.jpg"; // Flowers 1
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "21459999-Th.jpg"; // Flowers 2
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "23489999-Th.jpg"; // Lente
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "21359999-Th-1.jpg"; // JamSession.
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "21789999-Th.jpg"; // A'dam bike
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "9909999-Th.jpg"; // Portugal
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "9909999-Th.jpg"; // Aveiro
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "36209999-Th.jpg"; // BBQ NLBorrels
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "32759999-Th.jpg"; // Kermit on biker
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "6729999-Th.jpg"; // Blink 182
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "15559999-Th.jpg"; // 2 cops
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "15559999-Th.jpg"; // T Bruschi
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "38969999-Th.jpg"; // Elizabeth Hurley
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "20009999-Th.jpg"; // Marathon 2005
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "20009999-Th.jpg"; // Marathon 2005
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "17909999-Th.jpg"; // De Cordova
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "9019999-Th.jpg"; // New York
g_logoImgs[g_logoImgs.length] = "9019999-Th.jpg"; // Cristina Yotham
var g_rotateCntr;
var g_imgBase = "[URL="http://flyingdutchie.smugmug.com/photos/"]http://flyingdutchie.smugmug.com/photos/[/URL]";
function doRotate()
{
var aLen = g_logoImgs.length;
var idx = ((new Date()).getTime()) / 100;
g_rotateCntr = Math.round(idx) % aLen;
var wrStr = "";
wrStr += ('<'+'style type="text/css">');
for (var i = 0; i < 4; i++)
{
var urlImg = "url("+g_imgBase+g_logoImgs[(i+g_rotateCntr)%aLen]+")";
var imgID = "ml_"+(i+1);
wrStr += ("#"+imgID+" { background-image: "+urlImg+"; } ");
}
wrStr += ("<"+"/style>");
document.writeln(wrStr);
}
doRotate();
note: the above code may be incorrect. DGrin tries to interpret HTML tags (anything that starts with '<'), even inside [ CODE ] sections... <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/ne_nau.gif" border="0" alt="" >
note: the above code may be incorrect. DGrin tries to interpret HTML tags (anything that starts with '<'), even inside [ CODE ] sections... <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/ne_nau.gif" border="0" alt="" >
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Thanks
http://www.artq.com
http://artq.smugmug.com
- I installed WordPress on my 'own' host (server hosted by SpeakEasy).
- I used the WordPress' default theme (look and feel).
- Then i modified some of the PHP and the CSS files a little to make it look like my smugmug-site (sand in the background, colors, etc.) and i made a copy of my smugmug-header (logo/photocrawl) and put it into the WordPress header.
- For importing pics from smugmug (changes in galleries, etc.) i use the /wp-admin/import-rss.php on my WordPress installation. You need to modify it by providing it with the RSS-url (just copy the RSS feed URL as provided by smugmug) and I added a secret code so that no-one else can go to this URL and execute the import-rss.php scripts.
That's it
When I hear the earth will melt into the sun,
in two billion years,
all I can think is:
"Will that be on a Monday?"
==========================
http://www.streetsofboston.com
http://blog.antonspaans.com
I will try to set it up
http://www.artq.com
http://artq.smugmug.com
Thanks for sharing. This may be a bit more than I want to tackle this weekend-- but it's a fantastic idea and much cooler than what I have set-up right now.
Portland, Oregon Photographer Pete Springer
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I decided to set up a blog and try out WordPress yesterday, and of course they have been down most of today and still down @ the moment
Quote from their site...
Hello folks. We’re doing a little unplanned emergency maintainance to some systems that were causing problems over the past few weeks. Your blog will be unavailable for a few more minutes while we get everything situated. Relax and enjoy this Easter Sunday morning, and know that everybunny at WordPress.com is working their butts off to get your blog back online. — Matt and the team
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Can you please post some code ?
http://www.artq.com
http://artq.smugmug.com
FB:https://www.facebook.com/TanveersPhotography
Site :http://www.tanveer.in
Blog :http://tsk1979.livejournal.com
http://www.artq.com
http://artq.smugmug.com
Seb
Is there anything going on here or is this a dead issue?
did not work as expected. It actually uploads images to smugmug.
So I shifted to one page view on smugmug with every post a img src link to the photo I want to post. All you need is a good theme, and things work like a charm, check out http://tanveer.in/photoblog
FB:https://www.facebook.com/TanveersPhotography
Site :http://www.tanveer.in
Blog :http://tsk1979.livejournal.com
If you installed WordPress on your own server, take a look at post #33 (http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=289363&postcount=33). For me, it works like a charm. I import changes on my galleries into my blog (WordPress installation) and sometimes edit the imported posts to make them look better or to add some extra text.
When I hear the earth will melt into the sun,
in two billion years,
all I can think is:
"Will that be on a Monday?"
==========================
http://www.streetsofboston.com
http://blog.antonspaans.com
The import-rss solution works if you want to import photos as blog posts, true, but I'm looking for a bit more integration than that. I might end up writing something myself, but if there's code out there already I'd love to take a look at it as a starting point.
Hello everyone! I just joined DigitalGrin so I could reply to this thread. I would LOVE an easy plugin way to show random or recent photos from my smugmug galleries on my wordpress blog. I don't want to have to pick specific photos ahead - I want it to work more like the recent photos RSS feed. I tried that - but it just gave links to the recent photos. I want the thumbnail or tiny size.
What do you all think?
Thanks!
Jeanne
http://www.spellboundphoto.com
http://www.spellboundblog.com
PS - see the banner at the top of the DigitalGrin forum? The one that changes everytime you load the page. I want something like that with the photos coming from my smugmug galleries... and clickable back to the gallery from which they came. Thanks!
Jeanne, you mean a rotating header image? On my blog, I use a script I found, the The Random Image Rotator by Automatic Labs. Problem is that you would need to import your images and store them in a folder and drop the script in that folder because I don't think you can get the script to link to an outside source for your images (script absolutely has to reside in the image folder to work).
Maybe a PHP guru can come in this thread and post some code you could use...
Basically I want to be able to put a vertical stack of thumbnails on a sidebar in wordpress. Pretty little tempting pics that encourage folks to click on them and go to my galleries at smugmug. I know I can do that by hand.. my big dream is a plugin that can use the recent photo RSS feed to display the pics dynamically.
I guess if it doesn't exist I will try and figure out the logic myself - but would so much rather discovery that this has already been solved by someone else. I also will try hunting for a generic rss feed/image plugin of some sort - but the trick would be to get it to dynamically link back to the proper gallery.
Thanks for the ideas!
Jeanne
http://www.spellboundphoto.com
http://www.spellboundblog.com
It would be very cool indeed if we could put a SmugMug badge in our sidebars just like Flickr offers its users. If it can be done with Flickr, it can be done with SmugMug for sure.
It should be pretty easy to write some xsl to convert the rss feed to what you want. I might hack on it this weekend, see if I can come up with a way.
http://www.garethlewin.com/smugmug/
Please tell me the results of your efforts if you use this.
Gareth-
Neat! I will have to play with this this weekend if I can make some time.
In a perfect world I would set this up such that it could be encapsulated in a Wordpress widget and give you some sort of control panel option from within Wordpress to refresh the retrieval as you like. Of course, I don't know how to do any of that (yet) - but I suspect I will be able to sort it out.
I will DEFINITELY let you know if/when I work it out.
Thanks!
Jeanne
http://www.spellboundblog.com
http://www.spellboundphoto.com
Jeanne, I will also try to make time to look into that.
I don't think you can have the updates be done automatically from inside wordpress though, based on other plugins I've seen you will probably have to add a cron job.
I am not much of a CSS/PHP guru but will try to look into what you posted this weekend to see. Thanks a lot, gareth!
I need to see an example of the flash badge, but what I did should be doable in flash, I just don't know any flash.
I hope this is apparent to you. There is an animation that goes on: one of the pictures (random) is bigger (fills four squares) then it grows smaller and it gets back into its own little square.
As the screenshot was taken, one of the images was integrating its own square. It gives you the code when you click on the link first link I gave you, if you have a Flickr account. It's javascript I think?
Edited to add:
DOH!!! *head hits desk*
I completely forgot! You can see the badge in action on an old blog of mine right here, in the blog's sidebar: http://macheadcase.blogspot.com/.
So.. I tried an experiment with a plugin called Ad-Rotator<!--more-->. It will take any text or basic HTML and rotate which one is shown (you separate each bit with < ! - - more - - > without the spaces).
See http://www.spellboundblog.com and reload a few times to see different images on my sidebar. Definitely not automatic in terms of picking new photos.... but gives a nice sense of changing images that can be easily changed without uploading images onto the server where wordpress is. I may also try to play with the Lightbox plugin - but I am torn about showing the photos large in place - or taking the opportunity to bring the person to my smugmug gallery.
I am happy with this answer for now - but will try and play with the more automated options if I get some time. Thought I would share this option in case anyone else here wants to try.
Good luck everyone!
Jeanne
http://www.spellboundblog.com
http://www.spellboundphoto.com
I wrote it my self. Here is the main code as found on my blog. You can use it as you like and modify it to fit your blog:
Go to my blog (blog.antonspaans.com), and do 'View Source'. Look for the DIV elements that have the ids ml_1, ml_2, ml_3 and ml_4.
The left-most DIV has id ml_4 and is invisible (it pre-loads the image so that you won't see a delay in loading the image).
Then three visible DIVs follow: ml_3, ml_2 and ml_1.
This is the javascript code that determines which images are shown. It does so by writing out a STYLE element assigning background images to the above DIVs:
note: the above code may be incorrect. DGrin tries to interpret HTML tags (anything that starts with '<'), even inside [ CODE ] sections... <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/ne_nau.gif" border="0" alt="" >
When I hear the earth will melt into the sun,
in two billion years,
all I can think is:
"Will that be on a Monday?"
==========================
http://www.streetsofboston.com
http://blog.antonspaans.com
It doesn't do that in the customization room <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/thumb.gif" border="0" alt="" >
http://photos.mikelanestudios.com/