wordpress integration

jev

Hi

Can anyone please please please help on this subject.
I did an extensive research on the forum and asked questions. Most of the post say you need to modify "this" file so it does "that".

In some cases "this" is somwhat defined, but "that" is not defined at all.

I am not php or CSS guru, i just want to have ability to display for example thubnails of my photos as messages on wordpress to discuss those with users if the user clicks on thumnail they go to my smugmug website

For me this is an additional and important channel for users to reach to photos, get additional traffic and point users to my smugmug site to hopefully to purchase some photos. I think a lot of other users can use this type of functionality.

So if anyone can share their knowledge i would be most thankful.

Plugins like that are avaible for Flickr, but they are of no use to me or other smugmug users

Barb

jev wrote:

Hi

Can anyone please please please help on this subject.
I did an extensive research on the forum and asked questions. Most of the post say you need to modify "this" file so it does "that".

In some cases "this" is somwhat defined, but "that" is not defined at all.

I am not php or CSS guru, i just want to have ability to display for example thubnails of my photos as messages on wordpress to discuss those with users if the user clicks on thumnail they go to my smugmug website

For me this is an additional and important channel for users to reach to photos, get additional traffic and point users to my smugmug site to hopefully to purchase some photos. I think a lot of other users can use this type of functionality.

So if anyone can share their knowledge i would be most thankful.

Plugins like that are avaible for Flickr, but they are of no use to me or other smugmug users

You might want to check out this thread, "SmugPress" a Wordpress plugin for SmugMug

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=13066

jev

Barb

Thank you, but his is exactly the answer that i am NOT looking for
if you look at the tread you referring too, i posted questions 3 times there.

I don;t understand how to modify "some" files and make "some" changes in those files. I understand that people are busy and not necessarily have to answer my questions, that's why i am looking for someone that could share the knowledge for me and users like me that are not profficient with PHP.

So if someone can translate it into simple step by step how-to, or post a sample files, I would very much appriciate it.

Barb wrote:

You might want to check out this thread, "SmugPress" a Wordpress plugin for SmugMug

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=13066

Barb

jev wrote:

Barb

Thank you, but his is exactly the answer that i am NOT looking for
if you look at the tread you referring too, i posted questions 3 times there.

I don;t understand how to modify "some" files and make "some" changes in those files. I understand that people are busy and not necessarily have to answer my questions, that's why i am looking for someone that could share the knowledge for me and users like me that are not profficient with PHP.

So if someone can translate it into simple step by step how-to, or post a sample files, I would very much appriciate it.

Sorry, I didn't read through the thread and see that you had already posted there. I know that right now there isn't an "easy" way to incorporate into Wordpress. I know there is a lot of interest, and I'm sure there are folks here who can help you through. It's not me, however You may want to bump this thread again if no one else pops in with more definitive answers for you.

bham

jev wrote:

Hi

Can anyone please please please help on this subject.
I did an extensive research on the forum and asked questions. Most of the post say you need to modify "this" file so it does "that".

In some cases "this" is somwhat defined, but "that" is not defined at all.

I am not php or CSS guru, i just want to have ability to display for example thubnails of my photos as messages on wordpress to discuss those with users if the user clicks on thumnail they go to my smugmug website

For me this is an additional and important channel for users to reach to photos, get additional traffic and point users to my smugmug site to hopefully to purchase some photos. I think a lot of other users can use this type of functionality.

So if anyone can share their knowledge i would be most thankful.

Plugins like that are avaible for Flickr, but they are of no use to me or other smugmug users

Most of it depends on what wordpress allows. They may allow you to post an image or links, etc. I think it would serve you well to go to the smugmug customization and go to a section about html and get an general idea how to put a link in, post an image, and post an image with a link. Learning those 3 things should give you the knowledge to post them into wordpress. From my brief visit to their site this is all the knowledge that you would need to accomplish your goal.

Mike Lane

bham wrote:

Having no idea what wordpress is, but I am for discussion sake assuming it is a message board due to your reference of posting photos. You would want to put an image there (i.e. http://www.smugmug.com/photos/91297738-M.jpg) the image would show up but you could not click on it to go to your site. To do that would require much more code like this
<a href="http://www.snapsterfoto.com&quot; target="_blank">
<img border="0" src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/59347387-S.jpg&quot; align="left" width="100" height="24">
</a>

where the first part of the code tells where the link would take you, the second part tell what image to put there and the third give alignment and size.

wordpress is a blogging client ( http://wordpress.org/ ). Actually posting and linking images is (I'm guessing) not the problem - incidentally FWIW I personally wouldn't use the align or border property and make sure to close the img tag <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/deal.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" > What jev is asking for - I think - is some kind of wordpress plugin that will allow you to integrate your smugmug pictures in much the same way that flikr users can integrate pictures from flikr into their blogs.

Andy

jev wrote:

So if anyone can share their knowledge i would be most thankful.

So you'd like to be able to embed an image into your blog, yes? It can be as simple as using the easy share link, and paste the url into your blog entry as you are editing that:
http://www.smugmug.com/help/picture-sharing

-S works great for blogs, but you can also do any size:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/custom-photo-sizes

flyingdutchie

jev wrote:

Barb

Thank you, but his is exactly the answer that i am NOT looking for
if you look at the tread you referring too, i posted questions 3 times there.

I don;t understand how to modify "some" files and make "some" changes in those files. I understand that people are busy and not necessarily have to answer my questions, that's why i am looking for someone that could share the knowledge for me and users like me that are not profficient with PHP.

So if someone can translate it into simple step by step how-to, or post a sample files, I would very much appriciate it.

If you host your own Wordpress blog, instead of using a blogspot.com or wordpress.com account, then you need to know a little about PHP. You need to know a little about MySQL server as well, for example. Otherwise, installing these blog-servers can become very difficult or impossible (installing wordpress.org installation requires editing of PHP file(s) and setting up a MySQL database).

If you run your blog on wordpress.com, for example, there is no easy way to incorporate your own images easily, except by adding image-links manually with every post you create.

renstar

flyingdutchie wrote:

If you run your blog on wordpress.com, for example, there is no easy way to incorporate your own images easily, except by adding image-links manually with every post you create.

This is how I do things with my wordpress site and i have (full) access to the server it is running on. For displaying one or two images a day it really isnt that big a hassle. I mean, i could conceivably write something that automagically gives me the relevant html for the picture and link, but it just isnt worth it. Incidently, as Andy mentioned using the -S, i use the -M and have no problems fitting it in, though, I also made sure I chose/modified a wordpress theme that has the center column wide enough for the -M's.

I also found it to be fairly simple, following the help files, comments on dgrin, and with the firefox webdeveloper plugin, to make my smugmug site follow the same theme as wordpress so my site actually looks semi-integrated. You can see it at renstar.smugmug.com or russellhewett.com, be aware though, I havnt fixed a bug that can be atributed to IE (the header bar). If something like that is what you are looking for, it didnt take too long to get it set up.

-r

dogwood

another question
Do I need to purchase credits with Wordpress to adjust the width?

I find it cuts off my horizontals photos on the right side and I'd love to be able to use the same size horizontals as I post on SM.

Okay, I know this isn't really a SM related question-- but this is a thread I've been wondering about too-- I use Wordpress and link to my SM site-- does that count?

jev

Thank you for replies, but may be i am forumulating myself incorrectly

1) i have a standalone server running wordpress 2.x, with root acess to it
2) i have smugmug pro account, that has feeds for popular images, categories and so on
3) smugmug has an RSS feed feature for all those functions
4) wordpress in theory can import RSS feed as a message with link to smugmug
i.e. display thumbnail or medium format JPG in wordpress blog, so you can discuss t with users, then there is a message "if you click on image you can buy it", now when user clicks on it it goes to smugmug and user can purchase image. (all of this information is in smugmug RSS feed if i undersrtand it correctly)
5) I don;t want to paste links into wordpress messages, as smugmug can output RSS and wordpress can (???!!!) receive RSS and display it as messages that can be discussed in wordpress. There are flickr plugins available for that, so we know it is possible to do it.

questions is how do i integrate in my blog smugmug instread of flick (which is uselless to me for my current purposes)

I am really looking for some help for automation of smugmug RSS feed to be inserted into wordpress as messages with thumbnails in an automated manner.

My rational is, let's say if i have a blog, and discuss different issues there, and I have a pretty good traffic on my blog, by using RSS feeds and displaying images in the appropriate places I can promote my photo site and increase my sales

Smugmug is a great tool for photographers, wordpress is a great tool for content, both support RSS

renstar

jev wrote:

Thank you for replies, but may be i am forumulating myself incorrectly

1) i have a standalone server running wordpress 2.x, with root acess to it
2) i have smugmug pro account, that has feeds for popular images, categories and so on
3) smugmug has an RSS feed feature for all those functions
4) wordpress in theory can import RSS feed as a message with link to smugmug
i.e. display thumbnail or medium format JPG in wordpress blog, so you can discuss t with users, then there is a message "if you click on image you can buy it", now when user clicks on it it goes to smugmug and user can purchase image. (all of this information is in smugmug RSS feed if i undersrtand it correctly)
5) I don;t want to paste links into wordpress messages, as smugmug can output RSS and wordpress can (???!!!) receive RSS and display it as messages that can be discussed in wordpress. There are flickr plugins available for that, so we know it is possible to do it.

questions is how do i integrate in my blog smugmug instread of flick (which is uselless to me for my current purposes)

I am really looking for some help for automation of smugmug RSS feed to be inserted into wordpress as messages with thumbnails in an automated manner.

My rational is, let's say if i have a blog, and discuss different issues there, and I have a pretty good traffic on my blog, by using RSS feeds and displaying images in the appropriate places I can promote my photo site and increase my sales

Smugmug is a great tool for photographers, wordpress is a great tool for content, both support RSS

I see. I too looked for something like this for a long time but never had the time to hack it together. I'd be interested in the solution if you or anyone comes up with one.

Mike Lane

What I'd really like to have is something that would sit in the wordpress post editor that would allow you to upload images to your smugmug account and then would allow you to use them in a post right there. Currently there is a way to upload images that will sit on your host, but I've got all this SM bandwidth and storage space available, I may as well use it.

Yes, a gee whiz flikr-style wordpress integration would be nice, but a smugmug uploader built right into wordpress would be extra sweet

jev

Today i went though Flickr feature "blog it"

this is really cool. You need to specify you xmp.. something file and user name and password for your blog. The from Flickr page you can just click "Blog This Photo" and it magically appears in your blog as message, when you click on the photo it goes to Flickr page with this image.

Now if someone on smugmug team could implement such a feature it would also be great. Here is a sample post http://blog.artq.com/2006/08/29/infrared-central-park/

Very neat

atow

WP-SmugMug Plugin for WordPress
Everyone:

I just released WP-SmugMug, a plugin for WordPress and SmugMug today. Specify the RSS feed url for a SmugMug album in your post, and the plugin will display thumbnails and links at the end of the post content. The HTML and CSS is customizable in WordPress's admin section.

You can see examples of the plugin in action here:

http://www.tow.com/2006/12/14/erics-birthday-party/
http://www.tow.com/2006/12/13/trolley-dances/

Download the plugin from here:

http://www.tow.com/projects/wordpress/

Enjoy!

-adam