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1 Apr 17, 2006 01:22    

I just got a b2evo account and it's great, lots of editable features, but I was disapointed to see there's no area to add an image slideshow or picture gallery like in most other weblogs.

Does anyone know where we can get a plugin that would easily allow us to upload images and make these galleries/slideshows, or how to make one?

I'm sure someone has thought of this already, having no pictures on a personal log is kinda defeating the purpose a bit at the moment.

thanks a bunch

your fellow blogger ~~~

2 Apr 17, 2006 19:41

It's on my to-do list but don't expect it anytime soon.

3 Apr 17, 2006 20:28

I use [url=http://gallery.menalto.com]Menalto Gallery[/url] for photo galleries and slideshows. It's very powerful. No plugin for a blogging app is ever going to match it as far as I'm concerned. But there's no reason that you can't use b2evolution and Gallery together. I post pictures from my gallery on my blog and even have a random image block in my blog sidebar that displays a random image from my gallery. And of course, you can always link to slideshows or albums from a blog post.

I'm sure there are apps that try to do both at the same time, but using the right tool for each job makes more sense to me.

But, just so you know, b2evolution does allow you to upload images and put the code for displaying that image right into a blog post. And the upcoming version is going to have a built in filemanager, which will make it that much better.

4 Apr 17, 2006 20:40

What i was going to do was something like a gallery in the panels.
So something similiar to the gallery things in msn spaces.
I did something like this for a client;
http://www.babysculptures.com.au/ (visibile in the top left if your a firefox user)

But also i want to work on making images and posts work better together, like a photoblog, it's really a goal of mine.

I dunno i havent really thought about it yet, still got other projects that I need to work on.

And can you say wether your server supports the gd library here;
http://forums.b2evolution.net//viewtopic.php?p=35627#35627

So gallery plugins can do things such as thumbnails for images.

- Taking a look at menalto now

7 May 15, 2006 16:33

balupton wrote:

Exams are happening soon so thats why it'll take a while to finalize.

Exams!?! What kind of lightweight cares about his own future when MILLIONS of people are waiting for a groovy hack? WHERE ARE YOUR PRIORITIES!!!

;)

(see that big yellow star? it means I'm a chicken)

8 May 15, 2006 16:45

Hahaha, EdB your a classic ;) Don't put your balls in a not :)

If you want i can make a few changes and release it as a pre-release.
And then the community can finish it, if i don't get around to it first...

(My star is bigger than yours.....)


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