ZenPhoto

Yeah, you read correctly. Zenphoto has been around for five years now. We can’t quite believe it ourselves and are glad that we managed the important 1.3 release for Zenphoto’s birthday.

Let us take a quick look at how it all started:

On April 24, 2005 Zenphoto’s original developer, Tristan Harward, posted the ambitious idea of “Reinventing the photo album” on his blog trisweb.com.

The very first announcement already with name and logo appeared on May 27th, 2005. We consider this as the “birth” of Zenphoto, that is why we wanted to release 1.3 on this date. Take your time and read the PDF of the specifications posted there. Much of it we have now!

The first 0.1 preview was released on June 4th, 2005 and on April 25th, 2006 Zenphoto 1.0 beta gets an honorable mention on the Web 2.0 awards. Take a look at the old Zenphoto admin backend here.

2006-2007 Zenphoto saw a quite active development and its community grew with forum, bugtracker and website. We have assembled a collection of screenshots of the old site here.

We of course don’t want to bore with listing them all. You can still read the old development posts on http://www.trisweb.com/archives/category/zenphoto/. The changelog can also be viewed on zenphoto.org.

However, after the 1.0.8.2 release development got in a kind of hiatus, so that in mid 2007 the community started the so called “community build” that incorporated many of the community features into the 1.0.8.2 release. This eventually lead to the founding of a new core development team which then released the long awaited 1.1 version.

This small but effective development team still runs Zenphoto with the welcome help of the community. On to the hopefully next five years! If you like leave a testimonial on the anniversary forum thread.

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Hucste has released this plugin to enable vistors switch themes on your site:
http://zenphoto.dev.stephane-huc.net/pages/SwitcherThemes-Plugin-EN

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Micheall has created a “facebook like button” plugin. Check it out here. While there you might also want to take a look at his updated zenTwitter plugin.

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Titou has just released this new plugin which preloads images via JavaScript for faster single image view browsing. The project page is currently in French only but meanwhile take a look at this thread for more info.

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kevinsk made this plugin to allow import of images or videos to Zenphoto from e-mail attachments. More info about it here.

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Cristue developed a the filter_rotation_lossless filter plugin that allows lossless JPEG rotation if your server has support for jpegtran. More info and download.

Altert has taken over the older Zenphoto single sign-on plugin that was originall developed by misterbrandt and updated it for the recent Zenphoto and Wordpress version. This plugin allows auto log in/in with Zenphoto if you log in/out to Wordpress. More info and download.

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Michaell has created some more Facebook plugins that now join the zenFBlike plugin we recently already posted about in a set of Facebook plugins now called the zenFB suite. The new additions are:

• zenFBComments
• zenFBRecommend
• zenFBActivity

As he notes he has more planned for the future.

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New plugins and tools from the net:

• Zenphoto Gallery by akerbos: A Wordpress plugin that allows to use Zenphoto albums in WordPress posts. More info and download
• Dokuwiki-Zenphoto by falstaff84: A Dokuwiki plug in which synchronizes the Dokuwiki user database with Zenphoto’s user database. More info and download
• Google analytics plugin 2.0 update by j916: More information and download

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A new grey scale theme based on the themes default and M9 by theWholeLifeToLearn.

More info and download.

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Gdodinet release his third Zenphoto theme. This is like the second one Zinenaboxpacity heavily JavaScript driven. Take a look here.

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