ZenPhoto

The Zenphoto team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.1.7. This release includes many bug fixes from 1.1.6, with improvements especially in the localization libraries and translations. See the full changelog post for more information.

We hope you continue to enjoy Zenphoto!

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• Translation support improved [sbillard, acrylian, trisweb]
  • French translation [fetard]
  • Dutch translation [Vincent]
  • Traditional Chinese translation [fatman]
  • German translation [acrylian]
• Tag Management [sbillard]
• Paging for image and comments admin pages [sbillard]
• New distributed plugins
  • dynamic-locale [sbillard]
  • flv_playlist [acrylian, sbillard]
  • GoogleCheckout [mammlouk, sbillard]
  • tag_suggest [acrylian, sbillard]
  • user_logout [sbillard]
• several bugfixes and improvements

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We have opened a group for translators to inform you if we for example plan a new release so that the translations need to be updated or similar things regarding translations. Please sign in here: http://groups.google.com/group/zenphoto-translate

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We’ve finally managed to implement localization for Zenphoto! Translation capability is now available in the 1.1.6 release. The current implementation requires the native gettext extension installed in the PHP on your server. We hope later to add a workaround for those without native gettext. But we believe (and hope) most servers will have gettext installed by default. There may be still some glitches, so we are dependend on you to report problems on our forums.

The first language available is German, since one of our developers is German. German will be a standard language and will be developer maintained. But of course any feedback about typos or other errors is appreciated.

Note to our German users: Die Übersetzung verwendet als Anrede das förmlichere “Sie”, welches mir passender auch für den professionellen Einsatz erschien, da ich es vorziehe, wenn mir Software mit einer gewissen Distanz begegnet. Wer hingegen das freundlichere “Du” bevorzugt, ist hiermit eingeladen eine dementsprechende Alternativübersetzung zu erstellen. Es ist genug Platz für zwei oder mehr Versionen (und Fehlerberichte sind natürlich auch willkommen…:-)) - Acrylian

And for all non-German speakers, so that no one feels excluded: The German translation uses are more distanced, polite form (”Sie”) to adress the user because this seemed more fitting especially if Zenphoto is used professionally. I personally prefer that software remains a little formal. Anyone who prefers the more friendly adress form (”Du”) is invited to submit an alternative translation. There is room for two or more versions (and of course bugreports are welcome, too…:-)) - Acrylian.

Of course we are not satisfied and want more. Many more, in fact the more the better! So you all are invited to provide translations. We have assembled a translation tutorial for you to explain a few things and make it easier. Please take the time to read it (even if you know how to work with gettext) to avoid unnecessary work! Thanks!

Go to the Translation Tutorial for more info.

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• Localization (beta) [acrylian, aitf311, sbillard]
• German translation [acrylian]
• Full size image protection improvements [sbillard]
• Plugin sytem including several default plugins [sbillard, acrylian]
• Slideshow (plugin) [acrylian, sbillard, special thanks to djdevine for the IE CSS positioning fix]
• Album themes (replace the Supergallery feature) [sbillard]
• Comment system improvements [sbillard, ulfben]
• Setup improvements [sbillard]
• RSS improvements [acrylian, fogoh]
• Tag improvements [sbillard]
• Support for MP3 and MP4 (video/audio) [sbillard, acrylian]
• Dynamic album improvements [sbillard]
• Watermark scaling [sbillard]
• Admin backend JS moved from prototype to jQuery [aitf311]
• Numerous bugfixes
• See full list on trac

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We finally managed to finish a new theming tutorial. Actually it is a largely updated version of the old and now defunc tutorial that GameDudeX wrote way back then. Please note that the tutorial refers to the nightly build foreshadowing the next official release. We hope it will help you all to make your own custom galleries.

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Sadly the update to Wordpress 2.5 broke the poll plugin we had installed to see what features gain the most interesst by you, our users. Additionally the author of that plugin does not support it anymore. We haven’t found a replacement yet. So for the time being the poll is removed.

Here are the last known poll results:

1. Move/Copy/Rename images and albums: 166
2. Internationalization & localization: 122
3. Automatic Image Rotating base on EXIF: 89
4. Automatic creation of Video thumbs (#331): 57
5. Visually select album thumbnails: 34
6. Edit Theme Files Within Admin (#133): 32
7. Create individual thumb crops for each image: 30
8. Geotag googlemap popup: 28
9. Select image size to view: 24
10. Support ImageMagick conversion: 22
11. Support Windows XMP in addition to the standard EXIF/IPTC metadata (#351): 9

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We have set up three videos that show the ease of use of ZenPhoto. You can watch the installation and upgrade process and take a tour through the admin backend.

ZenPhoto Demonstration Videos

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We have posted a short guide that hopefully will make it easier for you to work with our functions guide: How to read the Zenphoto functions guide

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The next release of Zenphoto supports plugins for adding functionality. See the architecture document.

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