News
Drag and drop sorting issue in Zenphoto 1.2.9 March 15th, 2010
Sadly we just found out that the update to jQuery 1.4.2 breaks our drag and drop sorting for albums and Zenpage pages. However, the fix is rather easy. Just replace the jquery.js within zp-core/js/jquery.js with the jQuery 1.4.1 release. Tonight’s nightly build will also contain this revertion.
The reason is probably that we rely on an older nested tree sortable script using the jQuery UI predecessor Interface. Except for this issue it is still working great. We looked at some newer scripts but we have not found any replacement that is as easy and convenient to adapt. We would be open for suggestions though.
Third party theme: silhouette March 07th, 2010
AlexWilson released this theme using his self developed jQuery Silhouette plugin which seems to be a kind of jCarousel variant. It takes a list of images and turns it into a horizontal scrolling gallery.
Third party plugin: Image markup generator March 07th, 2010
Our user wongm has released this plugin that automatically creates links to a image so you can paste them into forum posts, other websites, etc. More info and download
New plugin: image_rotate_gd March 01st, 2010
This plugin provides a substitute to image rotation functionality if the GD libary on your server lacks support for it.
This plugin is unsupported and provided “as is”.
Zenphoto 1.2.9 March 01st, 2010
- pclzip.lib updated to current version [sbillard]
- Backend and frontend HTML validation fixes [sbillard, acrylian]
- Nested album backend sorting [sbillard, acrylian]
- Latest three news articles from zenphoto.org on backend overview page [sbillard, acrylian]
- Update of default JS libary jQuery to 1.4.2 with jQuery UI 1.7.2 [sbillard, acrylian]
- Sorting improvements [sbillard]
- Default cropping improvements (uses the law of thirds now) [sbillard]
- RSS now works with https [sbillard, acrylian]
- New RSS mode “AlbumsRSSCollection” (Latest (sub)albums from within specific album) [acrylian]
- EXIF fixes [sbillard]
- Dynamic album improvements [sbillard]
- Colorbox replaces Thickbox as default “box” JS script [acrylian]
- User management improvements [sbillard]
- Setup improvements [sbillard]
- Interlace option for resized images [sbillard]
- Zenpage-default theme renamed to just Zenpage theme
- Plugins
- Zenpage plugin improvements
- Custom thumb cropping for CombiNews mode [acrylian]
- New CombiNews mode: Latest images by album [acrylian]
- Sort order and direction parameter for next_news() loop(“title” or “date” descending or ascending) [acrylian]
- Flowplayer3 plugin: Content does not autoplay regardless if disabled anymore [acrylian]
- Zenpage plugin improvements
- Translations included
- Traditional Chinese/Simplified Chinese [fatman]
- French [fetard]
- Italian [iacchi]
- Dutch [fretzl]
- Polish [mironb]
- Serbian [JovianT]
- Spanish - General [mikeque,C32]
- Swedish [pischla]
- Galician [anxobotana]
- Japanese [momo-i]
- German [acrylian]
- Lots of minor fixes and improvements. Full list
Object model framework tutorial published February 22nd, 2010
As some of you know Zenphoto features also a quite flexible object model framework that advanced users can use besides the standard theme functions.We now have published a short tutorial about it.
Read more on http://www.zenphoto.org/2010/02/zenphotos-object-model-framework/
Third party theme: zpGalleriffic February 18th, 2010
www.blueskywebcreations.com have just release another theme. This one again comes with support for the CMS plugin Zenpage and uses the nice jQuery script Galleriffic.
Note: This theme is for the coming 1.2.9 release of Zenphoto and therefore requires the nightly build to run.
New plugin: flag_thumb_as_new February 03rd, 2010
This new plugin lets you flag thumbnails on your site as new either using an image/icon or plain text CSS overlay. Although developed by the official team it will not be included in the official release package. You can download it on our extensions section.
Colorbox replaces Thickbox February 01st, 2010
Zenphoto used the jQuery Thickbox script as default “box” script for quite some time. Since Thickbox has been abandoned by its developer and the coming Zenphoto 1.2.9 will feature the brand new jQuery 1.4 Thickbox will be replaced by the Colorbox script.
So if you use a customized standard theme and included the Thickbox script as often told by us from zp-core/js you should now update your theme to either use the Thickbox from elsewhere or the new Colorbox. The standard themes — especially the Zenpage theme — have already been updated for tonight’s nightly build.
3rd party plugin: Zenonfly January 18th, 2010
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.