ZenPhoto

The first release candidate for Zenphoto 1.2.8 is now available for download and testing from our download page. Please note that we have taken down the official 1.2.7 release as we feel the RC is more stable. This mainly because of the recent quite major bug discovery.

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• Major bugfix for accidentally deleted image descriptions when refreshing meta data [sbillard]
• Search and tags for Zenpage pages and news articles [sbillard]
• Plugins:
  • Image_album_statistics plugin: first image link option [acrylian]
• Themes
  • Zenpage search support in Efferscence+ [sbillard]
  • Zenpage search and tags support in Zenpage-default [acrylian]
  • Lots of minor bugfixes and improvements

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It just has been discovered that under certain circumstances all of your image descriptions could be cleared if you refresh the meta data. This could happen if you have Exif/IPTC data in the image but not a description. The same applies to the title.

We therefore strongly advise anyone to backup the database before any update to 1.2.7 and before any meta data refresh. You could of course also try the nightly build where this issue has been fixed.

Since we are a small team we have only one developement stream that is under continous developement so that we can’t provide a bugfix release inbetween. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.

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www.blueskywebcreations.com have just release an new theme. It features some nice jQuery effects like a dropdown menu and Colorbox slideshow. Also a special feature is that zpfocus is built for using the Zenpage CMS plugin. This makes it the third theme to feature Zenpage support. Of course it can be used without, too.

Visit the site for more information on it, to see it in action and for download of course

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• Admin_general_data filters [sbillard]
• Strong Password enforcement option [sbillard]
• Admin multifile upload improvements [sbillard]
• Optionally exclude script pages from the gallery password protection [sbillard]
• Move/Copy/Rename improvements [sbillard]
• Admin backend layout improvements [acrylian, sbillard]
• Setup improvements [sbillard]
• Database quick reference PDF included [acrylian]
• RSS improvements, static feed caching and https server protocol option [acrylian]
• Removes deprecated functions to a new plugin [sbillard]
• Theme-customizable password form [sbillard]
• Allow font selection for the captcha characters [sbillard]
• Gallery description added as standard to all included themes [acrylian]
• Individual default thumbs for multimedia files [acrylian]
• User rights refinements [sbillard]
• Plugins
  • Implements filters for the register_user so that plugins can trap the form and the acceptance and verification of a user [sbillard]
  • seoFriendlyURL_js filter for customizing the js character filtering [sbillard]
  • xmpMetadata plugin [sbillard]
  • Integrate register_user plugin with user_groups plugin allowing assignment of a group/template to a newly verified user [sbillard]
  • user_logout plugin renamed to user_login_out [sbillard]
  • FLV Player plugin update to v4.5. Support for v3 is now abandoned. Note: The actual files for the player plugin are no longer included in the release due to license considerations [acrylian, sbillard]
  • filter admin_utilities_buttons [sbillard]
  • effenberger_effects plugin (image HTML filters demo) [sbillard]
  • slideshow plugin improvements and fixes for flash mode [acrylian]
  • flag_thumbnail plugin to mark protected and unpublished images or albums [sbillard]
  • flowplayer3/flowplayer3_playlist plugins improvements [acrylian]
  • static html cache now deletes outdated files before recreating [acrylian]
  • Updates google maps plugin for Google Maps API version 2 [sbillard]
  • print_album_menu: New parameter point to the first image instead the album page plus some backend options [acrylian, sbillard]
  • trackback comment plugin [acrylian, sbillard]
  • PHPMailer class plugin (POP & SMTP athorization) (PHP5 only!) [sbillard]
  • Zenpage improvements [acrylian, sbillard]
  • paged_thumbs_nav plugin now based on a class for more layout flexibility [acrylian, sbillard]
  • image_album_statistics: New parameter to call album stats from a specific album’s subalbums [acrylian]
    
• Implements separation of Zenphoto standard items from third party/user produced items [sbillard]
  • No items other than official Zenphoto scripts and other files should reside in the zp-core folders.
  • Third party/user Watermarks, Plugins, and other scripts should be placed in the root ‘plugins’ folder (Watermarks in a subfolder named ‘watermarks’, scripts such as a lib-auth.php replacement in a folder named ‘alt’, captcha and spamfilters in the appropriate subfolders.)
  • Content from the root plugins folder is intelligently merged with similar Zenphoto content. Zenphoto files have precedence over root plugin one, but of course it is always best to maintain unique names.
• Translations updates (Thanks to our translators!) (view)
• NOTE: Flowplayer plugin (using v2) no longer included
• NOTE: Example theme no longer included as a standard theme

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Our user kagutsuchi has taken over the task to add support for the graphics libary ImageMagick using the Imagick PHP extension that has been long open. We really do appreaciate the help as the ticket for that has been open for a long time

However, there are still  some problems as it does not run everywhere as expected. If you want to help testing please visit the forum thread for more info and also post feedback and comments there.

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Our user mikinoo just released a new theme: “m9″, a nice,  “simple and minimalistic theme” that is using some advanced CSS3 features for recent browsers. Take a look, his site is also the demo.

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In case you have not noted we have done some restructuring on the site, mainly on the extensions section.

We have divided the former “collection” posts that contained several extensions into separate posts now. This way you can easier search using the categories and the newly introduced tags for extensions to find what extension you are looking for.

For the now slightly increased number of entries we have also installed a better page navigation.

Also some stuff has been moved to the user guide section as it was not really about exensions but more tutorials. These are just these:

• One “Zenphoto into Wordpress integration tutorial” entry that was part of the former entry Wordpress Tools & Plugins.
• The zenphoto as a “plugin” way to use Zenphoto functions outside of Zenphoto that was part of the also former hacks, utilities & addons entry.

It is sadly not avoidable that this may break some links from older forum posts but we hope that you will find the new extensions section much more convenient.

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It’s for displaying Twitter feeds on Zenphoto pages and based based on code BertSimons originally started and has been turned into a plugin by Micheall. It includes also twitpic updates.

Note that this plugin requires a current nightly build or svn version.

You find more info and the download on its plugin project page.

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Our user hucste has taken over developement of the older zenPaypal plugin that has been abandoned quite some time ago by its original developer Ebrahim Ezzy (Nimbuz) who moved on to his eZenphoto package which sadly is still no plugin.

And hucste has just released an update with code improvements and some new features like a cart. Read more about on its project page: http://zenphoto.dev.stephane-huc.net/pages/ZenPaypal-Plugin-EN

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