ZenPhoto

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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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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IMPORTANT: Beginning with this release we are skipping testing for PHP 4 and MySQL 4. We do all developing on PHP 5.2+ and MySQL 5.0+. We will not deliberately invalidate using these older versions; however, we are are not able to test on the older software versions anymore due to a lack of resources. Thanks for understanding. Let us know on the forum and bugtracker if serious problems surface.

• Imagick support [kagutsuchi - very special thanks for helping us getting this finally done!]
• Plugins
  • Menu manager [sbillard, acrylian]
  • Quota manager [sbillard]
  • Image upload limiter [acrylian - partly sponsored by saundstu]
  • Hitcounter (now a plugin) [sbillard]
  • Tags from album [acrylian]
  • seo_locale [sbillard]
    
  • Sitemap extended [acrylian, based on previous work by Tenzer and timo, with contribution by Blue Dragonfly]
  • jCarousel thumb nav [acrylian]
  • Zenpage improvement [acrylian, sbillard - Thanks to Blue Dragonfly]
  • TinyMCE updated to 3.3.2
  • Flowplayer3 playlist: Mousewheel support re-added [acrylian]
  • Google maps updated [sbillard]
  • Wordpress importer (Admin utility) [acrylian]
  • User_mailing_list (Admin utility) [acrylian]
  • Now unsupported:
    • flvplayer
    • Trackback
    • filter example plugins
    • flag_thumbnail
    • comment_filter
    • effenberger_effects
• Individual image watermarks [sbillard]
• Cache improvements [sbillard]
• GPS data extraction improvements [sbillard]
• Zenpage password protection [sbillard]
• User rights improvements and fixes [sbillard]
• lib-auth.php objectified to allow custom authentication implementations [sbillard]
• RSS album password leak fixed [acrylian]
• Improvements and some design changes for Zenpage theme, plus jCarousel thumb nav and menu manager support [acrylian]
• jQuery reverted to 1.4.1 because 1.4.2 broke our backend sorting script / jQuery UI 1.8 update [sbillard, acrylian]
• Proper XML/XHTML escaping for JavaScript code (especially required by Webkit based browsers) [sbillard, acrylian]
• Many minor fixes and improvements

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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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Gdodinet release his third Zenphoto theme. This is like the second one Zinenaboxpacity heavily JavaScript driven. Take a look 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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We have scheduled the 1.3.0 release for May 27th. There are some significant new capabilities in this release including, but not limited to:

• Imagick support
• Custom menu creation
• Disk quota management
• Limitations on the number of images that may be uploaded to an album
• Tags from album
• Sitemap
• seo_locale
• jCarousel thumb navigation
• Individual image watermarks
• Zenpage password protection
• Custom authentication implementations are now supported
• Wordpress importer (Admin utility)

You do not have to wait for the 1.3.0 release to start experiencing these features. Download the Nightly build and see what is there. There is still time for improvements to these features. Try them out and help us to sort out possible bugs. Let us know on the bugtracker or the forum.

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The automatic generation has been fixed now so they are available as usual again.

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Some may have noticed that we had some server downtime a few days ago. Seems we still face some server issues because of that. One is that currently no newer nightly builds are availabe. The last one is from April 15th…

So if you want or must try the development stream after 1.2.9 official please use the svn for now. We hope to get that fixed soon.

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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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