ZenPhoto

Gdodinet has just released this heavily JS/AJAX powered theme. You find more info about it on its demo site.

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Nick Chapman has released a tool/widget to display Photo RSS/Atom feeds on other websites. It started first as a Zenphoto specific tool but can be used for other services like Flickr, too. Take a look yourself.

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Note: This is of course an April Fool’s joke..:-)

We have long thought about this and we don’t do it lightheartedly but we will not provide the free and extensive support we have provided in the past anymore. Therefore we will close down the public forum by the end of this month.

Instead we will provide paid support only for users who sign in for monthly subscriptions. We are following the trend of paid content as exemplified by formerly free websites of newspapers like the London Times.

We appreciate the positive feedback of our users. However donations have become less and less over the last year while the traffic due to the success of Zenphoto raises our server costs constantly. Of course, there is also the hours we spend developing Zenphoto that are currently unrequited. We feel that this change is in line with what the “free software definition” says:

“‘Free software’ is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of ‘free’ as in ‘free speech,’ not as in ‘free beer.’”

We hope you can understand that we have to do this to be able to further develope the best gallery CMS out there for many years to come. Zenphoto itself of course will still be downloadable for free.

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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.

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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.

More info and download

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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

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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”.

You can download it here.

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• 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]
• 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

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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/

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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.

More information and download

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