Announcements
New theming tutorial available May 12th, 2008
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.
A guide to our functions guide April 15th, 2008
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
Zenphoto Plugin Architecture documented. April 14th, 2008
The next release of Zenphoto supports plugins for adding functionality. See the architecture document.
Dreamhost offers zenphoto as 1 click install! March 09th, 2008
We just learned that Dreamhost, one of the biggest hosts in the US, now offers zenphoto as a 1 click install option in favor of Gallery 2.
“And I guess that also explains why Gallery, the photo management software we offer as a one-click install is SO crazy confusing, slow, and horrible! I’ve looked at its source code, and the one thing I could not describe it as is short.
Which is why for our new EASY one-clicks, I’ve decided NOT to port Gallery over. Not even a little. INSTEAD, we’re giving “zenphoto” (notice the stylishly understated all-lowercase-ness) a try. It doesn’t allow you to do all the fancy-shmancy things Gallery does like sell your pictures or order prints, but it is super-simple to use to upload, organize, and view photos!”
We are a little proud of this, since Gallery is a well-tried program, too. And that “missing” feature we probably will get included, too. But, like all things, there is a downside: the zenphoto installation files are not within the users webspace, they are maintained by Dreamhost. This means two things, (1) no custom files including themes and (2) Dreamhost keeps zenphoto updated to the latest version without even having to ask.
For you Dreamhost users who want a little more customizability, or who want to upload files to their webspace via FTP, Zenphoto installs just fine the “normal way” under a standard Dreamhost account. Just download it from this site and follow the easy install instructions.
Read the complete text on the Dreamhost wiki: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/V10.2_February_2008
ZenPhoto 1.1.5 visualized March 03rd, 2008
If you ever wanted to know what goes on under the surface of your ZenPhoto gallery, take a look at this new and official Zenphoto diagram.
Version 1.1.5 Announcement February 29th, 2008
We are pleased to announce the second Zenphoto release of this month, version 1.1.5. This version brings a few major improvements and new features, as well as significantly improving the efficiency of Zenphoto. New features include Boolean expressions in searches, which allow you to do such things as “dogs | cats” and combine results for both, Dynamic Albums, which are a way to create an album out of a search phrase (or boolean combination of search terms), a long-requested feature for Multiple administrators with different rights or abilities.
With this release we’ve also achieved major performance improvements across the board (nearly 4x faster page load times for large albums, benchmark results coming soon), and improvements to the efficiency of the EXIF library and caching, resulting in snappier gallery browsing and an even faster Zenphoto than before.
Thanks to all who helped with this release, and everyone who tested the nightly builds and provided feedback.
Functions guide finally available January 04th, 2008
Nearly in time for the New Year we finally managed to get up a proper functions guide that now replaces the old improvised version on the Trac. It’s generated using PhpDoc. Currently it includes all template functions you can use for theming.You can reach it directly via http:www.zenphoto.org/documentation or via our user guide page.
Vote for your favorite feature! January 03rd, 2008
Since zenphoto relies heavily on its community, we have added a poll on our news section for you to vote what new features you would like to see in future versions of zenPhoto.
We only list feature requests that have tickets posted on the Trac. So if you want to add a feature request, that’s the place to say so. The features getting the most votes will be set on our priority list.
May the best feature win…:-)
Update: Sorry, the poll function is broken currently. We try to fix it soon.
Update #2: The poll is now fixed and working.