We are proud to announce the release of the our new photo gallery. Click on the "Photos" link at the top to visit it. I’ve been looking around for a good photo gallery system for a while and ended up going with Gallery for the photo gallery and then I used WPG2 to embed it into our WordPress blog. It was more work than I expected to get it working and looking how I wanted it, but it was well worth it. There are still a few things here and there that I’d still like to tweak, but that’s what makes it fun.
Some of the features that you might notice are the ability to rate pictures and albums(1-5 stars) and also to leave comments. You can also view an album as a slideshow. If you register as a user on our blog, then when you sign in that user will also be used in our gallery when you add comments. Hopefully it is easy to use. If you have any suggestions on how to make it better or run into something that doesn’t work let me know.
The main reason for doing this though was to make it easier for us to add pictures to our website. Now we can just log in and upload pictures. They are automatically resized to save space on our web server and thumbnails are created. We can add titles, captions, and keywords, all of which are searchable. It is also easy to sort or rearrange pictures in an album. And lots more features but I’ll stop here so you can go enjoy the new photos.
Hey JR,
I know you and Jenny are watching a movie, so I won’t IM this one to you. I left a comment on the pirate pigs photo signed in as From the Lyons Den and you and I saw it, but the comment doesn’t seem to show up for everybody to see. Does that mean you have to approve comments before they go public or is it just hidden so only I see it or did I do something odd?
One more thing to fiddle with!!
LOL
Lisa
I almost dismissed your question until I realized what was probably going on, but first a little background. For comments on the blog I have it set so that I have to ‘moderate’ the first comment by a user and after that their comments are automatically approved. Although the photo gallery uses the the same user login as the blog, the photo gallery isn’t have that sophisticated. I have set the permissions to let guests (people who haven’t registered and logged in) to leave comments in the photo gallery but it doesn’t let me moderate comments. It also doesn’t allow for unregistered users to leave their name with their comments which would be a nice feature.
Oh, but I suppose I should answer your question. The reason you didn’t see your comment may have been one of two reasons. One would be that when you logged out, you may have just needed to refresh your browser to reload the page from the web server, instead of a local cached version of the page. More likely is that the website itself needed to update it’s cache. When you load a page on our site, the web server is actually executing code to build the page; it isn’t just a static page. I’ve have some options set in the photo gallery to cache certain information so that when you hit a page it doesn’t need to do as much work and can just give you the cached version of the page which is faster. So you were probably seeing the trade off using a cache to improve performance, although the thing to do would be to tweak it so that the action of leaving a comment would invalidate the cache to be dumped and rebuilt. Short answer: Try it again later and you’ll probably see the comments. They were visible when I wasn’t logged in and checked.
I could have just given you the short answer to begin with but I figured I’d punish you for your blatant misuse of Internet slang. For everyone else, LOL is "laugh out loud", not "lots of love". Misuse of that ranks right up there in my list of pet peeves as leaving fingerprints on my computer screen.