I’m dying to get a gallery online. I have tons of pictures that I’d love to put up, but I can’t find an adequate software package that has the capabilities and feature-set that I’d like. I’m probably being too picky, but I need something stable, something secure, and most importantly: something that integrates with my modified theme in WordPress. I’m s…l…o…w…l…y adding new sections to the site, and the most important thing to me is uniformity. I want everything to look like it’s from the same place, and belongs together.
So I’m open to any suggestions. I played with Gallery2 and the WordPress Gallery2 plugin, but that thing had soooo much bloat that I had to get rid of it. Which, by the way, is NOT an easy task to do. I couldn’t just delete files from my ftp client, because I kept getting “permission denied” errors. Permission denied?! I’m the friggin’ administrator! Anyway, I solved that problem and moved on to the next candidates, the Simple PHP Gallery (for WordPress), and its cousin, the Enhanced Simply PHP Gallery (for WordPress). Luckily, there are some decent tutorials on integrating either of those with your WordPress site, but I only really succeeded with the non-enhanced SPG.
So here I am, sort of stuck. I’ve searched various forums and seen the options, and I’m somewhat disappointed. Not that I could do any better, but…well, I’m still looking. Bear with me!
August 22nd, 2005 at 2:45 pm
Actually I noticed today that I was getting errors on one of the gallery pages. It had been working before. It made me nervous because I wondered if it was because of a security break, but I doubt it was. The error has been fixed. I can understand your concern about security.
I really haven’t tested to see if the instructions will work with the non-enhanced SPG. I know they probably won’t work out-of-the-box; it will require some significant tweaking.
By all means, let me know if you run into any problems. I’d be more than happy to help; it could be a learning experience for both of us.
June 21st, 2005 at 5:41 pm
Awesome! Thanks for the heads-up, Dan. I’m still doing some testing on a few of the gallery alternatives, but any tips to help me achieve seamless integration will definitely help sway me towards a particular package.
The only question I have right now is if these instructions could easily be adapted to the non-enhanced Simple Photo Gallery. I’m a little paranoid regarding security and having too many scripts with access to delete or modify files, so I don’t really need the administrative enhancements in eSPG. If it’s not as easy to adapt, I can try hacking the code to remove those features (which is probably more dangerous
). If you don’t mind, I’ll give you a shout if I run into any snags. Thanks again!
June 21st, 2005 at 4:03 pm
If you want to integrate eSPG into WordPress, try my tuturial here.