gdThumb version 1.0.16 is up

+ ADMIN: Added new option  “Animate thumbnail on hover” + Added event integration with RV Thumb Scroller + Corrected PayPal link for “Donate” link in admin area – Remove reference to jquery.ui.button.js in admin page – Added check for shared system variables to prevent conflict with other GD plugins and themes

“Share This” plugin has been published in Extensions Repository

Just another small plugin with large consequences 🙂 Purpose of the plugin is to add sharing options for your photos From screenshot you can see that 4 services are supported: * Facebook * Twitter * Pinterest * Google Plus Logic is currently very simple and there is no intend to provide any sort of click stats. Note: One of the areas behind the scene which may be interesting is the way content is integrated into the page You can compare GreyDragon integration based on trigger and data structure vs “normal” way where we have to guess page content and find place to insert content.

GreyDragon v.1.2.22 is now available

This is major release. please read about changes below. Version introduces concept of widgets for picture metadata area along with template anchor targets allowing more streamlined approach in adding and managing metadata tabs for picture pages. + Added Photo metadata tab targets in picture.tpl (see template for positioning): {*GD_META_ICO*}, {*GD_META_TXT*}, {*GD_META_CONTENT*} + Picture tab “classic” content moved into external templates picture_tab_ico.tpl, picture_tab_txt.tpl, picture_tab_content.tpl + Added support for gd_get_metadata content trigger You can add custom content for picture meta tabs Ex: add_event_handler(‘gd_get_metadata’, ‘my_get_tab_metadata’); function greydragon_get_tab_metadata($metadata) { return $metadata; } where each array element represents the tab $metadata[] = array( “id”         => unique id of the tab “icon_class” => class to be used to render icon tabs “title”    Read more…

GreyDragon theme v 1.1.20 is out

+ ADMIN: Added support for various Favicon types including Apple Touch + Added versioning for Theme settings for easier maintenance + Localization added for Admin Help area + Added support for %gallery_title% in header text/page banner – Fixed issue with root url associated with gallery logo was not referring to the sites root properly when installed as sub-folder

gdThumb v 1.0.15 is out

+ In Overlay Ex mode place “New Item” marker is placed in metadata area + Further and final improvement for file type markers in Overlay Ex mode. Now sensitive to file extensions. Supports image, video, music, pdf, doc, xls, ppt formats with associated markers. – Fixed issue when “big thumb” for video files become smaller than desired min size

Keeping CentOS with times – PHP 5.5

This is second article related to CentOS somewhat outdated default setup. I have previously discussed Steps to update MySQL to 5.5 and now its time to look at PHP Introduction If you run VPS or dedicated server with CentOS 6.x installed often you will find that default setup would include somewhat antiquated PHP and MySQL versions – 5.3 and 5.1 respectively. Unfortunate situation dictated by the fact that main distro package used in such environment does not include latest versions. If SSH and Linux management is allowed, it does not take long to bring environment up to date. Note: it is much easier to update packages right away once server is still fresh and there is not much other software Read more…