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Piwigo First Plugin – gdThumb

I have posted my first plugin for Piwigo – gdThumb. Apply card style to album or image thumbs. Plugin was inspired by GThumb+ but adds new options: Apply style to album or image thumbs or both Thumbnails max height Margin between thumbnails Number of photos per page Double the size of the first thumbnail Cache the big thumbnails (recommended) Scale thumbnails: resize/crop/square Title Display Mode: Overlay Top/Overlay Top (Static)/Overlay Bottom/Overlay Bottom (Static)/Hide Meta Data Display Mode

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

Gallery 3 Project migration – progress 08/10

Another week and I was able to do some work to move theme and some other things forward New version of the theme is up for grabs at usual place  – please see official announcement Changes in this build – alpha 4: Admin: New option “Remove Piwigo Generator Meta Tag” which can be used along with “Show Site Credits” Admin: Added support to allow “lower case text” be optional Use of custom.css file is extended to take advantage of its flexibility and prevent dynamic inline CSS where applicable Changes to Info/Warning/Error messages colors to better match the theme Admin: More translation support added for theme options Admin: Fixed issue when some default settings were not properly persisted causing improper application Read more

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

Gallery 3 Project migration – progress 08/01

New version of the GD Theme for PW is up for grabs It is the large update as it affects core code. Major theme code refactoring. Theme logic is now “classified” Bootstrap CSS support introduced to alleviate browser dependencies. Theme’s CSS is moved out of theme.css to ensure proper application Admin: fixed issue with quotes not stored properly in various fields Admin: Added option to enable debug mode Admin: Added option to reset theme settings Admin: Removed option to suppress noindex for Robots (managed from PW config.inc) Admin: Added check for required PW version and plugins Admin: Theme styling is extended to Theme’s admin area Take a look at admin area look-and-feel and let me know what you think Edit: as Read more

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

Samsung Galaxy 2 10.1 failed to register the device

This is somewhat obsolete as device is just 2 year old, but just got Samsung Galaxy 2 10.1 for testing. Still looks nice, but is in desperate need to update OS to the latest (from 4.1.1). Samsung now offers 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) as most up-to-date version which is still nice considering. Happily trying to perform Software update gave me a failure to register the device… Very nice… very descriptive… what to do next? Try this first – check your device clock. If it is behind (this device still cannot maintain time automatically), you simply need to adjust the time and try registration and update again. This time you most likely would succeed.

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

Gallery 3 Project migration – progress 07/28

I have updated GD drop with alpha 2. Main goal is to further progress with admin section and learn more of PW infrastructure. This release does include one major change – Root Page support. While you still need to use Additional Pages plugin to serve the root page, options and layout now can be populated from within GD theme. In order to enable this feature, simply enable AP plugin and create empty home page, give it a name and check “Replace your gallery’s homepage“. Once saved now you can go into GD admin area and Enable Root Page support, specify parameters and save. At that point content of Home page would be populated using specified parameters. Enjoy

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

Gallery 3 Project migration – progress 07/23

While having late evening tea I want to share the progress made with GD Theme. This is the first Alpha (download link). To replicate look and feel of my test site you would need the following plugins from Piwigo site: Additional Pages – needed for root page support Extended Descriptions – allows embedding slideshows and building custom pages GThumb+ – nice thumbs layout Plugins can be installed from within Piwigo admin area. Theme would need to be manually unpacked and copied to themes folder. It is barebones version with only one colorpack – slateblue I do not plan to support embedded framepacks at this time but instead take approach of GThumb+ plugin – once installed, it customizes how thumbs are styled and constructed. PS: for some Read more

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago