Converting from Coppermine Gallery?

dreimer

Joined: 2013-07-25
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Posted: Fri, 2013-07-26 02:56

The Gallery3 install via Softaculous took only 10 minutes vs 1-3 hours for Cmp which must be installed manually.

My site has 125 albums and 30,000+ photos.

1. I have multiple categories of albums. How do I do similar?
2. Is there any template that I can control the number of columns and rows?

Thanks for any advice or suggestions...Doug ^_^

 
floridave
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Posted: Fri, 2013-07-26 15:05

1. use the server add method to add the existing structure from CM.
2. The default wind theme will adjust to its fixed width the number of colums and there is a theme setting for rows.
you could try a different theme that is not fixed width like the wide wind or others that will allow for more flexible fluid control. Thumb size will also affect the number of columns.

Dave

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dreimer

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Posted: Fri, 2013-07-26 19:25
Quote:
1. use the server add method to add the existing structure from CM.
2. The default wind theme will adjust to its fixed width the number of colums and there is a theme setting for rows.
you could try a different theme that is not fixed width like the wide wind or others that will allow for more flexible fluid control.

1. cannot find any doc on "Add Path" and tried every combo that I can think of and always get "This directory is not readable by the webserver"
2. installed wide wind as the default theme and nothing changes, it has no admin panel so how does one get more columns than wind?
 
floridave
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Posted: Sun, 2013-07-28 22:46

http://codex.galleryproject.org/Gallery3:Modules:serveradd#Using_ServerAdd

The wide wind theme is not a fixed width of the wind theme, got a URL to show the behaviour?

Dave
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dreimer

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Posted: Mon, 2013-07-29 02:07

Site currently uses wide wind theme:
http://www.thai-nl.com/gallery3/
 
floridave
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Posted: Mon, 2013-07-29 04:24

You don't have any content on the sidebar. This theme as well as the wind theme was designed with sidebar content in mind. I think that you might be able to fix that with CSS. I just moved so I don't have my computer set up yet ( posed this with my tablet ) so your on your own making CSS changes or theme code modifications to see what needs to be donee or a few days.

Dave
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dreimer

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Posted: Mon, 2013-07-29 13:12

OK, will wait to hear back.
 
floridave
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Posted: Wed, 2013-07-31 00:21

Does adding:

#g-sidebar {
display: none;
}
#g-content {
width: 100%!important;
}

to the CSS file of the theme you are using work?

Dave
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dreimer

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Posted: Wed, 2013-07-31 09:06

Hi Dave,
It has gone from 4 columns to 6.
It still leaves room for the right sidebar, which I do not need.
Thanks and let me know your suggestions on 8+ columns.
Cheers... Doug
 
dreimer

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Posted: Wed, 2013-07-31 13:02
dreimer wrote:
Quote:
1. use the server add method to add the existing structure from CM.

1. cannot find any doc on "Add Path" and tried every combo that I can think of and always get "This directory is not readable by the webserver"

Can you suggest an example?
 
punctuation

Joined: 2012-12-11
Posts: 37
Posted: Thu, 2013-08-01 06:49

/home/my-username-at-hosting-company/public_html/my-site/my-photos/my-albums

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