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Vonkoba

Joined: 2008-06-20
Posts: 22

Posted: Sat, 2008-06-21 16:54

Hi everybody,
After fiddling around with this for a good deal of time I thought of just asking it here. I have the Gallery2 embedded to Wordpress and would like to know the following:

1) Is there a way to get rid of the Gallery Logo and most (or all) of the left navigation bar (I want to get rid or hide the "Add album", "Add album to cart"..."view slideshow" list)? It would also be nice if I could switch the "Gallery" text (just below the Gallery logo) to something more relevant for my site.

2) I have some flash movies, but they are played smaller than they should be, where can I fix the width & height?

I also thought I should add that the navigation bar displays different items under Firefox or IE7 (the bar shows less items when I open IE7 than when I open Firefox 3). I don't mind about this since I just want to get rid of that left bar, but maybe people should make sure their lists remains the same on these two browsers

Anyway, thanks a million for your help!

PS: My knowledge of coding is non existent, so if there is a simple solution I definitively want that one ;)
Charly

Vonkoba

Joined: 2008-06-20
Posts: 22

Posted: Sun, 2008-06-22 00:45

OK, I found it out after spending most of my Saturday on this
So for noobs like me, this is the way: I won't go over the complicated way that worked but made me have to reinstall everything again like three times. This is the simple path: All you have to do is deactivate the corresponding plugins (just go to Site Admin, then plugins, then deactivate the ones you don't want in the sidebar).
To enlarge the flash movies all you have to do is go to "edit animation" and from here go to the "animation size" tab, then add whatever dimensions you want.

I still have two questions though,
1) I tried to change the logo banner with the help shown at

http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:How_to_Add_Custom_Banner_or_Remove_Gallery_Logo

but I just couldn't find the "galleryLogo_sm.gif" image that the code is refering to. The only logo image I have is located in the "images" folder and it is called"gallery_logo.png"

I also couldn't find the third line it refers to in the "theme.tpl" file:
<a href="{g->url}"><img src="{g->url href="themes/croos/images/galleryLogo_sm.gif"}" width="107" height="48" alt=""/></a>

2) I would also appreciate it if someone could tell me how to change the text below the logo that says "Gallery" to something else...

Thanks!

Vonkoba

Joined: 2008-06-20
Posts: 22

Posted: Sun, 2008-06-22 23:31

OK, I also found out how to do these things. Just in case someone reads this, this is how:
to change the text is super easy, just go to Site Adming, then to "general" and you can write down whatever you want.
The problem I had with the images is that I was only looking under the "images" folder that corresponded to my theme (matrix). The "theme.tpl" file refers to the images that are located on gallery2/images (so it is above the themes folder). I think the easiest way to do it (at least the one that worked for me) is to make a copy of the Logo images, edit them as you want but keep their names and then move them inside a new folder as is describe on the "theme.tpl" file. You add a folder named "local" inside the "templates" folder. Inside here I placed a copy of the "theme.tpl" file and the modified images with the name "logo" You have to add this new address in the theme.tpl file, where it says "g->url href="
hope this helps anyone that was as confused as I was!

Vonkoba Joined: 2008-06-20 Posts: 22	Posted: Sat, 2008-06-21 16:54
	Hi everybody, After fiddling around with this for a good deal of time I thought of just asking it here. I have the Gallery2 embedded to Wordpress and would like to know the following: 1) Is there a way to get rid of the Gallery Logo and most (or all) of the left navigation bar (I want to get rid or hide the "Add album", "Add album to cart"..."view slideshow" list)? It would also be nice if I could switch the "Gallery" text (just below the Gallery logo) to something more relevant for my site. 2) I have some flash movies, but they are played smaller than they should be, where can I fix the width & height? I also thought I should add that the navigation bar displays different items under Firefox or IE7 (the bar shows less items when I open IE7 than when I open Firefox 3). I don't mind about this since I just want to get rid of that left bar, but maybe people should make sure their lists remains the same on these two browsers Anyway, thanks a million for your help! PS: My knowledge of coding is non existent, so if there is a simple solution I definitively want that one ;) Charly
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Vonkoba Joined: 2008-06-20 Posts: 22	Posted: Sun, 2008-06-22 00:45
	OK, I found it out after spending most of my Saturday on this So for noobs like me, this is the way: I won't go over the complicated way that worked but made me have to reinstall everything again like three times. This is the simple path: All you have to do is deactivate the corresponding plugins (just go to Site Admin, then plugins, then deactivate the ones you don't want in the sidebar). To enlarge the flash movies all you have to do is go to "edit animation" and from here go to the "animation size" tab, then add whatever dimensions you want. I still have two questions though, 1) I tried to change the logo banner with the help shown at http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:How_to_Add_Custom_Banner_or_Remove_Gallery_Logo but I just couldn't find the "galleryLogo_sm.gif" image that the code is refering to. The only logo image I have is located in the "images" folder and it is called"gallery_logo.png" I also couldn't find the third line it refers to in the "theme.tpl" file: <a href="{g->url}"><img src="{g->url href="themes/croos/images/galleryLogo_sm.gif"}" width="107" height="48" alt=""/></a> 2) I would also appreciate it if someone could tell me how to change the text below the logo that says "Gallery" to something else... Thanks!

Vonkoba Joined: 2008-06-20 Posts: 22	Posted: Sun, 2008-06-22 23:31
	OK, I also found out how to do these things. Just in case someone reads this, this is how: to change the text is super easy, just go to Site Adming, then to "general" and you can write down whatever you want. The problem I had with the images is that I was only looking under the "images" folder that corresponded to my theme (matrix). The "theme.tpl" file refers to the images that are located on gallery2/images (so it is above the themes folder). I think the easiest way to do it (at least the one that worked for me) is to make a copy of the Logo images, edit them as you want but keep their names and then move them inside a new folder as is describe on the "theme.tpl" file. You add a folder named "local" inside the "templates" folder. Inside here I placed a copy of the "theme.tpl" file and the modified images with the name "logo" You have to add this new address in the theme.tpl file, where it says "g->url href=" hope this helps anyone that was as confused as I was!

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