Adding Album name in sidebar block

dkabal

Joined: 2007-11-02
Posts: 13
Posted: Tue, 2008-12-02 17:39

Again, I must start out with a thank you! WPG2 rocks. This forum rocks, and has always provided me with the best, prompt support for any issues I've had. I don't really have an issue, just want to do some customization here.

How would I go about a) customizing WPG2 to add the Album name to the sidebar block and, b) requesting this as a possible new feature?

Background: I normally don't name the photos I upload (i.e. they're IMG_XXX), so the only "identification" is the Album name, which would help a lot, in addition to the Date which I already display.

Thanks,
Dave

 
dkabal

Joined: 2007-11-02
Posts: 13
Posted: Mon, 2009-01-26 18:11

**BUMP** I'd like to add the Album name under the image block in the sidebar. Perhaps this would be considered as a new feature?

 
ozgreg
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Posted: Tue, 2009-01-27 01:01

Actually WPG2 already supports this, turn on title in the WPG2 Options - Sidebar Block

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dkabal

Joined: 2007-11-02
Posts: 13
Posted: Tue, 2009-01-27 20:00

That's the title of the IMAGE, I'm looking to add the Album name the image is in.

Thanks,
Dave

 
dkabal

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Posts: 13
Posted: Thu, 2009-01-29 01:47

Actually, I should have explained myself better, upon trying out various options.

I am using RANDOM IMAGE to display a random image anywhere in my Gallery. I would like to have the Album name that image belongs to displayed (perhaps as a separate option checkbox?), instead of the TITLE of the image itself.

I realize that if you select RANDOM ALBUM, the HIGHLIGHT image for a RANDOM ALBUM will be displayed, and that Album name will appear if TITLE is selected, but that's not what I'm looking for.

Now that I've rambled on enough, can it be done?

Thanks,
Dave

 
ozgreg
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Posted: Fri, 2009-01-30 01:36

Yes it could be done but not until we move away from utilising the Gallery2 Imageblock which is what WPG2 is currently using to pull images out of G2 as the imageblock just does not support this functionality.

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dkabal

Joined: 2007-11-02
Posts: 13
Posted: Fri, 2009-01-30 01:50

Thanks for your attention to this!

Is there some kind of changes I should push for in G2 to make this happen? It's kind of interesting that this functionality works great for Random Album, but doesn't work at all for Random Image... (i.e., somehow Title is passed as Album title for Random Album, but Image Title for Random Image, meaning G2 ImageBlock COULD be modified to make this work, no?)

Ah well. Again, thanks for all your help, Greg...

Cheers,
Dave

 
ozgreg
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Posted: Fri, 2009-01-30 03:15

The trouble is Gallery2 development has ended and the G2 development team have now moved onto Gallery3. I have yet to work out what I want to now do with the WPG2 plugin considering Gallery3 is going to be a different beast than Gallery2.

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