Comments on: Integrating Zenphoto and Wordpress

By: nate

nate — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:45:45 +0000

Danielle-
Try out the plugin called kpicasa. Zenphoto is a big mess of code that is painful to update and manage. With kpicasa, you upload photos on gmail after logging in, so you don’t have anything extra to install other than the plugin. Follow the kpicasa installation instructions. Let me know if you have any other questions.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:43:21 +0000

Hi, I’m just starting to build a website for my business, and on’ a friend’s recommendation I am trying out wordpress (which I’ve used for blogs but nothing else so far), however I haven’t been able to find a good way to create nice galleries. Why do you recommend using Picassa over zenphoto? How to you integrate Picassa galleries into a wordpress page? Thanks for helping out a rookie.
- Danielle

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:36:03 +0000

Interesting. I’ll take a look at it.

Thanks for telling us about kpicassa.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:20:16 +0000

Nate,

No problem. Let me know if you have questions. It’s easy, but there are some trial-and-error loops I had to go through to set this up. Mostly HTML stuff to tweak the look/feel of my wordpress frontend. I also had to play with the password stuff, before I found a way to make it work inside zenphoto.

By: nate

nate — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:49:07 +0000

I am now using the kpicasa gallery plugin with the google picasa photo software, which I have found is everything I wanted in a gallery. The problem with the previous zenphoto solution is that is doesn’t place the whole gallery into a page, which is what I wanted. The problem with my solution is that I didn’t have a completely static wordpress theme (I liked to change things) and so I didn’t want to have to manage the zenphoto theme to look like a changing wordpress one. The blog post solution will work if you have a theme that you don’t change very often, or have a way of automatically updating it based on database stored css or something.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:04:23 +0000

Sounds Easy, I will try it out. Thanks Stuart.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:32:37 +0000

Odd. After reading this, integration sounds complicated.

If we assume you already have a zenphoto gallery with albums, just use “ZenphotoPress” in wordpress.

First, create a wordpress site.

Then install “ZenphotoPress” using the plugin menu.

Once installed, you need to go to the “ZenphotoPress” setup (under “Settings”) to point to your Zenphoto gallery.

Then all you need to do is to edit / create a post.

At the top of the edit screen, you’ll see a “ZenphotoPress” button. If you press this button, you select the album, the thumbnail you want to use on the page, and so on.

You will need to know a little HTML to fine-tune your view. But, that’s all there is to it.

Here’s my gallery. I used “ZenphotoPress”. Take a look to see if this is what you want to do:
http://www.valaddsoft.com/PhotoGallery/

PS – If you want to protect your albums using passwords, create the wordpress link first, then add a password to the zenphoto album. That’s what I did, and you can see some albums are password protected.

Have fun! ;-)

By: nate

nate — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:16:07 +0000

I don’t have an example yet, but am hoping to get a gallery set up here soon.

By: Onore

Onore — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:49:03 +0000

Where is i can view a demo or work site..there wordpress+zenphoto works together?
Sorry for my english =)

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:08:23 +0000

@Alejandro-
You can temporarily do
var_dump($_SERVER);
to see all of the different global server things available. you want to pick the one that takes you from the root directory / to /www
Let me know if you have any other problems.