September 27th, 2006 by Al
WordPress Gallery Plugin
Posted in Plugins
We designed the WordPress gallery plugin to make it easy for a blog visitor to see a visual summary of all the latest posts. The idea is to help your visitors navigate as well as providing more internal linking which can help with search engine rankings.
Upon request the plugin will generate a new post that contains images and links to your most recent posts. The images are properly scaled thumbnails, which look better than just scaling using HTML and are also much smaller and faster to download. The generated post is saved as a draft so that you can edit it before publishing if so desired.
Version History
- 1.3 – April 18, 2007
- 1.2 – February 7, 2006
- 1.0 – Initial Release
Change Log
Version 1.3 – Download
- Changed the image quality for png from 100 to 9, this should work with all PHP versions
Version 1.2 – Download
- Tested to ensure it works with WordPress version 2.1
- Added support for non CURL installations
- Added debug mode to help with diagnostics
Version 1.0
- At this time the gallery plugin has only been tested with version 2.04 of WordPress. You are more than welcome to try it with earlier (or later) versions, if you experience any problems please post a comment here (with a valid email address) and we’ll try to help you out.
Installation
- Download thumbnailsummary.zip
and unzip the 3 source files: st-thumbnail-creation.php, st-thumbnail-summary-options.php and st-thumbnail-summary.php - Upload all files to your plugin directory
- Log in to your WordPress Admin Screen and go to Plugins, find Thumbnail Summary and activate it
- That’s it.
Usage Instructions
- In order to generate a thumbnail summary log in to your WordPress Admin Screen and go to Write, next to Write Post and Write Page you should now see Write Thumbnail Summary, click this.
- On the Create Thumbnail Summary Page ensure that the options are correct, set the post title to what ever you choose and click Create Post and OK to confirm.
- The thumbnails and post should now be created and saved as Draft (so not visible on the blog yet). In order to publish the post you will need to edit it (either via the link at the bottom of the screen or go to Write Post and choose the latest draft) and click Publish.
Options
- You can change various options to make the thumbnails fit in with your blog. All available options can be found on the Options -> Thumbnail Summary page. All options are explained on that screen so I won’t repeat myself here.
Usage Examples
You can see the thumbnail summary in use at:
If you use it on your site, let us know and we’ll add a link to you to this list.
Any questions or suggestions please leave a comment here and we’ll do our best to help you out.
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October 11th, 2006 at 10:01 am
Hi, I’ve been trying to use this plugin on a site I’ve been doing , but it doesn’t create the thumbnails or the correct url to the thumbnail- I’ve followed the instructions to the letter, but it comes up with code like this:
Ref: A8 - Beach Apartment, Empuriabrava
as you can see it is not filling in the ‘img src’ url and a check of the wp-content/uploads folder shows that the thumbnails are not being created either- all of the posts on the site have an image, but the gallery is just showing up with the titles and no images. I’m probably missing something really obvious, but if you could point me in the right direction I’d be grateful as this looks like a very useful plugin.
thanks in advance
Guy
October 11th, 2006 at 10:03 am
sorry, it didn’t show the code properly in the above example, it should have been this:
Ref: A8 - Beach Apartment, Empuriabrava
October 11th, 2006 at 10:07 am
i want to post code so i am enclosing it between
andtags, and it’s just showing it as a normal url! aaaagggghhhh! please just email me if you can help. thanksOctober 11th, 2006 at 11:36 am
Hi Guy,
We’ll try to look at the problem for you. Meanwhile, Al is currently away for a while, hopefully he’ll back soon. We’ll get in touch with you via email.
Cheers!
October 11th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
Bonjour, i have the same problem than Guy. The directory was’nt good. My fold isn’t “wp-content/uploads” but “wp-content/uploads/2006/etc.
Sorry for my english. Yes i’m french
October 12th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
It’s perfect … but.
1. no tables if possible (only CSS and FLOAT …)
2. an option to choose this vision of last post on a category … example ? Perfect for http://www.le-hiboo.com.com/photos/ … your plugin would be perfect for this.
3. and … why not … show last post of xxx categories on the sidebar with for exaample … show the 10 last articles from categories 5, 4 and 3 …
A dream ?
October 13th, 2006 at 12:37 pm
I’ve emailed everybody that has reported a problem and will try to get to the bottom of this. I think I know what the problem is related to how different WP versions store paths in the database so I’ll also work on a version that copes with the differences. If anybody is having problems and has not received an email from me then leave a comment here.
October 14th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
New version has been uploaded that will hopefully cope with the problems reported so far (if not please let me know here).
Rod:
1. Great idea though when ever I use CSS and float for the thumbnails I find it can mess up existing layouts, any ideas?
2. Could you explain a bit more what you mean by that
3. I have plans for a plugin like thing that will do just that
October 15th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
Because my wordpress is v2.0.2 ,i can not use it . and ,thx u!
October 16th, 2006 at 2:11 am
hi Al,
All is ok with the new version !
thanks for your help
a+
June 1st, 2008 at 2:00 pm
When I like to create new page i’m receiving error: “Cannot load st-thumbnail-creation.php.”
July 16th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
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October 13th, 2008 at 6:09 am
Got a couple of suggestions:
1) Ability to specify a date range from which the posts are generated. e.g. a summary for a particular month. (Very desirable for me)
2) Add code to deal with post titles that contain a quote (e.g. ‘) to strip out the slashes.
3) Redirect to the page displaying the post in edit mode, rather than just link to it.
Very nice.
December 11th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Hi- have a problem where changing the settings in the app dosent make a difference to the thumbnails. Also the thumbs are stuck at 100px in the gallery. Do you know what we’re doing wrong – need help!
Thanks.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
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January 28th, 2009 at 8:35 am
Hi Al,
I wonder if your plugin can do something similar to the following example:
http://www.contextual.cl. Take a look to Archivos and to the bottom of the page (the last post).
If your plugin or other plugin can do the same, can hoy help me with information?
Thanks,
Sergio
July 16th, 2009 at 12:52 am
In Wordpress 2.8.2 when I try to access st-thumbnail-summary-options.php from the settings tab in the admin interface I get the error “you do not have proper permissions to access this page”
is there a chance we can get fix so that the plugin works with latest wordpress ?
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/288584?replies=5
apparently it has to do with security issue. maybe this plugin is not up to date with latest security coding required of plugins for wordpress 2.8 and higher?
July 17th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Hi Tom, there is definitely a security patch introduced by the latest version of WordPress 2.8.1 that actually stops the plugin from accessing the admin menu.
Our developers are trying to fix this, hopefully in a few days’ time.
July 19th, 2009 at 11:14 am
I get this error when i try to access st-thumbnail-summary-options.php from the settings tab in the admin interface and im using WordPress version 2.6.3.
“Thumbnail Summary” link inside setting tab is: http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/st-thumbnail-summary-options.php
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Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
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July 28th, 2009 at 9:32 am
I agree with Dan’s suggestions and also want to suggest mine: the ability to display x number of posts from one or more categories! Keep up the good work!
July 28th, 2009 at 10:01 am
I upgraded WordPress 2.8.2
When I try to create a summary post, I get You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.
August 3rd, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Do you know when there will be a fix for “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”? Thanks
August 8th, 2009 at 2:18 am
I upgraded WordPress 2.8..1
When I try to create a summary post in admin panel, I get this error “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
August 22nd, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Al,
I also get the same problem “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page”
How can I fix it? I really loves your plugin and it increase SEO effects
September 28th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Does anyone work here? All I hear are crickets. LOL. Anyword on the Thumbnail plugin permission update?