Orangeninja » Design http://www.orangeninja.com Life, the Universe, and Everything In It Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:50:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Gallery Development http://www.orangeninja.com/2007/06/19/gallery-development/ http://www.orangeninja.com/2007/06/19/gallery-development/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:21:08 +0000 Frosty http://www.orangeninja.com/2007/06/19/gallery-development/ Being exasperated by the available offerings for photo gallery management within WordPress, I decided to do what every self respecting geek should do, and write my own from scratch. This way I can incorporate all the features I want, but at the same time keep it easy to use so it can be used by anyone.

I’ve spent far too long on this so far, but it’s been a learning experience, being my first delve into WordPress plugin development.

The planned feature list is: (probably a bit ambitious)

  • Images grouped into albums
  • Automatic retrieval of EXIF information
  • Tagging and comments system separate from main WordPress data
  • View tracking
  • Bulk uploading with zip files
  • Online image editing, including rotation and cropping. Possibly other features, once I look into GD’s capabilities
  • Full integration into WordPress frontend, with template tags and content tags
  • Added buttons in TinyMCE for inserting tags
  • Optional use of mod_rewrite for tidy URLs

How many of these features will make it into the v1.0 release is debatable, but I intend to get them all working over time.

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