[@dallasclark Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

@Gpo1 When I do the Twitter integration, it will be customisable on what you want it to tweet on your Twitter stream, I will take your suggestion as the default setting

[@dallasclark Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

@Gpo1 I’m thinking of setting up a checkbox for the photos/albums so you can post a link to your Twitter stream automatically like TwitPic does.

eg: “http://snu.rl/dklfsj Photo Title”

It will be done in the 2nd phase of the plugin, I only want to concentrate on the core of the plugin at the moment.

[@dallasclark Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Contact me via http://www.dallasjclark.com for any “motivational” gestures.

I want to have this plugin completed to my standards by the end of the month, so fingers crossed I get time to make that commitment.

[@dallasclark Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Still coming along, haven’t had much attention to it over the last couple of days. I’ve had other work become a high priority.

[@dallasclark Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

@Gpo1 so would you expect the plugin to post the permalink to Twitter with a caption (if any)

[@dallasclark Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

hmmm, one thing that really needs to be fixed up on the comments section are the addslahes to the apostrophes etc

[@dallasclark Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Hi Enlightenmental1,

The functionalities/features of the Photo Album plugin so far are:-

* Create unlimited number of albums

* Inserted unlimited number of photos into each album

* Album Cover Selector

* User comments per album and per photo

* Owner of the album/photo can moderate all comments

* Users can alter their own comments in the album/photo

* Automatic image resizing and optimisation

* Permalinks to albums and photos

My plan (which can change) is as follows (in no particular order):-

* Twitter Integration

* JavaScript Thumbnail Cropping

* Create an AJAX driven interface – but only when the main extras of the plugin are complete (easier this way and for SEO reasons)

* Website Administrator Settings – number of albums, photos users can have, and/or user upload limits.

* Handle other media like videos.

I generally don\\\’t like to release a unfinished product until it\\\’s stable enough in my own opinion, otherwise it\\\’s too hard to administrate feedback and ideas when I know some little parts are broken here and there.

However, if anyone would like to get a glance at the plugin first, drop me an email though my website (http://www.dallasjclark.com/contact.php) or directly here on BP.

In the future:

I will be happy for other developers to make improvements or the general public to submit ideas, however every line of code will be moderated and thoroughly checked. The licence of the plugin will be GPL sometime soon.

Donations:

I have in the past tried to do things for free, however when you have a home loan to pay and a family to look after, doing work for free isn\\\’t as easy. Especially when I have an endless number of projects lined up that will pay me.

The plugin I\\\’ve created so far, already has a sponsor but only a small one. I\\\’m working on this plugin 3 hours a week, and both the sponsor and I would like to see more. I\\\’m not asking anyone to fork out hundreds of $\\\’s (would be nice and I would only ever be so kind) but it would be great to get a few dollars here and there.

For anyone\\\’s interest for my credibility, these are some of the projects I\\\’ve worked on and currently working on.

Free Projects (see I did do some free work )

* Particls – http://www.particls.com

* Peepel – http://www.peepel.com (25% of my development time was paid for)

Paid Projects

* WOMF – http://www.womf.com – In Particular v3 (http://cairns.womf.com)

* Fitnice – Gym / Club Membership Management and Billing Software – converting to Adobe AIR and iPhone shortly.

There are more projects but some of them are private and cannot be discussed.

Any further queries, let me know.

[@dallasclark Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

@Gpo1 I can make the feature in stages, to begin with it has all the simple essentials. I can then enhance it over time and prioritise features you all want.

Sure, Twitter integration is only a couple of hours work.

[@dallasclark Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

also,

modifying my current plugin to do videos as well will be a piece of cake

[@dallasclark Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

I’ve already started on a photo albums plugin and about 50-70% through the development. Just have some small tweaks, however I believe I can quite easily put it into the core of Buddy Press.

Send me a message if anyone’s interested in the plugin OR future development.

My CV is at http://www.dallasjclark.com for any other contact methods.