BP Album+ || New Features Requests and Discussion
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If you need a free image gallery or photo album for BuddyPress, BP Album+ is probably the plugin you’re looking for. BP Album+ adds instant, FaceBook style photo albums to all of your user’s profiles.
You can always get the most up-to-date version from the WordPress plugin repository at this link:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-album/
Or, if you like living on the bleeding-edge of BuddyPress development, you can get the latest beta here:
http://foxly.ca/bp-album-1_6_BETA.zip
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This forum thread is for discussing new features the community would like to see in future releases of the BP Album+ plugin.
All ideas are welcome, no matter how crazy, bandwidth-intensive, or strange …but the final call on what goes into the plugin and when will be made by the development team.
Photos and user interfaces are a uniquely “visual” thing, so when posting an idea to this thread, please try to include a LINK to a website that’s doing the thing you want included in the plugin. For original functions that don’t exist *anywhere* yet, draw a sketch of your idea in a paint program and post a link to the image.
This will make it much easier for users that don’t speak English to understand your idea.
So, Let’s get started!
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Really excited about today’s pending beta release. You guys are making some smoking progress. After Albums we should sic yall on some other community features.
Good morning everyone!
Here’s the “Monday Beta”.
http://foxly.ca/bp-album-2010-03-22-BETA.zip
Now, a few important points about this release:
1) This is a BETA with a capital “B”. The “core” works, but many of the config options are still being set by hard-coded values. We figured you’d like something ugly that works more than you’d like something pretty that does nothing.
Unless you see something bad in the actual source code, please do not post to the forum saying “Feature X doesn’t work”. We’ll have a release out later in the week you can do that with!
2) The purpose of this release is to:
a) Demonstrate that we now have “multiple album” capability working.
b) Demonstrate that we have “member tagging” and “keyword tagging” working.
c) Demonstrate that we have disk-based image caching working
d) Introduce you to the concept of dynamically generated albums, based on tags
3) This release does NOT have a database upgrade routine written for it. To get it working, delete your bp-album plugin directory, copy these files in its place, deactivate the plugin, and then reactivate it.
If that *still* doesn’t work, and you are experimenting on a TEST INSTALL, drop the “bp_album” and “bp_album_meta” tables from your database, then deactivate and reactivate the plugin.
4) To evaluate the beta:
a) Upload ten photos to your album using the “upload photo” option.
b) Click on a photo you have uploaded, select “edit” and then add the tag “test 1” to the tag field.
c) Repeat for several other photos, using “Test 2, Test 3…, etc”
d) Go back to the main album screen. Note that on the upper right-hand side of the plugin canvas, photos have been arranged into albums based on the tags you have assigned them. Click on the text links to view them.
e) Click on any of your uploaded photos, click on the “edit” link, enter one or more user’s names in the “Member tags” field.
f) Log in as one of the users you have tagged, navigate to the photo that was tagged, and note that the active member is now tagged in that photo.
g) Go back to the main album page. Click on a different photo. Note how the second member can tag themselves in this photo.
This demonstration only shows a few of the things the plugin can do. It also has the ability to tag based on X/Y coordinates like Flicker and Facebook do, and it has the ability for photo owners to remove unwanted tags and members to un-tag themselves from people’s photos.
5) We’ll have a much better beta out by Thursday or Friday with a proper GUI on it. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy this beta and take the opportunity to experiment with the many new features we’re introducing!
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Im so impressed with the beta so far!
Tags: We need to have options for multiple albums by tag or my own created categories like a regular blog to organize posts both ways.
Member Tags: It worked… when you create tags then it produced as an album on another member’s my pictures which I have to click through twice to see the picture. It will be easier to click once to see the picture instead creating album if I happen to create my own album with same tag as other created then it will be displaying in my existing album. I think the multiple album need to avoid using tags.
Picture activity and comments: Its cool but not for each single upload if I want to place them under same album instead postin new activity for each picture. Everyone will lose their interests in activity section with lots of members uploading their pictures.
Upload picture: It took me a while to upload 10 photos using a single upload option
We must improve in this area to attract users to stay around instead going back to Facebook. It needs to improve when I upload multiple photos with my categories/albums instead tags because if I mistype the tag name then it create its own album instead the place where I want it to be in.http://deafnation.com/bpalbum.jpg: Check the link for the image. It doesn’t look good on bp default theme when I tried to post 9 images without tag so it created its own album without tag so anyway my theme already been fixed at 960px width and the photos screwed up around. I have an issue with Picture title in the menu/navigation of bp-album because if I create a title longer than it should and it ll not be looking good. It should be removed from that area to avoid messing it up with longer title
Whats the difference between scale and resize option? So far, the admin side looked good and so curious how it looks with facebook and flickr at my end!
We need to improve creating albums instead tags or display my tags (albums) under upload page instead trying to remember many different tags. We need to polish some features before adding new ones. Hope we ll be seeing a mobile upload feature someday. That’s all folks!
@Tosh – The annoying activity stream problem you are experiencing is being caused by the edits you have made to the CSS file on your website. Basically, you’re telling the browser “Take every entry in the activity stream and float it over to the left” Because the thumbnail is the tallest element in the div, it sets the effective width, not the text, and so you end up with the images “catching” on each other instead of bumping down to a new line. You can probably fix this by setting the width of the containing element to 100%.
This sort of thing is why we encourage users to only test the plugin on the default theme.
@calvinhsu – probably a good idea. Fairly easy to add using the image meta tags.
@Jedbarish – The FaceBook and Flickr templates improve the look of thumbnails with diverse aspect ratios by rigidly enforcing layout. The difference between scale and resize is that resize works on a square canvas and scale works on an arbitrarily defined one. You can have “Widescreen” thumbnails using scale if you want.
@pcwriter – Oh yes, the tag links will be replaced with a thumbnail of the gallery’s first photo. The text links were just for the beta. *Click on the arrow to the left of the tag*
@Anointed – It’s certainly possible. We’ll look into it after we get the rest of the core features implemented.
@Mike Pratt – Good point.
Oh, one other thing I forgot to mention. You guys noticed that you could re-order your albums by clicking on the “arrows” below the thumbs, right?
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